Great Tree

The emergence falls in the time of the medieval agricultural settlements. Originally, the entire area of today's Großenbaum was covered with forest. It belonged to the Angermund office and was part of the Huckinger Gemarkenwald, the so-called Grindsmark, the eastern part of which still exists today. Jan and Bede Meypels are documented as the first settlers here. In 1532 they built their house on the big tree near the road to Saarn . This big tree was a barrier at a Bergisch customs office. The Landwehr running here protected the northern border of the Duchy of Berg against the Duchy of Cleves . The customs office was located near today's Duisburg-Großenbaum train station on the old Cöln-Mindener railway .

Until it was incorporated into Duisburg in 1929, the place belonged to the mayor of Angermund in the Düsseldorf district . The population numbers have remained almost constant in recent years.

1950	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
6.263	11,651	11,169	11,048	10,938	10,881	10,405	10,213	10.122	10,072	10,106	10.145	10.100	10.157	10.092	10,078	10,109	10,074	9,986

As of December 31, 2016

present

Today there are different residential areas. Older and new terraced houses alternate with larger housing estates and some high-rise buildings. The Catholic parish church of St. Francis is located on the main street along which the village stretches for a length of about 1500 m. Special events in the district are the rifle festival and the turnpike festival.

Großenbaum is a departmental location of the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and also has two primary schools , the Fliedner Academy for Management, a special school with a focus on emotional and social development, and a comprehensive school .

The Rotdornstrasse children's village and 2 nursing homes (one belonging to the Duisburg Clinic, one belonging to the Diakonie) are located in Großenbaum.

economy

In 1890, the entrepreneur Albert Hahn set up a steel rolling mill in Großenbaum, after having acquired a plot of land west of the railroad tracks the previous year. Initially 150 workers were employed. The monthly production was initially 2,000 tons of finished steel products. In 1896, the Albert-Hahn-Röhrenwerke were renamed into a stock corporation with the name Hahnsche Werke AG. The company expanded. Among other things, a pipe welding plant and a Siemens-Martin plant were built. It already employed 3,500 people in the mid-1920s. During the Aryanization during the National Socialist era, Hahn's works were sold to the Mannesmann Group and renamed Stahl- und Walzwerke Großenbaum AG , but some of them were returned to the family after the Second World War , with Mannesmann retaining 45% of the company's shares. In 1958, Mannesmann took over the company completely. The works, which have since been renamed Mannesmann AG Hahnsche Werke , employed around 2,800 people at that time. In the course of September 1966, the first of the two Siemens-Martin furnaces and on November 30th the second in the steelworks were to be shut down. 100 employees moved to the Mannesmannröhren factory in Duisburg- Huckingen ; the previous monthly production of around 23,000 tonnes of steel could be taken over by the Huckingen plant without any difficulties. Production ended on July 20, 1983. On the former company premises there is now an industrial area with numerous companies and shops such as Bauhaus AG, Volksfürsorge, McDonald's, Aqua Technik Umwelt GmbH, BÄKO -Zentrale Nord eG and Media Markt .

traffic

Old trainstation. Currently used as a music café (platform three)

S-Bahn stop

Großenbaum has a motorway connection to the A 59 Duisburg-Dinslaken (AS DU-Großenbaum) as well as to the A 524 (AS Duisburg-Rahm, feeder to A 3 and A 52 ). The S1 S-Bahn line between Düsseldorf and Dortmund runs every 20 minutes during the day, every 30 minutes in the evening and on the weekend and every hour at night on the weekends and before public holidays. In Großenbaum the bus lines 934 (Großenbaum Bf. - Kaßlerfeld), 940 ( Rahm - Hüttenheim ), 941 (Großenbaum - Krefeld - Uerdingen ) and 946 (Großenbaum - St. Anna Hospital) of the Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft (DVG) operate .

line	Line designation	Line course
S 1	Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn	Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Mülheim (Ruhr) - Duisburg - Duisburg-Großenbaum - Düsseldorf Airport - Düsseldorf - Hilden - Solingen

←	Lines			→
Duisburg cream		S 1 Cologne – Duisburg		Duisburg-Buchholz

Web links

Streets in the district (onlinestreet.de)

literature

Günter von Roden: History of the city of Duisburg . II. The districts from the beginning - the entire city since 1905. Duisburg 1974, ISBN 3-87096-101-5 , p. 288 ff .
Festival committee 450 years of Großenbaum (ed.): Festschrift 450 years of Großenbaum (1532–1982) , Duisburg 1982.
Contemporary witness exchange Duisburg eV: Duisburg-Großenbaum and Rahm, Sutton Verlag Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-787-7
Zeitzeugenbörse Duisburg eV: Duisburger Hüttenwerke, Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-364-8

Individual evidence

↑ Duisburg districts in figures as of December 31, 2018 (PDF; 21 kB)

[EinwohnerStatistik-1] Duisburg districts in figures as of December 31, 2018 (PDF; 21 kB)