a town of Rhenish Prussia, government of Düsseldorf, on the Berne, and near the Cologne and Minden Railway, 20 miles N.E. of Düsseldorf. Pop. (1849) 8813. It is surrounded by walls; is the seat of a mining board and a municipal court of justice; and has several Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, an old Capuchin convent, a gymnasium, hospital, and orphan asylum. The town is thriving, and has manufactures of woollen and linen goods, fire-arms, steam-engines, iron and steel wares, leather, and vitriol. In the vicinity are some valuable coal mines.