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Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyElberfelder Straße 39 (2) (Remscheid), Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyBirgdener Berg 12 (Remscheid), Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyRenaturierter Teufelsteich (Remscheid), Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyElberfelder Straße 116 (2) (Remscheid), Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About Remscheid

The man who discovered X-rays was born here, and Remscheid has never forgotten it. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen came into the world in 1845 in Lennep, today part of the city, and a museum dedicated to his discovery stands a short walk from his birthplace in the slate-clad old town.

Remscheid sits high on the hills of the Bergisches Land, between Wuppertal, Solingen and Cologne, and made its name forging tools. For centuries small workshops along the streams hammered out saws, files and blades, a story told in the German Tool Museum. The steep, wooded valleys around the city also hold two of Germany's earliest drinking-water dams, and the soaring iron arches of the Müngsten Bridge cross the Wupper on the city's edge.

Lennep's narrow lanes of black-and-white houses with green shutters are the place to begin, followed by the Röntgen Museum. Walkers can loop around the quiet reservoirs, while the tool museum and the view of Germany's highest railway bridge round off a day that suits anyone curious about science and industry.

Best seasonMay to October for walks around the reservoirs
Ideal stayOne day
ArrivingRegional trains to Remscheid Hbf and Remscheid-Lennep, linking with Wuppertal and Solingen

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Deutsches Röntgen-Museum, Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Deutsches Röntgen-Museum

In the Lennep district, this museum explains the discovery that Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen made in 1895 and how X-rays went on to tran...
Deutsches Werkzeugmuseum, Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Deutsches Werkzeugmuseum

Remscheid's long history as a tool-making centre comes alive in this museum in the Hasten district, where water-driven hammers, fo...

History 1

Röntgen Birthplace Lennep, Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Röntgen Birthplace Lennep

The slate-clad house where the physicist was born in 1845 stands on a small square in Lennep's old town and has been restored as a...

Neighborhoods 1

Lennep Old Town, Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Lennep Old Town

Lennep's compact historic core is a fine example of the Bergisch style, with black slate facades, white window frames and green sh...

Nature 2

Eschbachtalsperre, Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Eschbachtalsperre

Completed in 1891, this was the first dam in Germany built to supply drinking water, and its curved stone wall became a model for...
Panzertalsperre, Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Panzertalsperre

Built in the early 1890s in a wooded valley near Lennep, this small reservoir was among the earliest of its kind in the region, an...

Landmarks 1

Müngsten Bridge, Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Müngsten Bridge

Spanning the deep Wupper valley between Remscheid and Solingen, this steel arch railway bridge rises about 107 metres above the ri...

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