Barmen is a former industrial metropolis of the region of Bergisches Land , Germany , which merged with four other towns in 1929 to form the city of Wuppertal .
6-642: Barmen, together with the neighbouring town of Elberfeld founded the first electric suspended monorail tramway system, the Schwebebahn floating tram . Barmen was a pioneering centre for both the early Industrial Revolution on the European mainland, and for the socialist movement and its theory. It was the location of one of the first concentration camps in Nazi Germany , KZ Wuppertal-Barmen , later better known as Kemna concentration camp. Oberbarmen (Upper Barmen)
12-571: A pastor, Daniel Schleyermacher, founded a Philadelphian Society . They later moved to Ronsdorf in the Duchy of Berg , becoming the Zionites , a fringe sect. In 1826 Friedrich Harkort , a famous German industrialist and politician, had a type of suspension railway built as a trial and ran it on the grounds of what is today the tax office at Elberfeld. In fact the railway, the Schwebebahn Wuppertal ,
18-533: Is named in its honour, celebrating the 1934 Synod which issued the Barmen Declaration defining Protestant opposition to National-Socialist ideology. 51°16′N 7°12′E / 51.267°N 7.200°E / 51.267; 7.200 Elberfeld Elberfeld is a municipal subdivision of the German city of Wuppertal ; it was an independent town until 1929. The first official mentioning of
24-479: Is the eastern part of Barmen, and Unterbarmen (Lower Barmen) the western part. One of its claims to fame is the fact that Friedrich Engels , co-author of The Communist Manifesto , was born in Barmen. Another of its claims is the fact that Bayer AG was founded there by Friedrich Bayer and master dyer Johann Friedrich Weskott with the express purpose to erect and operate a dyeworks . The asteroid 118173 Barmen
30-490: The geographic area on the banks of today's Wupper River as " elverfelde " was in a document of 1161. Etymologically, elver is derived from the old Low German word for "river." (See etymology of the name of the German Elbe River; cf. North Germanic älv .) Therefore, the original meaning of "elverfelde" can be understood as "field on the river." Elverfelde received its town charter in 1610. In 1726, Elias Eller and
36-480: Was eventually built between Oberbarmen and Vohwinkel and runs through Elberfeld. In 1888 the district of Sonnborn was incorporated into Elberfeld. In 1929 the towns of Barmen , Elberfeld, Vohwinkel, Cronenberg and Ronsdorf became a municipal entity officially called "Barmen-Elberfeld;" in the same year, the unified city administration through a vote of its council members decided to rename the newly incorporated city "Wuppertal." This took place in 1930. Today Elberfeld
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