Holthausen (Düsseldorf)

Holthausen district of the state capital Düsseldorf
Basic data
Geographic location :	51 ° 10 ′  N , 6 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′  N , 6 ° 50 ′  E
Height:	41  m above sea  level
Surface:	5.34 km²
Residents:	12,844 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	2,405 inhabitants per km²
Incorporation :	August 1, 1929
District:	District 9
District number:	093
Transport links
Light rail :	U 71 U 74 U 77 U 83
Bus route:	724 789 835 M 3
Night traffic:	NE 7 817

Elbroich Castle

Holthausen is a district of Düsseldorf , the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

The district has about 13,000 inhabitants. It is located in the south of Düsseldorf and belongs to the city district 9. In the west it borders on the district Itter , in the north-west on Wersten , in the north on Eller , in the east on Reisholz and in the south-east on Benrath .

history

Until the incorporation in 1929

The first settlements of Celts or Teutons in the area are believed to have been in the 9th century BC, and permanent settlement since the 1st or 2nd century AD.

In a court survey of the regional courts in the south of Düsseldorf in 1555, 5 courts were cited. Two of these five are Ordenbach and Hemmelgeist . For the composition of these two after a union to a common regional court it was stated: “ Ordenbach, It, uf Ordenbach seint 3 Scheffen and a clerk. Is a honschetzt (locality) Ordenbach. Hemmelgeist has the bailiff, 4 Scheffen and a clerk and vunff hondschafften : 1. Benrod, 2. Itter, 3. Hemmelgeist, 4. Wersten, 5. Holthusen ”. This court investigation thus contains one, if not the oldest use of the name Holthausen and confirms an existing locality.

Older dates than those of the village have been handed down from the knight's seat Haus Elbroich , which was of great importance for the development of the area around Holthausen in the Middle Ages. In 1189 Arnold von Tyvern transferred his extensive property to Count Engelbert von Berg . He gave some of these goods to various sexes in his domain. These goods also included lands in the south of Düsseldorf. In the 15th century the Lords of Elner (Eller) owned extensive estates, including Elbroich. In 1447 the brothers Heinrich and Johann divided the property. Heinrich von Elner received the Eller house with hereditary forest count office in the Bilker and Reisholzer districts. Johann von Elner became the owner of Elbroich, an allodial property (no fiefdom), and the hereditary forester's office in the Reisholzer district.

House Elbroich fell back to Duke Wilhelm von Jülich-Berg in the 15th century . This transferred it to Christina von der Heiden. Via Arnold von Spythe, from 1492 Johann von Retrandt and from 1501 Engelbert von Retrandt, Georg von Neuhoff acquired the estate on April 10, 1589. Around 1600 he built the current castle house with tower and dug moats and ponds. The farm buildings of the estate, the Brückerhof, were erected in front of the gate bridge . 1617 inherits the son Jacob. After his death in 1656 his brother Kaspar Friederich von Neuhoff followed, and from 1677 his sister Magarethe, married von Etzbach . Their daughter, Marie Anne von Etzbach, was the last heir to Haus Elbroich from the von Neuhoff family at the end of the 17th century . She married Freiherr Wilhelm Dietrich von der Horst, whereby the "Herren von Horst" became owners. In 1769, Marie Anna von der Horst was the last of this family to inherit the estate. In 1802 she sold it to Carl Friederich, Baron von Wendt. Further owners were from 1804 the von Bertrab family, from 1852 the Trinkhaus-Heye family and from 1954 to 1989 the Caritas Association. The large park was acquired by the city of Düsseldorf in 1954 and has been open to the public ever since.

In addition to the knightly seat of Elbroich House, other larger goods in the Holthausen area are listed in old documents. Here are some of them:

• The Brückerhof: The name does not refer to today's northern 'Brückerbach', but to its location 'directly in front of the moat of Haus Elbroich'. As already mentioned, this courtyard was originally the farm building of the estate, which was separated from the manor house. In 1748, Adrian Wilhelm Hermann, Baron von der Horst renewed the farmyard from 1600 .
• The Kamper Hof: This free aristocratic farm was originally a Vorwerk of Haus Elbroich. In the first half of the 15th century, 'Johann von Kampe' ran the farm. About 100 years later, Mr. von Lützenrath “op syn Hoff zu Kamp” was named as the owner in the records of the Reisholz region .
• Niederheider Hof , originally called Heiderhof, Heyderhof or Hof zur Heyden and only named from 1814 to distinguish it from the Hof zu Oberheid Niederheider Hof : This farm was a knight-free farm. The owners are known: in the 15th century the von Sobbe or Zoppe family, then the von Plittersdorf family, Melchior Voets in 1685 , Krahe gallery director in 1778 and Baron Anton von Quast in 1791. Via Kaspar Uellenhorst in 1814 and then the Trinkhaus-Heye family, the city of Düsseldorf became owners in 1974. Today it is the center of a leisure facility and children's farm.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Holthausen and Itter formed the independent rural community of Holthausen-Itter, which was administered by the rural mayor Benrath. More details on the further history up to the incorporation to Düsseldorf in 1929 are given in the article Benrath ( here ).

From around 1929

Reisholzer Bahnstrasse, in the background the Henkel factory

After Henkel settled in 1900, Holthausen grew very quickly. New settlements were created for Henkel employees.

In the south, Holthausen borders the Rhine . There is the Reisholzer Hafen, which has been the second most important transshipment point for raw materials and goods to and from the Rhine shipping in Düsseldorf since 1901. As the most important traffic artery, the Kölner Landstrasse and Bonner Strasse (former Bundesstrasse 8 ) run through the area of ​​the district from northwest to southeast. The multi-lane Münchener Strasse built in the 1970s and tangent to the district in the west and south, the extension of the Reisholzer Bahnstrasse (also called Reisholzer bypass road) on the border with Reisholz, which was completed in 2006, and the Düsseldorf junction, which was built in the 1980s, relieve the Holthausener Strasse -Holthausen on the A 46 motorway in the north of the district, which better connect the port and industrial areas to the long-distance transport network.

The backbone of local public transport are the U74 and U77 trams , which end in the center of the district and connect Holthausen to Düsseldorf Central Station, the city center and the old town, and the U71 and U83 trams, which go to Benrath. The “Holthausen” stop is one of the most important stops in Düsseldorf. More than 15,000 passengers get on, off or transfer here every working day.

The largest industrial settlement in the district is the factory premises shared by the Henkel Group and the BASF Group, which is directly to the east of the district center and whose chimneys define the silhouette of the district. The headquarters of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA and the headquarters of several Henkel subsidiaries are also located there.

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  Henkelsiedung I residential high-rise (Bonner Strasse 14)

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  Residential buildings Henkelsiedlung II

In 1953 the Henkelsiedlung I was built on the 4 hectare area at Kamper Acker. A 32 m high, eleven-story high-rise residential building was built. It is the first and only skyscraper. In 1956, the Henkelsiedlung II was built on the 25 hectare area at Elbroichpark by Walter Köngeter and Ernst Petersen in the style of the garden city tradition of the 1930s.

The Reisholz power plant , built by RWE in 1906, decommissioned in 1966 and demolished in 1974, was located in the south of Holthausen and was at times the largest coal-fired power plant in the world. The high -voltage pylon of the Reisholz overhead line crossing is a bizarre thing , because the siding of the Holthausen substation runs under its legs. In the near future, a modern office and residential district including a sports harbor is to be built parallel to the Rhine from the former power station via the port and further upstream towards Benrath. In the north of the district, IKEA opened a furniture store in 2000 on an area previously approved by Henkel.

Culture and sights

St. Joseph

Tram U71 at the Düsseldorf-Niederheid stop

The park and Elbroich Castle to the west of the district center are well worth seeing . Although Holthausen does not have as large a park as the Schlosspark in Benrath , a visit to the Elbroichpark in Holthausen is recommended at any time of the year .

Also worth seeing is the Catholic parish church of St. Joseph , which was built in 1905. The solidarity with the Henkel Group is visible on the altar of the church, because the artist has inserted the handle towers into the image of the altar.

Customs are also intensively cultivated in Holthausen . The shooting festival always takes place on the first weekend in September. The most important sports facility is the Niederheid sports park on the southeastern edge of the district, which is the largest sports complex in Düsseldorf after the arena sports park . It is also the most important competition and training facility of the Verein für Sport und Freizeit von 1975 eV ( SFD'75 ), the largest sports club in Düsseldorf with more than 3000 members.

The Itter cemetery is located in the village .

schools

• Municipal Community Primary School - Adolf Klarenbach School
• St. Apollinaris Primary School - Holthausen location
• Municipal Catholic Secondary School - Itterstrasse

literature

• Manfred Schöne: Henkel 70 years in Holthausen , publications in the works archive No. 1. Henkel GmbH, Düsseldorf 1969.

Web links

Commons : Düsseldorf-Holthausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Office for Statistics and Elections of the State Capital Düsseldorf : Statistics for the district 093 - Holthausen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Office for statistics and elections of the state capital Düsseldorf: Statistics for the district 093 - Holthausen
2. ↑ In: Volume 15 ; Benrath historical, series of publications of the archive of the home community Groß-Benrath; P. 20.
3. ↑ In: Issue 9 ; Benrath historical, series of publications of the archive of the home community Groß-Benrath; P. 44.
4. ↑ In: Issue 9 ; Benrath historical, series of publications of the archive of the home community Groß-Benrath; P. 44.
5. ↑ In: Issue 9 ; Benrath historical, series of publications of the archive of the home community Groß-Benrath; Pp. 45-46.
6. ↑ In: Issue 9 ; Benrath historical, series of publications of the archive of the home community Groß-Benrath; Pp. 46-50.
7. ↑ Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 171, object no. 251 (Henkel-Werke housing estate).