Oscar Hammerstein II Romberg; but he is best known for his collaborations with Richard Rodgers, as the duo Rodgers and Hammerstein which include "Oklahoma!", "Carousel", "South Pacific", "The King and I", and "The Sound of Music". Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was born in New York City, the son of Alice Hammerstein (née Nimmo) and theatrical manager William Hammerstein. His grandfather was the German theatre impresario Oscar Hammerstein I. His father was from a Jewish family, and his mother was the daughter of Scottish and English parents. He was raised Episcopalian. Although Hammerstein's father managed the Victoria Theatre for his father and was
Baumwollspinnerei Hammerstein changed in a 1930 referendum to Wuppertal (“Wupper Valley”). The Hammerstein manor house controlled much of the valley floor of the Wupper. In 1825 it gave its name to the in , that still stands on the "Hammersteiner Allee", and to a station of the suspension railway. Sonnborn itself gave its name to the on the autobahn 46 and autobahn 535. Downhill from the Villa Hammerstein, the businessman Johann Christian Jung built the weaving sheds and the cotton mill "Baumwollspinnerei Hammerstein" alongside the Wupper between 1835 and 1837. He included workers accommodation in the form of an apartment block. The