Delrath

Delrath City of Dormagen
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 42 ″  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 1 ″  E
Residents :	2931  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Incorporated into:	Dormagen
Postal code :	41542
Area code :	02133

Delrath is a district in the city of Dormagen and belongs to the Rhine district of Neuss .

location

Delrath is a partly still agricultural village that begins to the west at the former carpentry workshop Kürten, Bismarckstraße, and goes to the former zinc smelter in the east. The former village of Werkssiedlung Zinkhütte including the Nackenhof is now a desert without the Nackenhof and can be added to Delrath, including the Silbersee. In the north, the village of Delrath begins with the farm road about at the height of the Nackenhof. In the south, the motorway service stations east and west belong to the place and further to the site of the former clay factory, terminated by the federal motorway A 57.

history

Various archaeological finds reveal the first human traces as early as 4,000 BC. Trace back to BC. It cannot be proven whether there was already a settlement here.

Middle Ages
The place Delrath was probably built between 900 and 1300. The place name was originally called Dahlrath , which means something like clearing of the valley. Delhoven has a similar name. On February 7th, 1263 Marsilius and Amilius von Didenrode are mentioned as witnesses in a sales contract. Since the 14th century the place belonged to the cologne Dingstuhl Hülchrath .

Modern times in
1663 Delrath consisted of 13 houses and farms. In 1794 the French troops occupied the Rhineland . Delrath was now part of the municipality of Zons in the canton of Zons. In 1798 Delrath came to Mairie Nievenheim in the canton of Dormagen in the Département de la Roer . In 1815 Delrath came to the Kingdom of Prussia and in 1816 to the municipality and mayor's office of Nievenheim in the Neuss district . In 1927 the mayor's office in Nievenheim was renamed to Amt Nievenheim . Since January 1st, 1975 Delrath is part of the city of Dormagen . In 1985 Delrath was recognized as a district and since 1989 this has been indicated by its own place name signs. In the southern part of Delrath, several blocks of flats with cheap rental apartments were built, which led to a significant increase in the number of residents, but also to social problems. Since 1990 the city of Dormagen has endeavored to unite the districts of Delrath and Nievenheim. Therefore, Delrath's citizens were forced to finance their new village square themselves.

Population development

year	number
1885	276
1929	574
1950	1914
December 31, 1993	3021
May 2006	3690
June 2010	2969
2011	2949
2012	2958
December 31, 2013	2904
December 31, 2014	2889
December 31, 2015	3004
December 31, 2016	2881
December 31, 2017	2931
December 31, 2018	2947

societies

• Fishing club Delrath 1923
• Carnival Society Delrath 1974/95 e. V.
• Interest group Delrather Carnival
• Catholic women's community
• Pathfinder Society St. George, Tribe Greifen
• Parish Chancellor St. Gabriel
• Lady of Hearts Delrath Skat Club
• Bertwins' snooker hall
• Spiel- und Sportverein Delrath 1927 e. V.
• St. Hubertus-Bürgererschützenverein Delrath 1926 e. V.
• Supporting association "Johanneshaus Delrath"
• Association of Friends and Supporters of the Henri Dunant School, Städt. Community elementary school Dormagen-Delrath
• St. Hubertus Tambourcorps "Happy ahead" 1997 Delrath

religion

Catholic Church
In 1926 the Delrath wooden chapel was built. In 1953 it was replaced by a new stone building. On July 1, 1955 Delrath was elevated to a Catholic rectorate parish.

economy

Agriculture
In the 13th and 14th centuries, the farms Leckenhof, Latourshof, Meiselhöfchen and Sülzhof were established in Delrath. The historian Martin Henriquez von Strevensdorff lived on the Leckenhof in the 17th century. The builder Johann Conrad Schlaun from Münster received the Sülzhof as a fief. In 1766 he had the courtyard rebuilt according to his own plans. An apple orchard has been built on this since 1991. Apples are also grown on the Latourshof opposite. The first harvest was brought in in 1993. Livestock farming only operates one farm in Delrath. The Stüttgerhof was built in 1898.

Industrial companies
There were industrial companies west of Delrath very early on. Since 1911 there was a zinc smelter on the Delrather Heide . It ceased operations in 1971. The zinc smelter's buildings and an adjacent settlement were demolished in 1973. Today there is still a larger concrete plant on the industrial site.

traffic

Rail transport

• In 1855 the Cologne-Neuss railway line was opened. Nievenheim train station, which is located in Delrath, was opened in 1895. Today an S-Bahn line S 11 (Düsseldorf Airport Terminal -) Düsseldorf - Neuss - Dormagen - Cologne - Bergisch Gladbach stops here .
• The Nievenheim-Zons industrial railway has existed since 1911, and is based in Delrath. In 2005, Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG took over the industrial railway from Verkehrsgesellschaft Dormagen (VGD).

Bus traffic
The city ​​bus of the Dormagener Verkehrsgesellschaft runs through Delrath with the lines 880, 884, 885, 886/887, NE2 and WE2.

Roads
In the neighboring towns of Norf and Horrem there is a motorway connection to the federal motorway 57 . The federal road 9 can be reached in neighboring St. Peter.

education

• Kindergarten St. Gabriel - Montessori Kindergarten
• Municipal kindergarten "Villa Colorful Cloud"
• Community primary school Henri Dunant School

literature

• Gottfried Neuen: Pulheim through the ages. Pulheim 1966.
• Burkhard Schleif: Where is Delrod? Published on behalf of the city of Dormagen, The Mayor of Heinz A. Pankalla. Dormagen 1995.
• St. Hubertus Bürgererschützenverein Delrath 1926 e. V. (Hrsg.): We celebrate shooting festival…. Dormagen 2001.
• Association “750 Years of Delrath e. V. “(Ed.): 750 Years Delrath 2013.
• Günter Blank: Platt kalle, en Delrod un öm Delrod eröm. (a dialect dictionary).
• Contemporary history of the village of Delrath in five volumes:
• Günter Blank: data and images - Delrath from 1263-1930.
• Günter Blank: Delrath time travel 1931-1960. - Delrath time travel 1961–1975. - Delrath time travel 1976–1990. - Delrath time travel 1991-2006.
• Günter Blank: Delrather Liederheft (= collection of Delrath Heimat-, club-, shooting- and drinking songs )
• Günter Blank, and others: Chronicle of SSV Delrath. Delrath 2002.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} social report with population figures. (PDF) City of Dormagen, December 31, 2017, accessed on March 26, 2019 . 
2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 294 .
3. ↑ The draft horse of industry. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. November 29, 2011, accessed March 26, 2019 .