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Elberfeld is a municipal subdivision of the German city of Wuppertal ; it was an independent town until 1929 . HISTORY The first official mentioning of the geographic area on the banks of today's Wupper River as "elverfelde" was in a document of 1161 . Etymologically, "elver" is derived from the old Lower German word for "river." (See etymology of the name of the German Elbe River; cf. Scandinavian älv). Therefore the original meaning of "elverfelde" can be understood as "field on the river." Elverfelde received its town charter in 1610 . In 1726 Elias Eller and the pastor Daniel Schleiermacher founded a Philadelphian society. They later moved to Ronsdorf in the Duchy Of Berg , becoming the Zionites , a fringe sect. In 1826 Friedrich Harkort , a famous German industrialist and politician, had a type of suspension railway built as a trial and ran it on the grounds of what is today the tax office at Elberfeld. In fact the railway, the Schwebebahn Wuppertal , was eventually built between Oberbarmen and Vohwinkel and runs through Elberfeld. In 1888 the district of Sonnborn was incorporated into Elberfeld. In 1929 the towns of Barmen , Elberfeld, Vohwinkel, Cronenberg and Ronsdorf became a municipal entity officially called "Barmen-Elberfeld;" in the same year, the unified city administration through a vote of its council members decided to rename the newly-incorporated city "Wuppertal." This took place in 1930 . Today Elberfeld is the largest municipal subdivision of Wuppertal. SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE TOWN
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