a town of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, io m. E. from Remscheid, on the branch line of railway from KrebsOge. Pop. (1905) 10,978. It consists of the town proper and of several suburbs, and has five Evangelical and two Roman Catholic churches. Its chief manufactures are skates, files, locks and similar articles, and it has also cloth and cotton factories.
See J. H. Becker, Geschichte der Stadt Radevormwald (Cologne, 1864).