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MönchengladbachGermany Germany,
facts and history in brief Mönchengladbach is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located west of the Rhine half way between Düsseldorf and the Dutch border. Population: 266.684 (status 09/2004). The original name of the city was Gladbach, which is even today often applied to the town. To distinguish the town from another town of the same name (the present Bergisch Gladbach) it took the name München-Gladbach in 1888. This spelling could lead to the fallacy, that Gladbach is a borough of Munich (München in German). So the name was changed to Mönchen Gladbach in 1950 and Mönchengladbach in 1960. The origin of the town was an abbey founded in 974. It was named after the Gladbach, a narrow brook, that runs subterraneously today. The abbey and adjoining villages became a town in the 14th century. Nearby the town of Rheydt was located, which is today incorporated in Mönchengladbach. Mönchengladbach is home of the football club Borussia Mönchengladbach and the philosopher Hans Jonas was born there. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details). About Wikipedia Disclaimers Hui Chin and I visited Mönchengladbach while we were travelling around the neighbourhood, like Münster, Dortmund, Wüppertal, Essen, Düsseldorf, Cologne and of course Mönchengladbach.
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