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Remscheid

American  
[rem-shahyt] / ˈrɛm ʃaɪt /

noun

  1. a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr region.


Remscheid British  
/ ˈrɛmʃait /

noun

  1. an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 117 717 (2003 est)

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Several recent portraits are at Regen, including a foundry worker in Tillmans’ hometown of Remscheid and another of actor Jodie Foster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

For Vaillant, a 150-year-old family-owned company in Remscheid that for decades has been a leading maker of gas boilers and furnaces, the push from Berlin comes at the perfect time.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2022

Jacobs, an exuberant woman born in Remscheid, Germany, launched the floral department in the grocery where she worked but dreamed of her own shop.

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2020

Tillmans was born in Remscheid, a manufacturing city near Cologne, where his parents ran a business exporting locally made tools to South America.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 3, 2018

As a boy in Remscheid, a small city in western Germany, he photocopied printed images and bought his first camera so he could obtain more material for the copy machine.

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2015

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