A collage of landmarks from Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Sent by Birgit from Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Mönchengladbach (German: [mœnçn̩ˈɡlatbax]; Limburgish: Jlabbach [jəˈlɑbɑx]) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany, west of the Rhine, halfway between Düsseldorf and the Dutch border.
The original name of the city was Gladbach, by which it is still often known today. To distinguish it from another town of the same name (the present Bergisch Gladbach), it took the name München-Gladbach ('Monks’ Gladbach', in reference to the abbey) in 1888. Between 1933 and 1950, it was written München Gladbach' (short: M. Gladbach), without a hyphen. This spelling was seen as potentially misleading, as it could imply that Gladbach was a borough of Munich (German: München), so consequently the name was changed to Mönchen-Gladbach in 1950 (and subsequently Mönchengladbach in 1960) to avoid confusion (read more).
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