Duissern

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Duissern
District of Duisburg
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Map of Duissers
Basic data
Coordinates : 51 ° 26 '7 "  N , 6 ° 47' 26"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '7 "  N , 6 ° 47' 26"  E
Area : 4.89  km²
Postal code : 47058
Area code : 0203
population
Residents : 14,696 (Dec. 31, 2016)
Population density : 3005 inhabitants / km²
Proportion of foreigners : 11% (1610)
structure
District : Duisburg center
District number: 504
Luther Church in Duisburg-Duissern

Duissern [ ˈdʏsɐn ] is one of the oldest districts of Duisburg . It has 14,696 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2016) and is part of the Duisburg district of Duisburg-Mitte . The district borders the Speldorf district of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr in the east .

history

The three-gabled house built by Duisserner nuns in the old town of Duisburg

The city ​​of Duisburg was one of those medieval cities whose area was not limited to the area within the city walls. The area of ​​the city also included the districts of the land and forest areas belonging to the royal court of Duisburg. In this area outside the city walls were three villages: Wanheim , Angerhausen and Duissern. Since these places were administered by the City Council of Duisburg, they were called Ratsdörfer . The Ratsdorf Duissern was a street village on the Westphalian Hellweg , the old Franconian Heerweg, which, coming from the east, ended at the confluence of the Ruhr with the Rhine .

Duissern is mentioned in writing as early as 1059 as Diusseron . In 1228 Heinrich, archdeacon of Lüttich and his brother Konrad von Dyck gave the "Johanniter-Kommende in Duisburg" their court in Duissern. In November 1234, Archbishop Heinrich I of Cologne approved the construction of a church for the newly founded nunnery there in the same year for the Duisburg citizen Alexander on his Allode in Duissern. For this Zisterzienserinnenkloster Saarn , here the branch monastery Kloster Duissern that led Abbey Kamp spiritual oversight. In 1582 the Cistercian Sisters moved to Duisburg after the monastery had burned down several times. In 1608 the Duissern nuns acquired the three-gabled house , the oldest residential building still in existence in the city of Duisburg, and settled there. The monastery in Duissern was on the corner of Oranienstrasse and Hansastrasse, where the remains of the demolished monastery were found during excavations in the 1920s.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the ferry connection over the Ruhr that had existed since the Middle Ages was replaced by the Aaker ferry bridge, which was inaugurated in 1907 and completely renovated in 1997 . There was a helicopter airport near the bridge from 1955 to 1966 with scheduled connections to Eindhoven and Brussels as well as Dortmund (1957 to 1962).

Diphtheria epidemic of 1932

In 1932, a diphtheria epidemic raged in Duissern, killing over 200 people. The source of the disease was found in what was then the "Am Werthacker" residential camp. At the low point of the global economic crisis , as a result of rampant unemployment , many people were weakened by a lack of food and could hardly afford fuel in winter. Together with the poor hygiene, particularly in emergency housing camps, this was the ideal breeding ground for diseases and epidemics .

Today's Duissern

Botanical garden in Duisburg-Duissern
View from the Kaiserberg vantage point towards Duisburg-Nord
Columbarium on Wintgensstrasse

The current part of the city belongs to the city district Mitte and had about 20,000 inhabitants in the 1970s. At the end of 2013, 14,386 people lived in Duissern.

The Duisburg Zoo has been located in Duissern since 1934 . The Kaiserberg and the Kaiserberg motorway junction of the same name are located here , where the A3 and the Ruhrschnellweg A40 intersect.

The main fire station is also located in Duissern, the fire station with most of the fire engines in Duisburg.

Duissern is directly adjacent to the main train station and the Duisburg campus of the University of Duisburg-Essen . A green belt runs through the district, stretching from Goerdeler Park at the main train station via Königsberger Allee to Schweizer Straße at the foot of the Kaiserberg. There is also the two-hectare botanical garden , which was laid out in 1890, with native plants, but also sequoias , ginkgo and araucaria . The northernmost part of the Duisburg city forest is located in the Duisserner area.

Werthacker

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Werthacker is a settlement in Duissern, consisting of the streets Werthacker , Auf dem Werth and Schwiesenkamp in the triangle between the southern bank of the Ruhr, the Kaiserberg motorway junction and the various embankments from Duisburg Hbf to Oberhausen and Mülheim. The entrance sign suggests that it is an independent district, but it officially belongs to Duissern.

As early as 1930 there was a collection of nine elongated buildings arranged in parallel on the area of ​​the later settlement, presumably barracks of an emergency quarter for homeless victims of the global economic crisis.

The settlement in its current form was built as a new building measure after the Second World War . The first houses around the chapel were built in 1952, and the entire settlement was completed in 1963.

The Werthacker was named after a former Ruhr island ( Werth ).

To this day, social life is maintained by the Siedlergemeinschaft Duisburg e. V. , which was founded for the construction. The cellar of the chapel served as a club hall. This was later secularized, partially demolished and used entirely as a meeting center.

traffic

Street

Duisburg-Duissern has a motorway junction ( Duisburg-Duissern ) on the A 59 . This junction is located immediately south of the Duisburg motorway junction , so that the A 40  ( E 34 ) can also be reached quickly. This can also be reached in Duisburg-Duissern via the Duisburg-Kaiserberg junction at Kreuz Kaiserberg , so that Duisburg-Duissern also has a connection to the A 3  ( E 34 (north)  E 35 ). The Emmericher road is also part of the former portion of the Duisburger B 231 .

Public transport

The Duissern U-Bahn station is a public transport hub in Duissern. It operate the Duisburg and at the same time Düsseldorf rail line U79 and Duisburg tram line 903. Above ground consist transfer connections to the bus lines 930 and 931. farms all of these lines from the Duisburger public transport company (DVG) , the line U79 is in the common operation with the Rheinbahn , the line 939 in joint operation with STOAG .

sports clubs

literature

  • Günter von Roden: On the history of Duissers , in: Duisburger Heimatkalender 1962, pp. 97-108.
  • Volker Herrmann: Duissern - A Duisburg district with a 'royal' history. In: Duisburg Monument Themes No. 10, Duisburg 2011. ( PDF (2.31 MB) )
  • Contemporary witness exchange Duisburg eV: Duisburg-Duissern , Sutton Verlag Erfurt, ISBN 978-3-95400-069-2 .

Web links

Commons : Duissern  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population statistics of the city of Duisburg from December 31, 2016 (PDF; 21 kB)
  2. ^ First mentioned in documents from the monastery in 1059 : "Duissern" , kantl.be
  3. ↑ Lacomblet, Theodor Joseph: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cologne, Certificate No. 156. Volume 2, 1846, p. [120] 82. Digitized edition ULB Bonn
  4. ↑ Lacomblet, Theodor Joseph: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cologne, document no. 195. Volume 2, 1846, p. [141] 103. Digitized edition ULB Bonn
  5. ↑ Harenberg Bodo (eds.) And Frank (co-editors) Busch (author): Chronik des Ruhrgebiets 1987, p. 394.
  6. ^ RVR aerial photo from 1934
  7. ↑ DVG: Route Network Day 2019. Accessed on March 16, 2020 .