Wilhelm Engels

Wilhelm Engels (* 1873 ; † 1953 ) was a local researcher and school principal from Remscheid . A number of publications about the Bergisches Land come from him . Among other things, he examined the Bergisch-Märkische Landwehr with the result that it is probably of late medieval origin. He contradicts the results of Jacob Schneider and Johann Viktor Bredt .

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• From the history of the Remscheid town church and its parish. , Verlag der Evangelischen Kirchgemeinde Remscheid 1926
• The Landwehr in the outskirts of the Duchy of Berg , In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein (ZBGV), 66th Volume, year 1938, pages 67-278, Martini & Grüttefien, Elberfeld
• The Elberfeld Landwehr. In: Mitteilungen des Bergisches Geschichtsverein, 1 (1932), pp. 40–43.
• The construction of the Bergische Landwehr. In: ZBGV 62nd Volume (1934), pp. 73-77.
• The Ibachtal-Leppetal Landwehr and the Frielingsdorfer Pforte. In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter (RV) 5 (1935), pp. 148–159.
• The Barmer Landwehr. In: ZBGV 63rd Volume (1935), pp. 78-90.
• Land forces and national borders. In: RV 9 (1939) 1, pp. 149-153.
• The free farm Kotthausen and the other saddle goods in the area of ​​the Beyenburg office. In: ZBGV 67th Volume (1939), pp. 20-28.
• Border disputes in the east of the Brandenburg office of Neustadt and disputes over the local military forces there (16th century). In: RV 13 (1948), pp. 200-205.
• The repair and expansion of the land defense in the Duchy of Jülich at the time of the Spanish-Dutch War. In: Journal of the Aachen History Association , 60 (1939). Pp. 189-199
• Together with Paul Legers: From the history of the Remscheid and Bergische tool and iron industry , Remscheid 1928