Bockum (Düsseldorf)
Bockum is a part of the Wittlaer district of Düsseldorf .
location
The Bockum settlement is located on the east bank of the Rhine at river kilometer 761 and thus in the northwesternmost area of the Düsseldorf city area. In the south, Bockum has grown together with Wittlaer today . To the north are the remains of the old fishing village of Rheinheim , a district of the southernmost Duisburg district of Mündelheim .
Naming
The place name is derived from beech and home / house and thus refers to a settlement in the large beech forest that used to exist in the area between Düsseldorf and Duisburg.
history
Bockum celebrated its 700th anniversary on September 25, 2010. The count goes back to Bockum's first documentary mention in 1310. A Hermann, mayor of Bockum, appears as a witness in the deed of St. Gereon Abbey .
Bockum to 1929 was an independent for centuries Honnschaft , like the adjacent Wittlaer was essentially a settlement of the Rhine fishermen and farmers. In addition to a few large farms, there were many small cottages . Often the families living on these cottages also had to work as day laborers .
Along Bockums Rhine were to the 19th century Rhine barges towed . Then the towing of the barges was taken over by steamships. The steam barges often anchored off Bockum and the barge crews supplied themselves with food and other needs in Bockum.
The late 19th and early 20th centuries were the heyday as an independent municipality: Bockum had a number of craft businesses, gardening shops, a savings and loan office and a grocery store . The place became a destination for the residents of the surrounding cities of Duisburg and Düsseldorf, because this is where the excursion boats of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer docked. In 1907, Bockum was connected to the power supply. Well-known artists such as Eugen Kampf and Max Clarenbach as well as business personalities (Falk, Grolmann, Haniel , Lehnkering , Reuter, Scharrer, Zikesch) settled here.
Bockum remained dominated by agriculture until the 20th century. In 1855, for example, attempts to drill for hard coal were unsuccessful. It was not included in the Ruhr industrial area, which at that time already extended to Hüttenheim a few kilometers to the north . However, at the beginning of the 20th century, more precisely in 1910 and 1911, a waterworks was built in Bockum , many of which are still preserved today. Until this first plant was replaced by a new waterworks in Bockum in 1989, three steam piston pumps pumped drinking water into the Duisburg pipeline network. Today the water production of Stadtwerke Duisburg u. a. a lift gallery in Bockum.
One expression of the striving for independence in the 1920s was the establishment of the Bockumer Bürgererschützenverein and the organization of its own carnival parade. But church and school still had to be visited in Wittlaer. In 1929 the quest for independence came to an end: up to this point in time, Bockum belonged to the Amt Angermund , an administrative unit of the Duchy of Berg , which continued to exist even after the Duchy was taken over by the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1929 the southern parts of this office were incorporated into the newly renamed Prussian Office Ratingen Land (renamed Amt Angerland in 1950 ). The northern areas of Bockum, the Holtumer Höfe, were added to the municipality of Duisburg-Hamborn . The rest of Bockum was merged with the towns of Einbrungen, Froschenteich, Kalkum , Wittlaer and Zeppenheim to form the new large municipality of Wittlaer.
In 1936, Bockum was connected to the bus route between Krefeld and Essen.
At the end of the Second World War , in March / April 1945, when the Rhine formed the front line, a number of Bockum buildings were damaged.
Bockum today
In the post-war period, Bockum grew with many new buildings, especially after the municipality of Wittlaer was incorporated into the city of Düsseldorf on January 1, 1975. Wittlaer, and thus also the district of Bockum, are now part of the city district 5 under administrative law . Today, Bockum is a residential suburb with villas and is one of the most expensive residential areas in Düsseldorf due to its location on the Rhine and its manageability.
coat of arms
For the 700th local anniversary in 2010, the Bockumers gave themselves a new coat of arms. It shows a silver fish turned to the right on a blue shield and a golden beech leaf at the bottom right.
The fish was taken from the seal of councilor Alf von Bockum , who appeared in 1394 . The beech leaf stands for the beech in the place name.
People related to Bockum
- Eugen Kampf (1861–1933), painter and professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , brother of Arthur Kampf , lived in Bockum.
- Max Clarenbach (1880–1952), German painter and co-founder of the Sonderbund in Düsseldorf, lived in Bockum.
- Richard von Weizsäcker (1920–2015), German politician ( CDU ) and Governing Mayor of Berlin and Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1984 to 1994, lived in Bockum in the 1950s.
- Gunther Lambert (1928–2015), entrepreneur, designer and interior designer, lived in Bockum from 1970 to 2015.
- Charles Wilp (1932–2005), advertising specialist, artist, photographer and director of short films, lived in Bockum in the 1970s / 1980s.
- The painter Fritz Köhler is the namesake of the Fritz-Köhler-Weg.
Web links
literature
- Hans Stöcker (Ed.): Between Anger and Schwarzbach - History and stories from the former municipality of Wittlaer with the districts of Zeppenheim, Kalkum, Einbrungen, Wittlaer, Bockum and Froschenteich. 2nd edition, Düsseldorf 1976.
- Magdalena Kraemer-Noble: St. Remigius in Düsseldorf-Wittlaer (Rheinische Kunststätten, issue 185), 3rd completely revised. Edition, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-88094-864-X .
- Heinrich Lüssem: Wittlaer in view - poems. Düsseldorf 1996.
- HS: 700 years of Bockum . In: Nordbote, No. 17, volume 23 of September 24, 2010, page 9. (including a number of historical photos)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website Duisburger Versorgungs- und Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. for the day of the open monument in the Bockum waterworks
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 31.9 ″ N , 6 ° 44 ′ 7.4 ″ E