Grafenberg (Dusseldorf)

Grafenberg district of the state capital Düsseldorf
Basic data
Geographic location :	51 ° 14 ′  N , 6 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′  N , 6 ° 49 ′  E
Surface:	0.91 km²
Residents:	5,832 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	6,409 inhabitants per km²
District:	District 7
District number:	072
Transport links
Bundesstrasse :
Light rail :	U 72 U 73 U 83
Tram :	709
Bus route:	730 733 894 M 1 M 2
Night traffic:	NE 2 NE 4 NE 5 810

Grafenberg is an eastern district of Düsseldorf , at the foot of the foothills of the Bergisches Land . Grafenberg, with around 5,830 inhabitants (as of December 2016), is 0.91 km² and is the second smallest, but most densely populated district in District 7 . It stretches along Grafenberger Allee to Staufenplatz in the east. In some cases, the demarcation to the neighboring districts is not always familiar to locals either.

Delimitations to the neighboring districts

Mainly used as a residential area, the district is of minor economic importance.

However, the headquarters of Metro AG , the main employment agency, the Thyssen Trade Center , many office buildings and the Grafental residential area are located directly across the city limits in Flingern -Nord . Emotionally, these locations are still attributed to Grafenberg by many Düsseldorf residents.

The Grafenberg Forest , the Grafenberg horse racing track and the Düsseldorf State Hospital are also incorrectly assumed to be in this district; in fact, they are in the neighboring Düsseldorf-Ludenberg .

Names

The name Grafenberg is not the historical name for the wooded hill in front of which the Grafenberg district lies and which is its namesake. In a document from 1282, the abbess Gertrudis von Neukirchen from the Gerresheimer Stift gave the convent a piece of land near the "Walde Godesberg". "Godesberg" or "Godesbusch" or "Jodesbusch" was the old and original name for the ridge. According to historians, the name Godesberg is a reference to old Germanic cult sites in Franconian settlement areas that were created for Wodan . The next document dates from 1360. In this, the nobleman "Haick von Flingern" is enfeoffed with the Godesberg forest and named its "forest count". This presumably started the modification of the word Godes from Groben to Graf. The term “Grobenberg” is used in a document from Elector Philipp Wilhelm . In 1668 the Jesuit College in Düsseldorf was given a house on the "rough mountain". The current name Grafenberg only became common after the end of the 17th century.

history

As mentioned in the previous chapter, the naming of the Grafenberg district refers to the wooded ridge in front of which it lies. The medieval border between the Düsseldorf and Mettmann offices was in the area of ​​today's border between the Ludenberg and Grafenberg districts. At this time, the "Flinger Mark" and thus Düsseldorf ended on the wooded Godesberg and the area of ​​today's Grafenberg district originally belonged to Flingern.

Grafenberg was a sparsely populated and largely forest-covered area with only a few farms until the end of the 17th century. 15 inhabited houses can be proven for 1782. In 1809, despite the proximity to Düsseldorf, the number of residents was only 147. In a description from 1836 Grafenberg is given as a village on the outskirts of Düsseldorf with 24 houses and 182 residents.

It was not until the second half of the 19th century that the industrial development of Düsseldorf began to expand. For the increasing number of residents with children, the first school operation in the building of an inn was demonstrable in 1860. The first school was built in 1875, the current “Grafenberger Schule” on Grafenberger Allee. For the increasing influx of residents and the construction of factories between Flingern and Grafenberg, the first larger rental houses were built on Grafenberger Allee and the "Hohenzollern houses" on Pöhlenweg and Ludenbergstraße from 1773.

The railway line from Eller to Rath was laid out at ground level in 1874 and severely hindered road traffic in front of Staufenplatz until the end of the 20th century.

The electric tram, the forerunner of a horse-drawn tram that connects Grafenberg with the center of Düsseldorf via Flingern, was approved in April 1895 and built and put into operation until August of the same year. In 1898 there was a change to Gerresheim with another line.

description

Burgmüllerstrasse in Grafenberg

Located on the edge of the Düsseldorf city forest , the district is greened above average. The Ostpark also contributes to this, as does an underground railway line, the above-ground cover of which was designed like a park.

Largely spared from war damage, Grafenberg has in parts a closed Wilhelminian style development and numerous buildings from the 1920s and 1930s. There are also high-quality houses from the 1980s.

The numerous green spaces, the varied and spacious development, many sports facilities and the relative proximity to the city center and attractive workplaces (see below) make the district a sought-after residential area.

The spring fair always takes place on the Staufenplatz at Easter. Circus organizers like to pitch their tent here. The rest of the time he is available for park and ride . The Jan Wellem fountain is not far from Ernst-Poensgen- Allee .

Others

The largest club in the district is TV Grafenberg with over 1000 members in the departments of basketball, boules, football, gymnastics, kickboxing, tennis, table tennis and gymnastics. The citizens' association Düsseldorf-Grafenberg 1903 eV and the cultural group Gerresheim, Grafenberg and Hubbelrath eV combine civic engagement

Web links

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

• Office for statistics and elections of the state capital Düsseldorf : Statistics for the district 072 - Grafenberg
• State capital Düsseldorf - From the districts : Information about Grafenberg
• Civic Association Düsseldorf-Grafenberg 1903 eV , homepage
• Kulturkreis Gerresheim, Grafenberg and Hubbelrath eV , homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Office for statistics and elections of the state capital Düsseldorf: Statistics for the district 072 - Grafenberg
2. ↑ grafental.de , website
3. ↑ ^{a b} Woldemar Harleß , in: Zeitschrift des Bergisches Geschichtsverein , 1871, Volume VII, p. 208. Online version
4. ^ W. Crecelius, in: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , 1871, Volume VII, p. 314. Online version
5. ^ Woldemar Harleß, in: Zeitschrift des Bergisches Geschichtsverein , 1871, Volume VII, p. 207. Online version
6. ^ Woldemar Harleß, in: Zeitschrift des Bergisches Geschichtsverein , 1871, Volume VII, p. 208. Online version
7. ^ In: Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein / Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine / Miscellen , 1890, Volume 5, p. [155] 151. Online version
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} In: Archives of the Grafenberger Bürgererverein . [1]
9. ^ In: Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein / Contributions to the History of the Lower Rhine / Miscellen , 1890, Volume 5, p. [147] 143. Online version
10. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn , in: Statistics and Topography of the Government District of Düsseldorf, 1832 , 1836, Part 2, p. 74. Online version
11. ↑ In: Official Journal for the Düsseldorf District , 1895, p. [275] 166. Online version
12. ↑ Support group Jan-Wellem-Brunnen e. V. , website