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    closed in January 2024. Max Creutz: Das Warenhaus Tietz in Elberfeld, von Prof. Wilhelm Kreis …. X. Sonderheft der Architektur des XX. Jahrhunderts. Ernst...
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  • a Kreis (district) in the middle of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring are the Ennepe-Ruhr, Rhein-Kreis Neuss, Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis and...
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    Mündelheim [de] Haan, Hilden Gräfrath, Wald, Ohligs, Solingen, Höhscheid; Barmen, Elberfeld Ronsdorf, Cronenberg, Remscheid The latter seven groups are collectively...
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  • Wolfgang Pagenstecher (category People from Elberfeld)
    German painter and heraldist. He was born in Elberfeld and died in Düsseldorf. Pagenstecher was born in Elberfeld, German Empire, on March 16, 1880, as the...
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    Rheinlandes / Bd. 2. Kreis Bergheim, 1969 Das fränkische Gräberfeld von Eick, Berlin, 1969 Die Ausgrabungen auf dem Kirchberg in Morken, Kreis Bergheim (Erft)...
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    Breckerfeld (category Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis)
    Breckerfeld is a town in the district of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, (Germany). It is located in the southeasternmost part of the Ruhr...
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    in earlier documents. Important places in the duchy were Gerresheim, Elberfeld, Solingen, Lennep, Radevormwald, Wipperfürth, Bensberg, Siegburg and Blankenberg [de;...
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    eurailpress-archiv.de. Retrieved 2021-06-28. "Kreis Viersen: Westverlängerung der Regiobahn (S 28)". www.kreis-viersen.de. Kreis Viersen. Retrieved 2021-06-28. "S11:...
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    Arno Breker (category People from Elberfeld)
    professionally as a sculptor in the new West Germany. Breker was born in Elberfeld, in the west of Germany, the son of stonemason Arnold Breker. He began...
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    Reichsgericht from 1922 to 1929. Walter Simons was born on 24 September 1861 at Elberfeld (today Wuppertal) in the Prussian Rhine Province. His family were Huguenots...
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    Haspe–Voerde–Breckerfeld Light Railway (category Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis)
    narrow-gauge railway linking the towns of Breckerfeld and Voerde with the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway at Haspe. Construction lasted from 1901 to 1906. The...
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    Radevormwald (category Oberbergischer Kreis)
    Radevormwald (German: [ˌʁaːdəfɔʁmˈvalt] ) is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of the oldest towns in the...
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    Fritz Roeber (category People from Elberfeld)
    Fritz Roeber (15 October 1851, Elberfeld – 15 May 1924, Düsseldorf) was a German illustrator, lithographer and history painter, associated with the Düsseldorfer...
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    1950, in Nötsch im Gailtal. Werner Berg, painter, born April 4, 1911, in Elberfeld, now Wuppertal, Germany, died September 7, 1981, in Sankt Veit im Jauntal...
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    the founders of Kampf & Spindler [de], a textile manufacturing firm in Elberfeld. In 1877, he graduated from the Gymnasium Arnoldinum in Steinfurt, shortly...
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    merchant families from Iserlohn. In Elberfeld in 1856 he married Maria Winkhaus (1838-1919), the daughter of the Elberfeld silk manufacturer Friedrich Winkhaus...
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  • the railway was transferred to the administration of the Bergisch-Märkisches Railway Company in Elberfeld and the administration in Aachen was closed....
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  • Ernst Bertram (category People from Elberfeld)
    Church Overseas merchant Ernst Bertram and his wife Johanne Müller in Elberfeld (today Wuppertal). He passed the Abitur in the spring of 1903 at the...
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    before so his ordination was full of mixed emotions. He first served in Elberfeld – now part of Wuppertal – as a chaplain and religious education teacher...
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  • which is now part of Wuppertal. He studied, among others, with Wilhelm Kreis in Düsseldorf. His architectural firm last ran a residential and office...
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    October 1916 in Leverkusen Hildegard Duisberg (* November 18, 1893 in Elberfeld, died 1964), daughter of Johanna Seebohm and Carl Duisberg, Director General...
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    Theodor Löbbecke (category People from Oberbergischer Kreis)
    depicted in early malacological literature. Löbbecke left the school in Elberfeld in 1837 and spent the next six years training as a pharmacist. In 1843...
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    Leopold Fleischhacker (category People from Schwalm-Eder-Kreis)
    presented entries in competitions for several war memorials, including Elberfeld (1921) and Düren (1928). For the southern wall of the Great Synagogue [de]...
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    Witten–Schwelm railway (category Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis)
    line, except for short sections at each end located in the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, a district in the southeastern Ruhr area in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia...
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    Ennepetal (Gevelsberg) station (category Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis)
    Ennepetal (Gevelsberg) station is a 160-year-old station on the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway built by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company. It is in the...
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  • Augustus Rauschenbusch (category People from Märkischer Kreis)
    worked mostly in the United States. He graduated from the gymnasium at Elberfeld, and at 19 went to the University of Berlin to study for the Lutheran...
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    Schwelm West station (category Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis)
    Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened on 29 May 1988 on a section of the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway from Döppersberg, near the current Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof...
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  • Suidbert monument, sandstone, 3.40 metres high, on the Alte Hardt in Elberfeld (not preserved). 1860: Sandsteindenkmal des Reitergenerals Friedrich Wilhelm...
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    a Confessing deanery synod (German: Kreis-Bekenntnissynode), electing a deanery brethren council (German: Kreis-Bruderrat). If the superintendent of...
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    Letmathe–Fröndenberg railway (category Buildings and structures in Märkischer Kreis)
    Century the BME began to provide connections from its main line, the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway, to isolated places in the western Sauerland. First,...
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