Eppinghofen

Eppinghofen City of Mülheim an der Ruhr Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 3 ″  N , 6 ° 53 ′ 21 ″  E
Incorporation :	April 1, 1878
Postal code :	45468
Area code :	0208
Location of Eppinghofen in North Rhine-Westphalia

Eppinghofen is an inner-city district of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr in North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the Mülheim district of Altstadt II . Until its incorporation in 1878, Eppinghofen was a municipality in what was then the district of Mülheim an der Ruhr .

geography

Eppinghofen essentially comprises that part of Mülheim's inner city, which is bounded in the south by the Duisburg – Dortmund railway line and in the north by Aktienstraße . The business center of Eppinghofen is located on Eppinghofer Straße . The eastern part of Eppinghofen is known as the Dichterviertel .

Residential houses in Eppinghoven

history

The first written mention of Eppinghofen comes from the year 1250. The place was originally a scattered agricultural settlement that was overbuilt in the course of the 19th century. The first significant industrial enterprise was in 1811 a mechanical workshop was founded, from which today's Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte emerged.

In the 19th century, Eppinghofen was initially a rural community in the Mülheim-Land mayor . This belonged to the district of Duisburg until 1874 and since then to the district of Mülheim an der Ruhr. On April 1, 1878, Eppinghofen was incorporated into the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Population development

year	Residents	source
1832	1019
1864	3239
1871	3897
1885	4952

Architectural monuments

In Eppinghofen, numerous residential buildings from the 19th century are listed .

societies

• Gymnastics Club Eppinghofen 1900
• Eppinghofer Citizens' Association

traffic

Two tram lines run through Eppinghofen . The line 102 leads from the main station Mülheim coming underground through Eppinghofen according Dümpten and subway station share road with the in line 104 linked by Mülheim to food Schönebeck leads.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr: Eppinghoven
2. ^ Eppinghofer Bürgererverein: History of Eppinghofen
3. ^ Website of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr: Zeitzeichen
4. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, accessed on May 5, 2019 (digitized version). 
5. ^ Statistics of the government district of Düsseldorf 1867
6. ↑ 1871 census
7. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province 1885, p. 74