 wÃ¼lfrath is a town in the district of mettmann (district), in north rhine-westphalia, germany. ==geography== the town is situated on the mountain spurs of the bergische land, between the rhine, ruhr and wupper rivers. it is located in the central part of the berg region, approx. 12&nbsp;km northeast of dÃ¼sseldorf. the old town centre lies in the small valley of the anger, a brook which rises nearby and flows through the town. the newer parts of the town are built on the valley slopes. ==history== wÃ¼lfrath was one of the first settlements to be made in a clearing in the great imperial forest of the early middle ages. the name means clearing of a man named wolf and its date of origin is thought to be about 713. around this has grown up the legend of a settler called wolf who had been expelled from his clan and who is supposed to have made a clearing in the then luxuriant forest on the site of the present village centre. in 875 the hundreds (honnschaften) and present suburbs of flandersbach (flatmarasbeki, i.e., flattmar's brook) and rÃ¼tzkausen (hrotsteninghuson, i.e., the houses of hrotse's people) are named in a description of the places owing tithes to werden abbey on the ruhr. in around 1100 the placename wÃ¼lfrath (wolverothe) itself is at last mentioned in a document written in a monk's hand at the religious house at kaiserswerth. the boundaries are given in a deed of grant of the emperor henry vi dated 16 october 1165 as the courses of the rhein, ruhr and dÃ¼ssel (tussella) rivers. the eastern boundary was the old highway of the "kÃ¶lnische straÃe" (strata colonensis), which ran from the bridge over the ruhr at werden via velbert and wÃ¼lfrath along the dÃ¼ssel towards cologne. the centre of the mediaeval village was a demesne farm or manor (mollmershof), which as part of the lordship of hardenberg was sold to the counts of berg. possession of this manor, to which an extensive group of scattered farms belonged, particularly in the hundreds of erbach and [[pÃ¼t
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