Eicken (Mönchengladbach)

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Eicken
The district does not have its own coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 31 ″  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 45 ″  E
Area : 2.97 km²
Residents : 14,677  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 4,943 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 41061 41063
Area code : 02161
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Location of Eicken in the northern district of the city of Mönchengladbach
Typical development on Eickener Straße, the pedestrian zone
Typical development on Eickener Straße, the pedestrian zone

Eicken is a district of Mönchengladbach . It belongs to the northern district . In the Eickener road there are many listed buildings.

Sports

The Gasthaus Zum Jägerhof on Alsstrasse in the district is the birthplace of the Borussia Mönchengladbach football club .

Several monuments in the pedestrian zone remind of the successful time of the club, including the Borussia fountain by Bonifatius Stirnberg and the former players Günter Netzer , Berti Vogts and Herbert Wimmer as bronze figures and a stone football.

Attractions

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.moenchengladbach.de/fileadmin/user_upload/statistik/Bevölker_nach_Stadtbezirken_und_Stadtteile__12_2018.pdf
  2. ↑ Markus Aretz, Stephan Giebeler, Elmar Kreuels: The ball gets rolling: Borussia's early days . In: Borussia Mönchengladbach The Chronicle . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-748-2 , 1899 to 1905, p. 12 .
  3. ↑ Andreas Menne: A ten-ton ball rolls through Eicken . RP Online GmbH. April 5, 2010. Retrieved June 25, 2016.