Essenberg (Duisburg)
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Essenberg
City of Duisburg
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 21 ″ N , 6 ° 42 ′ 22 ″ E
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| Residents : | 746 (December 31, 2011) | |
| Incorporation : | April 1, 1907 | |
| Incorporated into: | Homberg | |
| Postal code : | 47198 | |
| Area code : | 02066 | |
Location of Essenberg in North Rhine-Westphalia |
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Essenberg is a district of the city of Duisburg in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1907, Essenberg was an independent municipality in what was then the district of Moers .
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geography
Essenberg is located on the left bank of the Rhine and belongs to the Alt-Homberg district of Duisburg , which is part of the Homberg / Ruhrort / Baerl district . In the south, Essenberg is bounded by the Essenberger Bruch, which was created in a silted up old Rhine loop . The Essenberger See is a former quarry pond, which was created in the 20th century . The former municipality of Essenberg had an area of 2.58 km².
history
Essenberg has formed a rural community in the mayor's office of Homberg since the 19th century . This belonged to the Geldern district until 1857 and to the Moers district since 1857. With the establishment of the Rheinpreußen colliery in the 1850s and the Sachtleben chemical plant in the 1850s, Essenberg became an industrial community. On January 1, 1907, Essenberg was incorporated into the municipality of Homberg together with the municipality of Hochheide . Homberg was made a city in 1921 and part of the city of Duisburg in 1975.
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1832 | 456 | |
| 1864 | 673 | |
| 1871 | 664 | |
| 1885 | 1152 | |
| 1895 | 1539 |
Architectural monuments
In Essenberg, the houses at Wilhelmallee 48, 52, 53, 54, 55 and 56, the former ship repair workshop at Wilhelmallee 12, the Germania war memorial and the old ferry station are listed .
traffic
From Essenberg, the Neuenkamp Rhine bridge on federal motorway 40 crosses the Rhine. A Rhine ferry used to operate at this point. Sachtleben Chemie has a rail link via the former Duisburg-Ruhrort-Mönchengladbach railway line .
Individual evidence
- ↑ District portrait Homberg-Ruhrort-Baerl, p. 9
- ↑ District portrait Homberg-Ruhrort-Baerl, p. 5
- ↑ Geography of the Essenberger See
- ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland 1885, p. 74
- ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1906, p. 450
- ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, accessed on May 5, 2019 (digitized version).
- ^ Statistics of the government district of Düsseldorf 1867
- ↑ 1871 census
- ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Moers