Heerdt

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

Heerdt district of the state capital Düsseldorf
Basic data
Geographic location :	51 ° 14 '  N , 6 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 14 '  N , 6 ° 43'  E
Surface:	4.05 km²
Residents:	11,028 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	2,723 inhabitants per km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1909
District:	District 4
District number:	042
Transport links
Autobahn :
Bundesstrasse :
Light rail :	U 70 U 74 U 75 U 76 U 77
Express bus:	SB 85
Bus route:	828 829 830 833 841 862 863 864 M 2
Night traffic:	805

“Herdt” on sheet 44 of the Tranchot map from 1805

Düsseldorf-Heerdt is the westernmost district of Düsseldorf and belongs to district 4 . The rural community, first mentioned in the 11th century, was for a long time more oriented towards the left bank of the Rhine than towards Düsseldorf.

description

Around the Nikolaus-Knopp-Platz, named after the former mayor, the old Heerdt can be seen at the Heerdter Church. There you will find all the important shopping opportunities for daily needs. The Heerdter section of the Rheinallee is a popular promenade, with stately villas. Otherwise there are still many rather simple multi-family complexes. In the south to the city limits to Neuss and its port area, Heerdt is still largely industrial. In the west of Heerdt, on the Handweiser, is the Heerdt depot of the Rheinbahn . In the north, Heerdt is experiencing a significant structural change from trade to service and living. The recreational value is complemented by Cinestar -Filmpalast, Albertussee and a district sports facility .

The most important arterial road to the west, Brussels Street, cuts through the district. The Heerdt Ökotop, founded in 1986, is a topic of conversation as an attempt to live in an environmentally friendly way in an urban environment. Natural history lectures and guided tours are regularly offered there.

coat of arms

Blazon : The coat of arms is divided into four by a continuous black cross, two crossed silver (white) keys in blue in the upper right corner, with their beards turned outwards, in the upper left in silver (white) a growing saint ( St. Benedict ) with a golden ( yellow) halo and black regalia, the golden (yellow) crook and golden (yellow) chalice in the right hand, lower right silver (white), lower left red.

Meaning: The black cross refers to Heerdt's earlier affiliation with the Electorate of Cologne. The crossed keys stand for St. Peter, the patron saint of the electorate. The saint at the top left is St. Benedict, Patron of Heerdt, with abbot's staff.

history

The Heerdt area to the north, in the neighborhood of Neuss , was settled on the Lower Rhine before Roman times. After the Roman period, a Franconian Salhof emerged as the core of the settlement in the "Waldmark Herdt" , which at the beginning of the High Middle Ages was under the patronage of the Quirin Abbey in Neuss. In 1074, the Archbishop of Cologne, Anno II, divided this responsibility. The Abbey of Quirin received the Salhof including accessories, while the abbess of the noble ladies' abbey Quirin was responsible for the extensive demarcation with the Heerdter Busch as forest countess. At this time the church of the later parish of Heerdt had not yet been built. In the text accompanying this division it was stated that the church was later built in the area of ​​the Salhof. In addition to the village of Heerdt, there were also the smaller settlements Nieder- and Oberkassel in the Mark. Another former settlement called "Neill" had already been flooded by the Rhine before 1074 and was completely destroyed.

Reliable documents are still lacking about the beginnings of the parish of Heerdt. However, the parish belonged to the county of Kleve from 1225 and changed to Kurköln in 1392 . In a document from 1298, the glory of Hülchrath from Dietrich Luf von Kleve to Count Dietrich VI. sold by Kleve . In the text of the document, the parish " Herde " (Heerdt) was mentioned alongside others . Politically, the area then belonged to Kurköln from the beginning of the 14th century until 1801 and to the county of Hülchrath in the Middle Ages . This feudal county was finally acquired in two steps, 1314 and 1392 by the Electorates of Cologne. From 1392 Heerdt belonged to the Electoral Cologne Office of Linn . Presumably from 1542 a lower court was formed for the areas of Heerdt and Büderich. Its judgments had to be sealed by the Linn court .

The parish of Heerdt, which was subordinate to St. Quirin , is first mentioned in a document in 1308, but is likely to be significantly older, as the parish of Heerdt can be traced back to 1225. The hamlets of Ober- and Niederkassel as well as Lörick also belonged to the parish of Heerdt. According to a Kurkölner mill ban , the Heerdt farmers had to have their grain milled in the Geismühle near Linn for a long time. This was impractical as the Heerdt mill was far away. This mill ban was not lifted until 1575, as Kurköln granted permission to build a windmill for a fee. This mill was burned down by Landsknechten from Neuss as early as 1586 and only rebuilt in the middle of the 17th century.

In the second half of the 16th century, during the religious turmoil on the Lower Rhine, the Heerdter area was badly affected both in the Cologne War and at times in the Eighty Years' War , as the nearby Neuss was besieged and conquered several times. This also covered the area of ​​Heerdt with atrocities of war and the number of residents decreased. It is believed that the number of residents decreased from over 500 by 1550 to around 350 by 1600. The ownership structure in the Heerdt area was, as there was no aristocratic landowner, very fragmented. An examination of the ownership structure in the Heerdt area in 1599 showed that at least 30% were clerical property, over 25% belonged to Cologne, Neuss or Düsseldorf citizens and 15% to the nobility. Thus less than 30% was owned by local farmers and citizens.

The owners of the mentioned spiritual property were predominantly both the St. Quirinus pen and the Poor Clare convent in Neuss. In a document from 1598, for example, the Poor Clare Convention confirmed that an annual pension in favor of the Convention on the "Streithof" in Lurich in the parish of Heerdt was replaced.

At the end of the 18th century from 1794 the entire left Lower Rhine and thus also the area of ​​Heerdt was occupied by the French . In 1798 the rural community of Heerdt became part of the Département de la Roer in the Arrondissement de Crévelt and thus from 1801 a French Mairie . After the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire, the French left the left Lower Rhine in early 1814. After that, the Prussians took over the Lower Rhine temporarily and finally from 1815 onwards. Mairie Heerdt became the mayor's office in Heerdt, which in 1816 became part of the Neuss district . The two neighboring mayor's offices, Büderich and Heerdt, had a common mayor in the first half of the 19th century. The number of residents of Heerdt around 1832 was 1,172, all but two of whom were Catholic. The independence of the mayor's office of Heerdt with the associated localities of Ober- and Niederkassel as well as Lörick ended in 1909 when it was incorporated into Düsseldorf.

Historical population figures

year	Civil Meisterei Heerdt	Heerdt village	source
1801	933	331
1817	1,084	359
1832	1,172	420
1861	2.002	644
1871	2,682	925
1880	3.117
1885	3,456	1557
1895	4,396
1900	6,043	2,685
1907	11,712	3,934

Education in Heerdt

• Heinrich Heine Community Elementary School

Hospital in Heerdt

The Schön Klinik has been operating the former Dominikus Hospital of the Catholic Cherubine-Willimann Foundation Arenberg since January 2017 . The Bettenkauf, the city's only hospital on the left bank of the Rhine, stands prominently near the Heerdter Rhine front in line of sight to Düsseldorf's old town. The south-eastern hospital areas are being modernized. The remaining buildings were demolished and, together with the previous open-air site, made available for development with medical trade, assisted living and rental housing.

A new residential high-rise with the name “Rheinkilometer 740” is to be built on Pariser Strasse according to the plans of the Berlin architect Jürgen Mayer H.

Sacred buildings in Heerdt

• Ev. Paul-Gerhardt-Haus church, brick building from 1929, built by August Pramann, extensively rebuilt and expanded in 2008/2009 by the architect Andreas Brechtel. A glass cube as a new entrance portal illustrates the concept of the open church and provides a view of the chancel.
• Catholic Church of St. Benediktus , neo-Gothic church, built by the builder Heinrich Johann Freyse from 1844 to 1847.
• Catholic Church of St. Sacrament , former bunker, converted into a church in 1948 by Willy Weyres .

Urban development

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  St. Benedict

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  Bunker Church

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  Schoen Clinic Düsseldorf

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  Heinrich Heine Gardens

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  Vodafone campus

With the end of the use of cargo handling at Düsseldorf-Oberkassel train station along the historic Mönchengladbach – Düsseldorf railway line , restructuring gradually began in the commercial part of Oberkassel and the adjacent Heerdt. Outstanding are the Vodafone Campus , Heinrich Heine Gardens (luxury apartments) and Forum Oberkassel (both Hansaallee) construction projects , with Heerdt happily adding Oberkassel for marketing reasons. The conversion of a previous bunker with penthouse apartments with a car lift is ingenious. This project won the MIPIM Award, which is considered a real estate Oscar, in the category "best refurbished building" at the 2016 international real estate fair .

The trend towards reurbanization in the 2010s moved Heerdt from its location on the outskirts into the focus of urban planning. Downtown Düsseldorf can be reached quickly. A long-term planned new pedestrian and cyclist bridge over the Erft Canal is moving closer to the Rheinpark-Center in Neuss . The Düsseldorf tram is to be completed by a new bridge over the Rhine to the Düsseldorf trade fair.

Associations in Heerdt

• St. Sebastianus Schützenverein Düsseldorf-Heerdt 1573 eV
• HTV 1896 eV - Heerdter Turnverein
• CfR Links - Düsseldorf Club for Lawn Games Linksrheinisch 1919 eV
• Citizens' Association Heerdt eV
• Ökotop Heerdt eV
• Blasorchester St. Benediktus Düsseldorf Heerdt (church music, concert music, marching music)
• Drum Corps Düsseldorf-Heerdt 1922 eV
• Heerdt comedy stage
• TTC Union Düsseldorf eV 1947 (table tennis club)
• Children's, youth and adult choir St. Sebastianus Düsseldorf

Individual evidence

1. ^ Office for statistics and elections of the state capital Düsseldorf: Statistics for the district 042 - Heerdt
2. ↑ Heerdt coat of arms (English)
3. ↑ Lacomblet, Theodor Joseph: Archive for the history of the Lower Rhine. In: XIII. The last traces of the Franconian Salhof in Neuss . Volume 2, 1857, p. [338] 322. Online version
4. ↑ Lacomblet, Theodor Joseph: Archive for the history of the Lower Rhine. In: The Mark and Forest Cooperatives, XV. Heerdter forest . Volume 3, 1860, p. [256] 248. Online version
5. ↑ AJBinterim, JHMooren, in: The Archdiocese of Cologne up to the French state upheaval . 1892, p. [130] 108.
6. ^ In: History in Düsseldorf . Under: Chronicle of the City of Düsseldorf until 2002 .
7. ↑ Lacomblet, Theodor Joseph, in: Document books for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cöln . 1857, Volume 2, Certificate 1011, p. [832] 594.
8. ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt, in: Düsseldorf, history from the beginnings to the 20th century , 2nd edition. 1990, Volume 1, ISBN 3-491-34221-X , pp. 399 + 400.
9. ^ Karl Maercker: The ecclesiastical development of the parish of St. Benedictus and the dean's office in Düsseldorf-Heerdt . In: Bürgererverein Heerdt (Ed.): Heerdt im Wandel der Zeit , Vol. 2. Düsseldorf 1980, pp. 53–69.
10. ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt, in: Düsseldorf, history from the beginnings to the 20th century , 2nd edition. 1990, Volume 1, ISBN 3-491-34221-X , p. 400.
11. ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt, in: Düsseldorf, history from the beginnings to the 20th century. 2nd Edition. 1990, Volume 1, ISBN 3-491-34221-X , p. 399.
12. ↑ Tuecking, Karl, in: documents and files from the archive to the Clares Neuss, act 213 of 1598 , 1896, Neuss, S. [71] Online version 67
13. ↑ The Mairien in the Département de la Roër in 1806, 1808 and 1813 from: genealogienetz.de (16 Aug 2010)
14. ↑ Dusseldorf, Werbrunn, in: The Rhine province of the Prussian monarchy. 1833, p. [125] 89. Digitized edition of the ULB Düsseldorf
15. ^ Heerdt through the ages V, Heerdt Citizens Association, 2000
16. ↑ ^{a b c d} Düsseldorf on the left bank of the Rhine, Hugo Weidenhaupt, Düsseldorf 1984
17. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, accessed on May 5, 2019 (digitized version). 
18. ↑ 1871 census
19. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland 1885
20. ↑ ^{a b} Heerdt through the ages VII, Heerdt Citizens' Association, 2009
21. ↑ cws-kliniken.de , website
22. ↑ Heerdter Hospital ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
23. ↑ issuu.com: FALTIN ​​+ SATTLER, documentation of the expert review procedure rkm 740
24. ↑ Fact sheet Forum Oberkassel ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
25. ↑ deal-magazin.com: The metamorphosis of a Düsseldorf bunker , 10/2013.
26. ↑ neuss-an-den-rhein.de: Masterplan 2012 ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

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