This city at a glance: – St. Paul’s CATHEDRAL – Prinzipalmarkt – Lambertkirche – salt Street – Prince Castle, seat and landmark of the Westphalian Wilhelms-University – historic town hall – Buddenturm – St. Mauritz Church – Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso in the Druffelschen Hof – promenade: green ring around the city centre of Cathedral. A brief overview of the history of the Bergisches Land, beginning cyclists main Bergisches Land in Roman times. At that time few Germanic farmers had settled in the present-day Bergisches Land.

A larger, comprehensive settlement of this area began but only from the 9th century AD. The floor of the Bergisches Land allowed no pronounced agriculture for that time, which meant that the settlers across rather settled a long time on livestock as on the agriculture. It was then Charlemagne who later commissioned gave his nobles to settle many smaller castles in the Bergisches Land and occupy the entire area. The later inhabitants of this land were often hard times to get through in the coming centuries. So they had to in addition to health risk Kien like plague and also man-made hazards such as looting by Dutch, Spanish and Sweden about endure to dysentery.

With the 18th century came the prosperity in the Bergisches Land. The changes also resulted in the typical type of House in this region: a Kombinationshaus from timber and slate. Troubled times came up for the residents with the occupation by Napoleon’s troops. These and also some disease waves later could survive but the residents despite great sacrifices. Today, the Bergisches Land is a preferred residential area for stressed-out city folk from Cologne or Dusseldorf. Many dams invite many day-trippers just on weekends, and even some dam manages to become the main backdrop of German film productions (Bevertalsperre). In many small typical villages in the Bergisches Land is large parts are slate to visit old town.