Remscheid, a town of Rhenish Prussia, 6 miles S. of Elberfeld-Barmen, carries on extensive manufactures of iron wares, cutlery, &c. Pop. (1871) 22,017; (1880) 30,029; (1890) 40,500.
Remscheid,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 639
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