REMSCHEID

city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies along the Wupper River, in the heart of the Bergisches Land, a hilly, wooded district in the lower Rhine River valley. Mentioned in the late 11th century as an estate given to the Knights of St. John by the count of Berg, it was chartered in 1808 and absorbed the neighbouring towns of Lennep and Lttringhausen in 1929. Remscheid has interesting slate houses, one of which (Haus Cleff) serves as the local museum. Lennep, the birthplace of Wilhelm Conrad Rntgen, the discoverer of X rays, has a Rntgen museum. Southeast on the Alt River is the oldest dam for the supply of drinking water in Germany (1891). Remscheid has a substantial iron industry and specializes in tool manufacture. Pop. (1989 est.) 120,979.