Düsseltal

Düsseltal District of the state capital Düsseldorf
Basic data
Geographic location :	51 ° 14 ′  N , 6 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′  N , 6 ° 49 ′  E
Height:	38  m above sea  level
Surface:	2.90 km²
Residents:	28,141 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	9,704 inhabitants per km²
District:	District 2
District number:	023
Transport links
Bundesstrasse :
Light rail :	U 71 U 72 U 73 U 83
Tram :	706 708
Bus route:	725 733 737 752 754 756 758 776 834
Night traffic:	NE 2 NE 3 NE 4 NE 5 812

Düsseltal , formerly also Düsselthal , is a district in the city ​​district 2 of Düsseldorf , which originally developed around a monastery.

In the population of the district is often Zooviertel , or shortly zoo called, according to references the name of the S-Bahn -Station Dusseldorf Zoo on these frequently used district name. The cadastral designation is "Unterflinger Broich". Düsseltal extends over an area of ​​2.90 km² and currently (December 2016) has around 28,100 inhabitants. The district is particularly popular with families: they make up 16.5 percent of the district's population.

geography

Düsseltal is east of Derendorf and Pempelfort , south of Mörsenbroich , west of Grafenberg and north of Flingern . The district is bounded by the Cologne – Düsseldorf – Duisburg railway line , Grashofstrasse, Heinrichstrasse, Graf-Recke-Strasse (eastern part), Simrockstrasse and Grafenberger Allee.

history

The area between Düsseldorf and Gerresheim, which was independent until the 20th century, was sparsely populated until industrialization . Local rulers in the Middle Ages were the Hayc von Flingern family of knights . The oldest buildings in Düsseldorf are the two Speckerhöfe and the Buscher Mühle (named after Johannes de Buscho ). The mill was mentioned at the beginning of the 14th century. Today it is one of the few preserved, previously quite numerous grain mills along the Düssel .

Düsselthal Monastery , from which the Düsselthal rescue facility for orphans emerged , photo from 1904

Hunger Tower, remainder of the monastery building

In 1701 the Orval Abbey founded a new monastery complex in Düsseltal . Adam of Daemen , a canon of Cologne , presented the Cistercians - monks of the Abbey of Orval in gratitude for the new foundation in the same year the Rhine island Mönchenwerth , the south of Kaiserswerth was. This donation was confirmed by the Archbishop of Cologne Joseph Clemens on October 28 of the same year and by the German Emperor Joseph I on March 8, 1707. Due to raids and floods of the Rhine , the monastery was to be abandoned just a few years after it was founded. When the Elector Jan Wellem found out about the problems, he gave the monks the area of ​​the Speckerhof for a new building. This farm was in the east of Düsseldorf near Grafenberg . The canon of Daemen donated 3,000 Reichstaler for this new monastery building and construction began in 1708. In 1714 the monastery was elevated to an abbey . The monks were first called Speckermönche with regard to the former courtyard area . Later the name of the monastery changed to Düsselthal and gave its name to the current district.

Like many monasteries, Düsselthal was secularized at the beginning of the 19th century and auctioned on December 6, 1804. In 1822, the former monastery was acquired by Count Adelberdt von der Recke-Volmerstein for 45,000 thalers, who set up the Düsseltal rescue center for orphans on what is now Graf-Recke-Straße . In 1835 the count also founded the world's first deaconess institution in Düsseltal .

Little is known that Graf von der Recke has demonstrably operated an "Eau de Cologne factory" in his Düsselthaler establishment from 1837 on with a prescription license that he had bought. In an officially audited balance sheet from 1845, the proceeds are estimated at 487 thalers. The total expenditure on the other hand amounts to 14138 Thaler at the time, so that the contribution to the total financing is rather small. The Count uses the Düsseldorf scented water from the "distillation factory of the rescue institution" as an advertising medium in a Europe-wide donation campaign aimed at well-off supporters in the middle and upper classes. In the UK, supporters are arranging sales in London shops.   

On the land of the former Speckerhöfe, the Gutehoffnungshütte and later the mechanical engineering company "Haniel & Lueg", founded in 1872 by Ludwig (Louis) Haniel , Franz Haniel and Heinrich Lueg , were built during industrialization . Today the old under remembered monument standing clock tower at the premises of the iron foundry. This is where the workers entered the factory on Grafenberger Allee .

Entrance of today's zoo park, Brehmplatz

The frequently used name Zooviertel goes back to the zoological garden , which was located here from 1876 to 1943. The inspiration for a Düsseldorf zoo came from the well-known zoologist and animal writer Alfred Brehm . He was often a guest of the Düsseldorf animal welfare association Fauna , which built the zoological garden together with the municipal court gardener Heinrich Hillebrecht . The opening ceremony was on May 31, 1876. The zoological garden sank into ruins in 1943 during the Second World War. Until 1987 the district was still the location of a zoological institution; the air raid shelter opposite the former zoo housed the Löbbecke Museum and Aquarium with collections on "Two billion years of geological history ". Both facilities moved to a new building on Nordpark in the summer of 1987 ; the bunker was demolished in 2005 and replaced by residential buildings.

The large trade exhibition in 1880, which was visited by Kaiser Wilhelm I , among others, was also important for the development of this district . More than 3000 companies exhibited in 100 halls in Düsselthal, for which the green spaces were used.

Düsseltal today

Attractions

Pauluskirche and Paulusplatz

Bronze panel - center Düsseldorf ( 51 ° 14 '8.16 "  N , 6 ° 48' 37.43"  O )

ARAG Tower - at 125 m, the highest skyscraper in Düsseldorf

The most famous building in Düsseldorf beyond the city limits is likely to be the ice rink in the Zoopark on Brehmstrasse , where the DEG ice hockey team celebrated its greatest successes.

One of the oldest buildings in the Düsseldorf valley is the Buscher Mühle on Mulvanystraße. This watermill is now one of the few remaining flour mills along the Düssel that used to be quite numerous.

The hunger tower on Fritz-Wüst-Straße and the old monastery cemetery on Max-Planck-Straße are reminiscent of the old Trappist monastery and the Graf-Recke-Stiftung, which was located here until 1902 .

Furthermore , the Pauluskirche built by Josef Kleesattel at the beginning of the 20th century in neo-Romanesque style is well worth seeing. After the war, the Catholic Church, which was partially destroyed by bombing, was rebuilt in the ships using a slightly different construction method.

The Protestant Matthäikirche is the first church in Düsseldorf to have a steel frame construction.

The Melanchthon Church on Graf-Recke-Straße impresses with its playable carillon with 40 bells and a total weight of around six tons. The carillon is located in the outer frame of the church tower at a height of 25 meters.

The geographic center of Düsseldorf is on Hans-Sachs-Straße, the point is marked with a bronze plaque.

The ARAG Tower , the headquarters of the insurance group ARAG , is located at Mörsenbroicher Ei, and is the tallest building in Düsseldorf at 125 meters. The office building is characterized by four garden floors, which are used, among other things, for relaxation.

Transport connections and infrastructure

Düsseldorf-Zoo S-Bahn station

The S-Bahn stations Düsseldorf Zoo (located in the Pempelfort district) and Düsseldorf Derendorf (located in the Derendorf district) are located directly behind the district boundary. From there there is a connection to regional train services. The train lines 706 (D-Hamm - Brehmplatz - Am Steinberg), 708 (Heinrichstraße - Brehmplatz - Uhlandstraße - Hauptbahnhof - Police Headquarters) and the U71 (D-Rath - Heinrichstraße - Brehmplatz - Heinrich-Heine-Allee - Bilk-S - Benrath, Depot) meet at Brehmplatz. The Brehmstraße one of the major thoroughfares of Düsseldorf. In the south, the district is also bordered by Grafenberger Allee.

Rethelstrasse is a shopping street that covers daily and medium-sized needs. It was named on July 16, 1876 after the German history painter and draftsman Alfred Rethel .

Düsseltal as a residential area

Düsseltal is one of the upscale residential areas in Düsseldorf, especially the area around the Zoopark is in great demand and accordingly expensive. In the area around Hans-Sachs-Straße there are many villa-like buildings that are often private homes. Condominiums are also common in Düsseltal. The rents are quite expensive - even by Düsseldorf standards.

education

Brehmschule

Düsseltal also has a wide range of childcare and educational facilities.

• Catholic Pauline School
• Catholic Carl Sunshine School
• Evangelical Brehm School, Karl-Müller-Strasse
• Werner-von-Siemens-Realschule, Rethelstraße 13
• Goethe high school
• Heinrich Heine Comprehensive School
• French school

Council election on May 25, 2014

Turnout: 52.8%

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39.2%

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4.2%

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SPD

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FDP

left

AfD

Otherwise.

literature

• Bernard Peugniez: Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 557 (entry Düsselthal, French, with pictures).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Office for statistics and elections of the state capital Düsseldorf: Statistics for the district 023 - Düsseltal
2. ^ ^{A b c} Statistics of the state capital Düsseldorf on the district of Düsseltal . Retrieved February 6, 2018.
3. ↑ OpenStreetMap / Relation / Düsseltal (91147) . Retrieved August 6, 2009.
4. ^ Derendorfer Jonges 1956 - The meeting place and the local history association ( Memento from September 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved February 19, 2010.
5. ^ History. Zeal and annihilation. BRASSERIE D'ORVAL SA, 2011, accessed July 21, 2016 . 
6. ↑ FE von Mehring, in: Düsselthal , Volume 11, pp. [8] 2 to [10] 4. Digitized edition of the ULB Düsseldorf
7. ^ FE von Mehring, in: Düsselthal , Volume 11, p. [11] 5.
8. ↑ Heimat- und Kulturkreis Wittlaer eV - Yearbooks Wittlaer .
9. ↑ Gerlinde Viertel: The beginning of the rescue house movement under Adalbert Graf von der Recke-Volmerstein (1791-1878) . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7927-1387-X , p. 173-174 .
10. ^ Memorandum to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Haniel & Lueg plant: Düsseldorf-Grafenberg; February 12, 1899 , p. 1

Web links

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

• Archivblatt Düsseltal