Loerick

Lörick district of the state capital Düsseldorf
Basic data
Geographic location :	51 ° 15 ′  N , 6 ° 44 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′  N , 6 ° 44 ′  E
Surface:	2.55 km²
Residents:	7,608 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	2,984 inhabitants per km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1909
District:	District 4
District number:	043
Transport links
Bundesstrasse :
Light rail :	U 70 U 74 U 76 U 77
Express bus:	SB 51
Bus route:	828 833 836 863 M 2 M 3
Night traffic:	805

Lörick is a district on the left bank of the Rhine in Düsseldorf and belongs to district 4 . The strong contrasts between the rural idyll and an office district densely built with high-rise buildings characterize the district.

geography

location

The right on the Rhine lying area adjacent to the Düsseldorf districts Niederkassel , Oberkassel and Heerdt , and to the district of Büderich the city Meerbusch and is commonly on the peeling Sitt of Dusseldorf.

Development and use

Part of Lörick is essentially suburban, predominantly with one and two-family houses of high standard. The old town center, Alt-Lörick, has a village character. New buildings have to adapt to the formative townscape.

Former sign pointing to the recreation center in Loerick

In contrast, there is the Seestern office area with numerous high-rise buildings that provide work for 10,000 people on around 450,000 m². Numerous companies from the communications industry and Japanese companies have their headquarters here. There are also five hotels with around 1,500 beds. Lörick is home to 9% of the available overnight accommodation capacity in Düsseldorf and around 5.5% of the state capital's total office space.

Lörick is also known as an excursion destination for its popular recreation area with an outdoor swimming pool, sports harbor and campsite. The "Strandbad Lörick" with an outdoor pool and large meadows is located directly on the Rhine with the address Niederkasseler Deich. The so-called Paradieshafen, the Lörick sports harbor, is located north of the lake by the open-air swimming pool and is connected to it by a puncture. Both are actually part of an arm of the old Rhine, but received their current shape through gravel.

history

Alt-Loerick

Seestern office area

Archaeological finds

An early medieval burial ground, from which burials near Ilvericher Straße were recovered in 1950 and 1957, testifies to the beginnings of Lörick. The graves began as early as the middle of the 5th century, the most recent finds date from around 700 AD. Remarkable is a man's grave from the second half of the 5th century with a special sword, which experts use after the metal fittings the sword scabbard is called "Oberlörick-Samson-Abingdon type".

Early history

The Dusseldorf city district 4, to which, in addition to Lörick, also Niederkassel, Oberkassel and Heerdt belong, essentially corresponds to the area of ​​the rural community of Heerdt, which was first mentioned in a document in the 9th century. Lörick, originally probably called Luriche or Lurike, was an area populated by only a few farms, which developed into a hamlet by the beginning of the 19th century and belonged to the parish of Heerdt.

Lörick was listed in a document from 1300 as "Niederlörick". In this document, Arnold, Herr von Randerath , sold a farm to the Meer Monastery , which was named "Zilles-Hof" in 1400 after its tenant at that time. Since this area on the left bank of the Rhine was under the Archbishop of Cologne until the end of the 18th century, the village in the loop of the Rhine was oriented towards the hinterland on the left bank of the Rhine for centuries.

Until 1794 it belonged with Heerdt to the Amt Linn and then until 1814 to the Canton Neuss. This affiliation to Heerdt changed shortly at the beginning of the "Prussian Era" on the Lower Rhine. In an investigation from 1817 it was listed as a village under "Niederlörick", which was co-administered by the Büderich mayor's office in the Neuss district. In addition to Heerdt, “Obercassel” and “Niedercassel” also belonged to this mayor's office.

In a description of the Düsseldorf administrative district from 1836, the village is again listed as "Oberlörick" in the Heerdt mayor of the Neuss district. At that time, 370 people lived in the villages of Niedercassel, 209 people in Obercassel and 165 people in Oberlörick. At the beginning of the 20th century, a distinction was made between "Niederlörick" and "Oberlörick". In an official publication from 1915 Niederlörick was listed with the Löricker Feld in the municipality of Büderich and only Oberlörick belonged to the incorporated area of ​​Düsseldorf.

Orientation towards Düsseldorf

Anvil area in Loerick . The square was inaugurated in 1910 and is a reminder of the heavy industry in the urban area on the left bank of the Rhine, which existed until 1982.

With the construction of the first permanent bridge over the Rhine in 1898, Düsseldorf gained in importance for Heerdt - and vice versa. The number of inhabitants in the community of Heerdt rose by leaps and bounds as a result of the newly created residential areas in Oberkassel. At the instigation of Nikolaus Knopp, the local council enforced the incorporation into Düsseldorf in 1909. The long-established residents put up a lot of resistance. One of the demands of the representatives from Heerdt for the incorporation was that the city of Düsseldorf promised to induce the Rheinbahn not to deteriorate the “Düsseldorf-Heerdt-Lörick” small train connection.

In the 20th century, Lörick was an important location for the local heavy industry , and the Krieger steelworks moved there in 1898 . After the global economic crisis , Ruhrstahl AG took over the plant. It later became the Thyssen Foundry . In 1982 the foundry was closed and heavy industry disappeared completely from the district on the left bank of the Rhine. The anvil square with the monument of the same name is a reminder of this time.

Both Lörick and Ober- and Niederkassel belonged to the historical parish of Heerdt. The division and separation from the parish “St. Benedictus ”in Heerdt did not take place until 1955, when a new independent parish called“ Maria, Hilfe der Christisten ”was formed in Lörick.

In 1957 the north bridge was opened to traffic, which was renamed Theodor-Heuss-Brücke six years later . From 1960, and especially in the 1970s, the “ Seestern ” office complex was built . The Lörick outdoor pool was completed in 1961.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Office for statistics and elections of the state capital Düsseldorf: Statistics for the district 043 - Lörick
2. ^ The Seestern office location, Office for Economic Development of the State Capital Düsseldorf, 2nd edition, February 2005
3. ^ Kurt Böhner: Franconian graves of Oberlörick in the city of Düsseldorf. Bonner Jahrbücher 151, 1951, pp. 312–319. - Joachim Werner, On Franconian Swords of the 5th Century (Oberlörick - Samson - Abingdon). Germania 31, 1953, pp. 38-44. - Frank Siegmund: Merovingian period on the Lower Rhine. Rhenish excavations 34. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1998, pp. 84 and 341–346.
4. ↑ Boisserée, in: Annalen des Historisches Verein für den Niederrhein , 1855–1928, Cologne, p. [431] 425. Online version
5. ^ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet, in: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine and the Archbishopric of Cöln, document 1052 , 1840, volume 2, 1201-1300, p. [657] 619. Online edition 2009 [1]
6. ^ In: Description of the government district of Düsseldorf , 1817, Düsseldorf, Stahl, p. [206] 70. Online version
7. ^ Viebahn, Johann Georg von, in: Statistics and Topography of the Government District Düsseldorf, Second Part , 1836, Düsseldorf, Stahl, p. 150. Online version
8. ↑ In: Official Journal for the Government District Düsseldorf , 1915, p. [37] 33. Online version
9. ↑ In: Report on the status and administration of community affairs / The incorporations of the year 1909 , 1910, period April 1, 1909 to March 31, 1910, p. [34] XXXVI. Online version
10. ^ Anvil as a reminder of the steel industry, a newspaper article by Marcel Romahn. Published in the Rheinische Post on August 2, 2013. On the Rheinische Post website (accessed on January 31, 2019)
11. ↑ In: Official Journal for the Government District Düsseldorf , 1955, Volume 137, p. [227] 213. Online version

Web links

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