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Flehe district of the state capital Düsseldorf
Basic data
Geographic location :	51 ° 11 ′  N , 6 ° 46 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′  N , 6 ° 46 ′  E
Height:	40  m above sea  level
Surface:	1.99 km²
Residents:	2,687 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	1,350 inhabitants per km²
Incorporation :	1384
District:	District 3
District number:	038
Transport links
Autobahn :
Bundesstrasse :
Light rail :	U 72
Bus route:	723 726 893
Night traffic:	NE 8

Flehe is a district of Düsseldorf and is located in the old south of the city of Düsseldorf, adjacent to the districts of Bilk , Volmerswerth and Himmelgeist , directly on the Rhine .

With around 2,700 inhabitants on an area of ​​1.99 km², Flehe is one of the smaller districts. Administratively, Flehe is assigned to District 3 .

District structure

The core of the district between Fleher Church and the Rhine is still dominated by agriculture and still has a village character, although it is quite close to the city center. In the area around Aachener Platz, however, the character is urban. The Saturday flea market at Aachener Platz attracts visitors from all over the region.

The village character results not least from the small number of inhabitants and the low level of development. The proportion of non-German citizens is 6 to 7%, well below the Düsseldorf average (approx. 16%). The average age is around 44 years.

Surname

The name Flehe probably comes from the Middle German flet for river, old names are also Vle , Flee or Vlye and mean “located on the current”, others read the word “Flüchten” in the sense of refuge, but the name was given for a long time derived from floods also jokingly from pleading (for an end to the flood). In fact, according to a map by the hydraulic engineer and land surveyor Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking , Fleh [e] must not only have been located directly on the Rhine around 1590, but also on an arm of the river that had turned a hill of today's Volmerswerth into an island.

Flehe was incorporated into Düsseldorf as early as 1384, although it was only mentioned in a document in 1402.

Infrastructure

Water extraction system: There is a water extraction system near Flehe and the Düsseldorfer Stadtwerke use a filter well to convey bank filtrate, i.e. Rhine water that has migrated through the layers of sand and gravel and is used as drinking water after further treatment.

The most famous structure in Flehe is probably the Fleher Bridge , over which the Autobahn 46 leads from Neuss to Wuppertal.

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  Fleher elementary school

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  Catholic Church Mater Dolorosa

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  Aachener Platz stop

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  Border between Bilk and Flehe (Aachener Platz)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Office for statistics and elections of the state capital Düsseldorf: Statistics for the district 038 - Flehe
2. ↑ Map: Changes that have taken place with the Strombahn between Worringen and Düsseldorf. Copper engraving by Johann Christian Eckard , in Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking (Ed.); Claus Kröncke : General theoretical and practical hydraulic engineering based on history and experience , steel, Darmstadt, 1798

Web links

Commons : Düsseldorf-Flehe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Plead on the website of the city of Düsseldorf