Rodgers and Hammerstein Rodgers and Hammerstein Rodgers and Hammerstein refers to composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together were an influential, innovative and successful American musical theatre writing team. They created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, initiating what is considered the "golden age" of musical theatre. Five of their Broadway shows, "Oklahoma!", "Carousel", "South Pacific", "The King and I" and "The Sound of Music", were outstanding successes, as was the television broadcast of "Cinderella" (1957). Of the other four that the team produced on Broadway during their lifetimes, "Flower Drum Song" 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