The convent church of St. Mary Magdalene was built in 1497 as a late Gothic hall church. It is part of the building complex of the Steinhaus monastery, which was partially rebuilt at the end of the 15th century. It was therefore used as a monastery church until the secularisation of the monastery at the beginning of the 19th century.
St Marien-Kirche is located in Schwelm, a town in Nordrhein-Westfalen to the east of the world famous City of Wuppertal.
The former Reformed Church, which dates from the end of the 17th century, is the fifth church on this site. The church was destroyed during the air raids on Wuppertal during the Second World War and rebuilt in the 1950s. In 1953, an upper floor was created for the YMCA by inserting a false ceiling. In 2002, the interior of the church was cut in half and a café was set up in the front part as a meeting place. Since then, the church has been called CityKirche Elberfeld.
The Reformed Church in Cronenberg was built from 1766 to 1771. It belongs to the type of Bergische Predigtkirche (Bergian preaching church) modelled on the Old Reformed Church in Elberfeld.
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