Bergisches city triangle

city	Residents	Area (km²)
Remscheid	111,338	74.6
Solingen	159,245	89.5
Wuppertal	355.100	168.4
Bergisches city triangle	625.683	332.5

Bergisches Städtedreieck is a culturally and geographically coherent city region in the Bergisches Land ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), which is formed by the three adjoining cities of Wuppertal , Remscheid and Solingen .

The term originated from the older name Wupperviereck , which from the 19th century onwards characterized the location of the Mittelberg towns along the Wupper , whose course in this area largely formed the shape of a non-closed rectangle. When these individual cities were combined to form the three Bergisch cities in the first third of the 20th century, a new geometry was used: a triangle whose corner points were in the middle of the three cities and which largely coincided with the area of ​​the old Wupperviereck . This is how the term Bergisches Städtedreieck came about .

The term became more common in the second half of the 20th century, when the three cities decided to jointly organize parts of tourism marketing. A joint internet portal under this name presented tourist and cultural information about the cities. The concept was continued in the regional agency Bergisches Städtedreieck following the regional structural funding program Regionale 2006 , which was dedicated to the three Bergisch cities and which used the term Bergisches Städtedreieck a lot in the media . The regional as well as the following business development agency KompetenzHoch³ use an irregular triangle as logo, which is also intended to symbolize the city triangle.

In the past, the idea of merging the three major cities was brought up for discussion several times . For example, Jürgen Büssow, then President of the District of Düsseldorf, initiated the discussion. Together, the three cities have around 620,000 inhabitants and would be the second largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and before the state capital Düsseldorf and Dortmund . But Bussow's proposal could not win a majority in the state government and the mayors of the cities. Nevertheless, there is closer cooperation between the cities. The police have their central headquarters in the Wuppertal police headquarters . The professional fire brigade Wuppertal maintains a joint control center with Solingen, the adult education centers Wuppertal and Solingen merged.

Discussions about further amalgamation of municipal services have taken place and are still ongoing. At the beginning of 2010, the veterinary and food inspection offices of the three cities merged to form the Bergisches veterinary and food inspection office in Solingen. In addition, Wuppertal and Remscheid merged their telephone service centers in 2009, and Solingen followed in the spring of the following year.

Various organizations also form a joint district via these three cities, such as the Bergische Chamber of Industry and Commerce Wuppertal-Solingen-Remscheid .

In order to strategically control the issues and development tasks in the region and to coordinate them across departments and cities, the Bergische Entwicklungsagentur GmbH , based in Solingen, was founded on October 1, 2007 . The shareholders are the cities of Remscheid, Solingen and Wuppertal, the three municipal savings banks in the region, the IHK Wuppertal-Solingen-Remscheid and the Wuppertal Economic Development Corporation . The central tasks of the agency are the development and implementation of regionally important projects, the acquisition of funding as well as the positioning and profiling of the Bergisches Städtedreieck region. Subject areas are innovation and knowledge-based economy, urban and regional development as well as tourism and location marketing.

In 2012, the three cities founded the New Efficiency - Bergische Gesellschaft für Ressourceneffektiven mbH , in order to promote resource efficiency in the Bergisch city triangle and to position the region as an efficient and innovative location for this future topic.

Web links

• New efficiency - Bergische Gesellschaft for resource efficiency
• Bergische Regionalagentur Bergisches Städtedreieck
• Bergische Development Agency Bergisches Städtedreieck

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Bergische Superstadt Westdeutsche Zeitung of November 30, 1999
2. ^ Wuppertal puts pressure - partners are skeptical Westdeutsche Zeitung of November 30, 1999
3. ↑ 40 percent are in favor of the Westdeutsche Zeitung merger of November 30, 1999
4. ↑ City triangle merges veterinary offices Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) of October 30, 2008
5. ↑ ServiceCenter. Retrieved May 27, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Info page of the Bergisches Servicecenter at www.remscheid.de