Garath

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Garath (disambiguation) .

Garath district of the state capital Düsseldorf
Basic data
Geographic location :	51 ° 9 '  N , 6 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '  N , 6 ° 54'  E
Surface:	3.27 km²
Residents:	19,109 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	5,844 inhabitants per km²
Incorporation :	August 1, 1929
District:	District 10
District number:	101
Transport links
Autobahn :
Bundesstrasse :
S-Bahn :	S 6 P 68
Express bus:	SB 57
Bus route:	789 778 779

Garath is a district of Düsseldorf in the south of the urban area, which belongs to district 10 , whose area measures 3.27 square kilometers and which had around 19,050 inhabitants at the end of December 2016. 1956–1957 the city planner Friedrich Tamms designed the new Düsseldorf district. The large housing estate "Wohnstadt Garath" - with 8,000 apartments for more than 30,000 inhabitants, the largest cohesive construction project in Düsseldorf to date - was finally built between 1961 and 1972. The district is named after Garath Castle , which is located on its southeastern edge.

geography

Garath is located in the fertile low terrace of the Rhine . The old Garath was bounded in the west towards Urdenbach by the old arm of the Rhine, the Urdenbacher Kämpen . This is one of the few floodplains on the Rhine that has not been diked. In the east Garath borders on the hill country of Ostberg , where the town of Hilden is also located . To the north, towards Benrath , there was no clear geographical delimitation, nor to the south, where the landscape continues in Monheim am Rhein .

history

Until 1929

The first evidence of a knight dynasty "Von Garderode" has existed since the 13th century. On July 2, 1271, the knight Bruno von Garderode was mentioned as a witness in a contract between the knight Hermann von Betzendorf and the Dünnwald monastery near Cologne-Mülheim . In 1300 this knight also sealed a certificate for a court transfer in the parish of Rommerskirchen to the Teutonic Order House as "Brunodis de Garderoede".

This family also owned properties in the Garath area. After this family died out in 1414, a Simon von Aldenbrüggen called Velmerken bought the “Hoff zu Garderaide” . For 1447 and 1503, three other farms belong to the Garath family . One of these three courtyards was the Hellerhof . From 1703 until the beginning of the 20th century, this farm no longer belonged to the Garath family. In 1610, Bernhard von Vellbrück rebuilt the Garath property and built the still existing gate tower with a curved roof. On June 11, 1719, Franz Karl von Velbrück , who later became the Prince-Bishop of the Diocese of Liège , was born in Garath. In 1776 the last of the Velbrücks died without any descendants. After that, Baron Emmerich Hubert von Raitz zu Frenz became the owner of the property. Other owners of Haus Garath were Baron von Kylmann from 1825, Paul Poensgen (1861–1920) in 1890 and Alhard von Burgsdorff from 1907 . In 1912/13 he built the current castle, a two-story building flanked by two towers with the old gate tower from 1610. In 1913, Alhard von Burgsdorff founded the Garath volunteer fire department. 1978 the city of Düsseldorf acquires Haus Garath and the associated land.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Garath, like other municipalities in the south of Düsseldorf, was assigned to the mayor's office of Benrath as an independent municipality. This did not change in 1908 either. The other independent rural communities still remaining in the rural mayor's office of Benrath at this point in time had been merged into the large community of Benrath by a decree of Emperor Wilhelm II of April 21, 1908. Garath was not affected by this merger. In the mayor's office of Benrath, Garath remained the second independent community alongside Benrath. On May 23, 1929, the Garath municipal council voted to end the independence within the Benrath mayor's office. However, this was practically no longer relevant. Benrath's independence ended on July 31, 1929 when it was incorporated into Düsseldorf. This also affected Garath.

The "new" Garath

The "new" Garath

Due to the increasing population and the prevailing housing shortage, the city of Düsseldorf decided at the end of the 1950s to found a new district in the southeast of Düsseldorf. From 1956 to 1957 , the city planner Friedrich Tamms developed a development concept on an area in the south of Benrath on approx. 230 hectares between the “Urdenbacher Kämpe” on the Old Rhine in the west and the “oak forest” in the east. The result is the largest contiguous planned residential project in Düsseldorf. 8,000 apartments for more than 30,000 residents were to be built there. The site was chosen because it was well connected to the Düsseldorf – Cologne railway line. Further it was located on the parallel federal road.

In February 1958 a competition for urban planning was announced, which the Darmstadt architect Max Guther won together with Rudolf Hartog and Rudolf Stalling. Planning began in 1959. On February 2, 1959, the city of Düsseldorf received the planning order from Max Guther. The joint planning office as the Guther / Planning Office Düsseldorf working group was set up in 1959 under the name “Planning office Düsseldorf Garath”. In 1961, with the creation of a land use plan, the "residential town Garath" was created. On February 18, 1961, the first groundbreaking , which was an excavator excavation, was carried out for Garath. The new district was built in different sections, the first of which was started in 1962 in Garath-Northwest. In 1963 this section was partially ready for occupancy, so that on June 23, 1963 the first families were able to move to Garath-Northwest. In July 1963, construction began in the southwest; in June 1964 the first residents were able to move to Garath-Southwest. The district of Garath-Nordost was partially ready for occupancy in 1966, so that the first families could move into Garath-Nordost, in 1968 the district in the northeast was completed. In 1972 the district in the southeast was completed. The architecture corresponds to "an explicitly solid, dignified construction method that left no room for architectural experiments or reforms". In 1967 the S-Bahn was connected, so on September 28 the S-Bahn could start operating from Garath to Ratingen-Ost. In 1970, the shopping center in Garath-Nordost was completed in the style of concrete brutalism . In 1971, Garath-Süd / Süd was renamed Hellerhof. 1975 took 13 Rheinbahn - electric buses of the line 39 (later 779; today 779 and 778 - same distance opposite the direction of travel), the distance between Garath and Benrath. In 1980 the city motorway was built. The two traffic connections separate the district in two halves, so that the outline of Garath today has the shape of a butterfly with four quarters of equal size.

Culture and sights

Churches

• Chapel of the Nikolaus-Ehlen-Haus
• St. Hildegardis Chapel
• St. Matthew
• St. Norbert
• St. Theresa of the Child Jesus
• Hope Church (demolished in April 2018)
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church

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  St. Matthew

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  Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church

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  St. Norbert Church

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  Hope Church

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  St. Theresa of the Child Jesus

building

Garath thermal power station

• Heating plant
  A central heating plant in Garath was supposed to generate the heat for heating (district heating) and hot water. With this district heating concept , the flue gases of many small coke and oil ovens should be avoided. At the beginning of the 1960s, Stadtwerke Düsseldorf received an order from the city administration to supply the Garath, which was still to be built, with heat. In 1965, the coal-fired heating plant went into operation and gradually replaced the temporary arrangements that had been in operation since 1962. Garath could always be seen from a great distance through the approximately 100 meter high chimney. It was the first desulphurized and denoxified power plant in the world. In 1998, the heating plant was converted to run on natural gas, which meant that the countless truck transports for coal delivery and slag removal were no longer necessary. Since then, the heating plant has been remotely controlled by the largest power plant in Düsseldorf, the Lausward in the harbor, so that the system works without staff. This change can be recognized externally by the new 60 meter high metal chimney; the brick fireplace was torn down. Since December 2002 the public utility company has been letting the chimney and boiler house with its glass facade shine in a bright green light. Since the necessary approval from the responsible state authority was not obtained for this work of art, the lights had to be switched off for a few months until clarification. At the end of 2007, the gas-fired power plant was supplemented with a biomass cogeneration plant from Stadtwerke Düsseldorf.

Garath Castle

• Garath Castle
  The current castle of the Lords of Garderode was built around 1890 when the architect Schleicher rebuilt the previous medieval complex. In 1912 the architect Wöhler carried out further conversions into a country residence. In the park there is a neo-baroque palace chapel, which was also built by the architect Wöhler. It is used on certain occasions by the Protestant parish of Garath. In 2013, shooting for Stromberg - The Film took place in the castle .
• Children's and youth leisure facility Lüderitzstrasse
  A supervised educationally supervised children's and youth leisure facility for children and young people (and in some cases their parents) between the ages of 8 and 21 offers opportunities for attractive leisure activities. There are offers in the craft, sporting and creative areas as well as excursions, trips or actions as an alternative to commercial leisure offers.
• Culture and community center "Garath Leisure Center"
• Anne Frank House
• Elderly Center St. Hildegardis
• Fire and rescue station
  The fire and rescue station in Garath is the sixth in Düsseldorf. Since 1982 it has included a professional fire brigade, a volunteer fire brigade and the fire brigade school. The volunteer fire brigade has existed since February 23, 1913.
• Schützenplatz Garath
  Every first Sunday of the month there is a flea market on Schützenplatz on Frankfurter Strasse.

Works of art

• Sun wheel In
  front of the leisure center in Fritz-Erler-Straße, a steel sculpture by Friedrich Becker was set up in the summer of 1976 . The sculpture is 8.50 meters high and has two 4.5 meter diameter wheels running in opposite directions. These rotate in opposite directions and are driven by the wind. The kinetic pieces of jewelery, objects and sculptures by Friedrich Becker are formative for the second half of the 20th century.
• Countdown
  The ten meter high steel sculpture Countdown, also positioned in front of the leisure facility, is the work of Hans-Albert Walter .

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  Steel plastic sun gear

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  Steel plastic countdown

music

The Düsseldorf Oi! -Band 4 per thousand dedicated their song Garath only to this district. This also applies to the song Heimat der Broilers .

societies

Since 1964 there has been the Association of Citizens and Interest Group Garath eV, called BIG-Garath for short, which campaigns for citizens' petitions in the district.

Economy and Infrastructure

Transport links

Garath S-Bahn station

By car you can reach downtown Düsseldorf via Frankfurter and Münchener Strasse - a multi-lane motorized road . Düsseldorf-Garath also has a junction of the same name to the A59 motorway .

Garath is also well connected to public transport: the district has a train station where the S6 and S68 S-Bahn trains run, which transport passengers to the main station in less than a quarter of an hour. The trains go north via Düsseldorf main station to Essen or Ratingen-Ost or as S68 towards Wuppertal and south to Langenfeld or Cologne-Nippes. Each area of ​​the district can also be reached by bus lines 778/779, which start and end as opposite ring lines at Benrath S-Bahn station. The 789 buses also run through Garath, which connect the main shopping center with Monheim in the south and Holthausen including Benrath in the north.

Trade and commerce

In Garath, the area surrounding the shopping center near the S-Bahn station has been embellished in recent years through various construction measures in order to make the shopping center more attractive and to avoid further relocation of retailers. The initiative came from the business people in Garath, who, in cooperation with the local government and citizens, left empty commercial space as more and more retailers and more and more Garathers went shopping in the neighboring districts. After these measures, the attractiveness for retail increased, so that Garath now has a varied and large shopping center.

There are branches of Aldi, DM-Markt, Kodi, Netto, Penny and Tedi, several bakeries, flower shops, kiosks with lottery acceptance, textile shops, hairdressers, pharmacies, two Turkish grocery stores with a wide range, a specialty shop for Silesian and one for Russian specialties . There is also a Sparkasse branch, a post office, a bicycle shop, a tailoring shop, an optician, driving schools, a Thai massage, a dry cleaner, a travel agency and a branch of a funeral home. The gastronomy consists of two fast food outlets, two pubs, two ice cream cafés, a pizzeria and the Hotel Octagon (formerly Hotel Achteck) with its own restaurant.

schools

• Municipal Community Primary School - Adam-Stegerwald-Straße
• Municipal Community Primary School - Neustrelitzer Straße
• Municipal Catholic Primary School - Josef-Kleesattel-Straße
• Municipal Montessori primary school - Emil-Barth-Straße
• Willi-Fährmann-Schule - elementary school
• Fritz-Henkel-Schule - Municipal Community Secondary School (will be closed in 2021 and will become the comprehensive school in Stettiner Straße)
• Municipal Montessori Secondary School - Emil-Barth-Straße
• Alfred Herrhausen School - municipal special school
• Comprehensive School in Stettiner Strasse

See also

• Garather Mühlenbach

literature

• Gert Kaiser (Ed.): Düsseldorf Garath / Hellerhof 1963–2003 - Idea and Realization. City archive Düsseldorf, 2003, ISBN 3-926490-09-8 .
• Veronika Darius: The architect Gottfried Böhm. Buildings from the sixties . Beton-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7640-0236-0 . (Builder Forum)
• Dwayne Da Vinci: Garather Short Stories . Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017, ISBN 978-1542461801

Web links

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

• The official district portal of district 10
• Official website of the city of Düsseldorf for the renovation of the main center Garath ( Memento from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Garath until 1960 , on mein-garath.de, accessed on May 9, 2019
• Citizens and Interest Group Garath eV

Individual evidence

1. ^ Office for statistics and elections of the state capital Düsseldorf: Statistics for the district 101 - Garath
2. ↑ Lacomblet, Theodor Josef: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine. Certificate 1062 . 1846, Volume 2, p. [662] 624. Online version
3. ↑ ^{a b c} In: Benrath historically, series of publications of the archive of the home community Groß-Benrath , p. 37.
4. ^ Friedrich Everhard von Mering : History of the castles, manors, abbeys and monasteries in the Rhineland. Volume 12, 1861, p. [15] 9.
5. ^ In: Benrath historically, series of publications of the archive of the home community Groß-Benrath ; Volume 15, p. 32.
6. ↑ Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 177, object no. 259 (Garath district project).