Coordinates: 50

° 58 N 7 ° 08 E / 50.967, Bergisch G ladbach, 7133 # 160;? / And is a city in Germany, North Rhine-Wes tphalia, the administrative center of the district Rheinisch-Berg ische Kreis. In the year 2006 numbered 110 016 inhabitants. Settl ement in the current Bergisch Gladbach, occurred as early as the thirteenth century, but the town received city rights only in 1856. In 1975 joined to the neighboring city of Bergisch Gladbach, Bensberg, two years later the population exceeded 100 000.