Solingen: City of Blades
Solingen enjoys worldwide fame as centre of the German cutlery and flatware industry. Naturally the city is home to a cutlery museum, the ‘German blade museum’. Solingen is connected to Remscheid by the Müngsten Bridge, which is still today Germany’s highest railway bridge.
More information (in German): http://www2.solingen.de/C12572F80037DB19/html/8AFBE29622F663D8C12573B50048BF46?OpenDocument&nocache=1
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