City center (Düsseldorf)

City center district of the state capital Düsseldorf
Basic data
Geographic location :	51 ° 13 '  N , 6 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '  N , 6 ° 47'  E
Height:	44  m above sea  level
Surface:	1.77 km²
Residents:	15,008 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	8,479 inhabitants per km²
District:	District 1
District number:	013
Transport links
DB regional traffic :	RE 1 RE 2 RE 3 RE 4 RE 5 RE 6 RE 10 RE 11 RE 13 RE 19 RB 38
S-Bahn :	S 1 S 6 S 8 S 11 P 28 P 68
Light rail :	U 70 U 71 U 72 U 73 U 74 U 75 U 76 U 77 U 78 U 79 U 83
Tram :	701 704 705 706 707 708 709
Express bus:	SB 50 SB 55 SB 85
Bus route:	721 722 732 737 738 752 754 780 782 785 834
Night traffic:	NE 1 NE 2 NE 3 NE 4 NE 5 NE 6 NE 7 NE 8 805 807 812 817

Stadtmitte is one of the 50 districts of Düsseldorf and is located in district 1 . With 1.77 square kilometers and around 15,000 inhabitants, the city center is one of the densely populated districts. Stadtmitte is the economic center of the state capital. The district is bounded in the west by the old town with Carlstadt and in the east by the Cologne – Duisburg railway with the main train station . The city center is characterized by great contrasts, which can be seen in the formation of different, unofficial quarters. In addition to numerous offices, the district offers the highest concentration of retail stores in Düsseldorf, including four large department stores and three shopping centers. The most important shopping street is Schadowstrasse , which is one of the busiest and best-selling streets in Germany. Königsallee , Düsseldorf's luxury shopping street , is known nationally and internationally .

location

In the heart of the city center

City center is east of the old town and Carlstadt. Pempelfort borders in the north, Düsseldorf-Düsseltal , Flingern-Nord , Flingern-Süd in the east, Oberbilk in the southeast and Friedrichstadt in the south . The demarcations to the other parts of the city are often not even known to the locals. The southern border of the district is Graf-Adolf-Strasse , the eastern border is the Cologne – Duisburg railway with the main station. In the west, Heinrich-Heine-Allee and Kasernenstrasse separate the district from the old town with Carlstadt, and in the north the Hofgarten von Pempelfort, whereby the part of the park with the land crown and the area south of the axis of Reitallee belong to the city center.

Despite its small area, the structure of the Stadtmitte district is not homogeneous, as can be seen, among other things, in the land prices north of Worringer Platz between 2,600 and 3,200 euros per square meter, while barely a kilometer away on Königsallee values ​​of 13,000 to 40,000 euros per square meter (standard land value map, as of August 2020). As part of the Düsseldorf parking guidance system, the city has divided the city center into quarters. The “Kö”, “Hauptbahnhof” and “Schadowstraße” parking areas are all part of the Stadtmitte district. There are also several “unofficial” quarters that are known locally and whose delimitation is not always clear.

Banking district and Königsallee

The Königsallee at night with a view of the Deutsche Bank

The banking district comprises the three parallel streets in north-south direction, Kasernenstrasse, Breite Strasse and Königsallee. The branches of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank as well as the buildings of the former branch of Dresdner Bank , which now belong to Commerzbank, are located in this almost dozen street blocks . Until the 1990s, Düsseldorf was the seat of part of the board of directors of the three large German commercial banks. The former importance of the Düsseldorf branches is evident in their monumental architecture from the early days . Other important bank branches are Targobank , the traditional banking house Trinkaus & Burkhardt , Kreissparkasse Düsseldorf (which, to be more precise, is in Carlstadt), HypoVereinsbank and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ . Numerous management consultancies and large law firms are also located here. The Westdeutsche Zeitung and the Rheinische Post have large local editorial offices here and the headquarters of the Handelsblattverlag is located on Kasernenstrasse (also in Carlstadt). The banking district is a popular office location. The highest office rents in the state capital are paid here. The retail trade is concentrated on the east side of Königsallee. The district has two luxury hotels, the Breidenbacher Hof and the Intercontinental .

Japanese quarter

See also : Japanese in Düsseldorf

German-Japanese Center on Immermannstrasse

Around 450 Japanese companies are based in Düsseldorf and around 8,600 Japanese live in the Düsseldorf administrative district . In the area between Berliner Allee , Klosterstrasse, Charlottenstrasse and Graf-Adolf-Strasse there are numerous branches of Japanese companies on an area of ​​almost thirty hectares. The center of Japanese activities is Immermannstrasse. The “German-Japanese Center” was built here in 1978, which includes 12,000 m² of office space and the 600-bed Hotel Nikko. The center is the seat of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, the Consulate General and the European headquarters of the Marubeni Group. In addition to Japanese trading companies, banks, insurance companies, transport companies and advertising agencies, a wide range of Japanese service providers, restaurateurs and retailers have settled here. There are two Japanese supermarkets, several bookshops, video stores, specialty shops and Japanese doctors on Immermannstraße and in the neighboring streets. German service providers such as pharmacies, butchers, hotels or mobile phone shops have prepared special offers for the Far Eastern clientele. The Japanese quarter of Düsseldorf is well known in the German cosplay scene , as manga and anime lovers can find the latest magazines and films from Japan.

Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus

In recent years, numerous other Asian service providers and restaurants have set up shop in the Japanese quarter, especially Chinese and South Koreans, so that a wide range of East Asian everyday culture is offered in the heart of downtown Düsseldorf. While many Japanese families live in the Oberkassel and Niederkassel districts on the left bank of the Rhine , numerous Japanese employees on temporary assignments are housed in company apartments or specialized hotels in the city center.

Attractions

Square of German Unity in front of the Deutsche Bundesbank with the three sail fountain by Heinz Mack (1988), in the background the Johanneskirche

• Königsallee : a wide boulevard running in north-south direction with trees and Kö-Graben in the city center of Düsseldorf, also called "Kö" for short
• Hofgarten : Germany's oldest public garden , which has existed since 1769
• Wilhelm-Marx-Haus : built 1922–1924, one of the oldest high-rise buildings in Europe on Heinrich-Heine-Allee
• Bergischer Löwe : a bronze statue from 1963
• Playhouse : a new building designed by Bernhard Pfau in 1970 on Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz
• Düsseldorf Stock Exchange : a new building completed in 1970 on Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz
• State Central Bank
• Johanneskirche
• Dreischeibenhaus : built 1957–60, a 94 meter high office and administration building

traffic

Private transport

Several important main traffic axes lead in and through the district, but no streets of supra-local importance. Until it was demolished in 2013, a well-known traffic structure was an elevated road known as a millipede , which provided access to Berliner Allee , one of the busiest streets in Düsseldorf and the city's most important north-south axis. The district has around 20 parking garages, despite which there can be bottlenecks in the parking space supply at peak times. Parking on the street is almost everywhere chargeable or reserved for residents. With the exception of the Königsallee area, there are only rudimentary bike paths.

Transportation

All light rail lines cross the district underground. There is also a dense network of buses and trams. Important transfer points are the main train station and the Heinrich-Heine-Allee underground station , from which buses to the suburbs and neighboring cities depart. The Schadowstraße and Pempelforter Straße underground stations are also located on the new Wehrhahn Line, and offer transfer options to the tram .

Regional and long-distance rail transport

The Düsseldorf main station is used by 250,000 people every day and is a long-distance transport hub. This is where long-distance, regional and S-Bahn traffic meet. There are also transfer options to light rail vehicles, trams and buses.

See also

• Ludwig Kraus residential and commercial building

Individual evidence

1. ^ Office for statistics and elections of the state capital Düsseldorf: Statistics for the district 013 - city center
2. ↑ Commercial Real Estate Report No. 4 of August 31, 2007 (PDF, p. 5), ISSN  1860-6369 , accessed on February 20, 2016.
3. ↑ Düsseldorf parking guidance system
4. ↑ Japan's capital on the Rhine , duesseldorf.de, queried on March 26, 2008.
5. ↑ Japanese in Düsseldorf, website of the Japanese Consulate General, queried on March 26, 2008 ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Website of the state capital Düsseldorf: Districts: Niederkassel . Retrieved February 27, 2012

Web links

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

• Office for Statistics and Elections of the State Capital Düsseldorf : Statistics for the district 013 - Stadtmitte
• Website of the city of Düsseldorf: The financial district and the Königsallee