Barmen

Barmen is a umwhile industrial metropolis o the region o Bergisches Land, Germany, which in 1929 wi fower ither touns wis mergit wi the ceety o Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalie.

History
Barmen wis the birth-place o Friedrich Engels an thegither wi the neebourin toun o Elberfeld foondit the first electric suspendit monorail tramway seestem, the floatin tram or Schwebebahn. Barmen nivertheless haes an interestin history o its own acause it wis a pioneerin centre for baith the early industrial revolution on the European mainland, an for the socialist movement and its theory.

Barmen wis the location o ane o the first concentration camps in Nazi Germany an aw, KZ Wuppertal-Barmen, later better kent as Kemna concentration camp.David Magnus Mintert, Das frühe Konzentrationslager Kemna und das sozialistische Milieu im Bergischen Land  (PDF) Ruhr University Bochum, doctoral dissertation (2007), pp 144–145. Retrieved January 14, 2012 

Divers
The asteroid 118173 Barmen is namit in its honour, celebratin the 1934 Synod which issued the Barmen Declaration definin Protestant opposition tae National-Socialist ideology.

Historical population
 Year Population 1591  aboot 1,000 1640  aboot 1,900 1800  aboot 12,000 1810  16,289 1840  30,847 1 December 1875  86,504 1 December 1890  116,144 1 December 1900  141,947 1 December 1910  169,214 1 December 1919  156,326 16 Juin 1925  187,099

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Category:Wuppertal
Category:Umwhile municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalie