History of the city of Duisburg

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This article provides an overview of the history of the city of Duisburg .

Roman and post-Roman times

Excavations suggest the first Roman settlements on today's Burgplatz in the 1st century - to secure the crossing of the Rhine and the mouth of the Ruhr. In 420 the area of ​​today's Duisburg old town was settled, Franconians from the interior of Germania took over the supremacy from the Romans. The Normans (or Vikings ) conquered Duisburg in 883 and wintered here. The earliest dated written and unambiguous mention of Duisburg comes from the chronicle of Regino von Prüm . This manuscript is now in the city library of Trier .

In the 10th century, Duisburg was twice the scene of larger assemblies: In 929, Henry I held an imperial assembly in Duisburg and in 944, Otto the Great summoned the feudal men of Franconia and Lorraine in Duisburg. Between 929 and 1129 a total of 17 royal and imperial stays in Duisburg are documented.

middle Ages

From about 950 to 1045 Duisburg and Kaiserswerth were owned by the Ezzone . The Count Palatine of Aachen represented the royal interests in the city until the king recognized Duisburg as an imperial property around 1045 and appointed an imperial bailiff as the royal administrator. In the 11th century a coin from Duisburg reached the Faroe Islands , as the coin find from Sandur shows.

The Rhine shifted its main stream away from Duisburg around 1000, and the resulting old branch of the Rhine remained navigable for a long time. In 1120 a city fortification was built. Five years later, Henry V visited the city. The Order of St. John founded its first German settlement in front of the southern gate of the city in 1145. The place was further enhanced when Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa granted Duisburg in 1173 the right to hold two fortnightly cloth fairs a year.

Through the mediation of the Archbishop of Cologne Konrad von Hochstaden , the imperial city of Duisburg joined the rival king Wilhelm of Holland in 1248 . In 1272 the first Church of Our Lady "Maria taken into heaven" was consecrated on the edge of the Burgplatz. Because of the adjoining monastery, it was also called the Minorite Church. According to a document from King Lothar III. was Duisburg city in 1279. Shortly afterwards, in 1290, Duisburg was pledged to the Count of Kleve.

The flood of the millennium in 1342, also known as the Magdalene flood, distributed very large amounts of sediment in the floodplain. Around the 14th century , the dead arm of the Rhine silted up, cutting off the city from the Rhine and losing its freedom from customs duties and the right to hold trade fairs . Duisburg was also affected by the Black Death , a major European pandemic with the plague pathogen Yersinia pestis , in 1349 . In 1407 Duisburg became a member of the Hanseatic League . A raid by the troops of the Archbishop of Cologne during the Soest feud was repelled in 1445. From 1474 to 1517 the Duisburg clergyman Johann Wassenberch wrote a chronicle in the Lower Franconian language, which is known as the "Duisburg Chronicle".

Modern times and industrialization

Duisburg around 1647

The cartographer Gerhard Mercator settled in Duisburg with his family in 1552 and taught from 1559 to 1562 at the Academic Gymnasium Duisburg, today's Landfermann-Gymnasium . In 1566 Johannes Corputius completed the colored city ​​plan .

The first Duisburg university was built in 1655. The city fell to Brandenburg and Prussia in 1666 with the Duchy of Cleves . Elector Friedrich Wilhelm forbade the city to continue to designate itself as an imperial city ​​in 1674 . At the same time there was a regular shipping connection with Nijmegen ( Börtschifffahrt ). In 1693, the council granted the weaver Heinrich Wintgens permission to set up a manufacture.

In 1713, Friedrich Wilhelm I forbade the Klevian cities to elect councilors and mayors. The first port basin was built in Ruhrort three years later. The first edition of the "Duisburger Intellektivenblatt" appeared in 1717, and in 1763 Johann Gerhard Böninger founded the first tobacco factory in Duisburg. From 1770 the Ruhr was expanded to become a shipping route.

As part of the area on the right bank of the Rhine of the former Duchy of Kleve , Duisburg became French in 1805. Under Napoleon, the new area was temporarily added to the Grand Duchy of Berg , and French rule ended in 1813. In 1816, Duisburg became a Prussian city again. It was subordinated to the Kleve government and in the course of the Prussian administrative division after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 assigned to the district of Dinslaken in the Prussian province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , which was united with the province of Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine to form the Rhine province in 1822 . In 1818 the old University of Duisburg was dissolved. One year after the unification of the administrative districts of Kleve and Düsseldorf, the new district of Duisburg was formed in 1823 from the districts of Dinslaken and Essen . Ms. W. Curtius built a sulfuric acid factory in 1824, which started industrialization. In 1828 Franz Haniel opened a shipyard for steamers in Ruhrort, followed by the establishment of the E. Matthes & Weber soda factory in 1837.

The Kuhtor was the last of the four large Duisburg city gates to be demolished in 1833. In 1846 the main line of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft reached Duisburg, in the following year the continuation of the line through the northern Ruhr area to Minden was completed. With the establishment of the Niederrheinische Hütte in 1851, the iron and steel industry began in the city. The "Phoenix" hut in Ruhrort followed in 1852 and the "Vulkan" hut in 1854. The first mining shaft in the city was built in 1855 when the “Java” shaft was sunk . Two years later, the lowering of the “Ruhr und Rhein” shaft in Ruhrort was initiated. The Harkort company founded a branch in Hochfeld in 1860. Demag later emerged from the bridge construction company . The Rheinische Stahlwerke were founded in Meiderich in 1870, and coal mining began in the Westend mine a year later . The German Emperors ' union was established in Hamborn and began mining coal in 1876.

Duisburg and Essen left the Duisburg district in 1873 and became urban districts . In 1876 the Duisburg copper smelter was founded . The first horse tram was opened between Duisburg and Ruhrort in 1881. The grand opening of the Tonhalle Duisburg followed on November 16, 1886 . The Duisburg grain exchange was established in 1892. The expanded Liebfrauenkirche was consecrated in 1896 after the church, which had become too small, had received a colossal new building in 1272 and the old Liebfrauenkirche had been integrated as a side aisle. In the same year the first electric tram line went into operation. The equestrian statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I was unveiled on the Kaiserberg in 1898 .

In 1901 the Schifferbörse was established in Ruhrort . A year later the Meidericher Spielverein 02 was founded, today MSV Duisburg . Meiderich, Ruhrort and Duisburg were merged in 1905 to form the city of Greater Duisburg. Two years later, the Rhine bridge between Ruhrort and Homberg was opened to traffic. In 1911 Hamborn , a center of the German iron and steel industry and a later district of Duisburg, left the district of Dinslaken and became an urban district with a population of 103,000. The Duisburg City Theater was inaugurated on November 7, 1912. In July 1917, Duisburg was the target of enemy air raids, but no people were harmed. The authorities took aerial protection measures, but air strikes were an exception during World War I. In 1918 workers 'and soldiers' councils also took power in the cities of the Ruhr area. Wild strikes broke out at the German Kaiser colliery in Hamborn and spread throughout the Ruhr area.

Weimar Republic and National Socialism

In 1919 the Duisburg sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck committed suicide in Berlin. In 1921 the Duisburg soccer club from 1899 and the gymnastics club from 1848 merged to form the Duisburg gymnastics and sports club from 1848/90, which became the most successful soccer club in the Ruhr area in the 1920s. On March 8th of that year the French Infantry Regiment 168 advanced into the cities of Duisburg and Düsseldorf because of outstanding reparations . With the occupation of Duisburg, France secured a key position for the occupation of the rest of the Ruhr area. The freedom of assembly was abolished and the Duisburg press was subject to censorship. Bochum and Duisburg merged into a theater community in 1921, Saladin Schmitt became the artistic director . From the bridgeheads in Duisburg and Düsseldorf, French and Belgian troops began to occupy the Ruhr area in January 1923. The Duisburg sub-group of the separatist group "Rhenish Independence League" proclaimed the "Rhenish Republic" on October 22nd. The French and Belgians ended the rule of the Duisburg separatists on November 29th. It was not until September 1925 that the last French troops left the Duisburg city area.

In 1929 the urban districts of Duisburg and Hamborn were merged to form the new urban district of Duisburg-Hamborn , which was renamed the urban district of Duisburg in 1935. During the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, the National Socialists destroyed the large synagogue on Junkerstrasse.

Second World War

Among other things on 12./13. In June 1941, British machines dropped 445 tons of bombs. On the night of bombing on September 6, 1942, the Duisburg Tonhalle was irretrievably destroyed. A year later, 577 British bombers were ashed on 12/13. May the entire inner city of Duisburg with 1599 tons of bombs and made 96,000 people homeless.

A Lancaster throws on 14 October 1944, a land mine and 108 30-pound incendiary bombs (left) and 1170 4-pound incendiary bombs (right) on Duisburg.

In 1944, the city as a whole suffered the most severe damage when, among other things, over 2000 tons of bombs fell on May 22nd, an amount that was lost on May 14th and 15th. October was more than quadrupled when more than 1,000 Halifax , Lancaster and Mosquito bombers appeared over Duisburg in three waves of attack . Numerous other major attacks of a similar magnitude followed. In the last year of the war, in addition to the bomb damage, the destruction during the final battle for the city, which lay on the northwestern edge of the Ruhr basin and had been bombarded with artillery since the end of February 1945 . While the war was over for the north of the city on March 28, the war in the city areas south of the Ruhr did not end until April 12, 1945 with the invasion of members of the 17th Airborne Division , part of the 9th US Army.

Post-war and present

The first democratic local election after World War II took place in 1946. The August Thyssen ironworks, the Niederrheinische Hütte and other plants were on the Allied dismantling list in 1947. Three years later the Duisburg-Rheinhausener Rheinbrücke was inaugurated and the Duisburg City Theater reopened. In 1956, the construction of the north-south road began , which was to connect the north with the south of the city. The first section was opened in March 1957. After the destruction of the historic Liebfrauenkirche in 1942, the new Liebfrauenkirche was inaugurated elsewhere in 1961 in the new city center on König-Heinrich-Platz . A year later, the construction of the six lakes plate began in the south of the city. Several new museums opened in the next few years: the newly built Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum in 1964, the Niederrheinisches Museum in 1969, and the Maritime Museum in 1974. Also in 1969 the motorway junction Duisburg-Kaiserberg was opened to traffic.

In the course of the founding of new universities in the 1960s, the University of Education was opened in 1968, and the Duisburg Comprehensive University was founded in 1972. In 1975 the places Walsum , Homberg , Rheinhausen , Rumeln-Kaldenhausen and Baerl were incorporated . The cities concerned were able to successfully defend themselves against plans by the state government to include the cities of Moers , Kamp-Lintfort , Rheinberg-Baerl , Neukirchen-Vluyn and Kapellen , which would have made Duisburg have a population of well over 700,000. The first high point of the steel crisis, which began in 1975, was in 1977. Since 1974 crude steel production has fallen from 32.2 million tons to 21.5 million. The crisis had affected large parts of the Ruhr area. In the manufacturing industry, 200,000 jobs were lost in the Ruhr area. In 1977 the first budget security concept was published. On January 17, 1979, a smog alarm was triggered for the first time in Duisburg and large parts of the Ruhr area .

The first crime scene with Horst Schimanski was broadcast in 1981. There were territorial-wide protests by steel workers against the intention of closing and firing steel companies in the Ruhr area in 1982. Krupp shut down the rolling mill in Duisburg-Rheinhausen that year. In Duisburg and other cities in the western Ruhr area, the highest smog alarm level was triggered in January 1985. Günter Wallraff's book “Ganz unten” appeared on the market in the same year. In 1987 Krupp intended to close the Krupp ironworks , which resulted in protracted protests by workers, including on the Bridge of Solidarity . 1989 Duisburg judged the XV. Summer Universiade .

In 1990 plans were drawn up to convert the Duisburg inner harbor . As part of the Emscher Park International Building Exhibition , a new waterfront district was created north of the old town. In the same year, Radio Duisburg started as the first local private radio in North Rhine-Westphalia. The port of Duisburg was the first in Europe to receive a free trade zone in 1991 and celebrated its 275th anniversary. A year later the Duisburg Stadtbahn opened . In 1997 the 250 m high chimney of the former Fina refinery in Duisburg was removed. The new Jewish community center with synagogue at the inner harbor was opened in 1999.

On July 18, 2004, Duisburg was hit by a tornado , which knocked over two loading cranes in the port, covered the city theater and caused further damage. The Duisburg Community Foundation was founded in 2004 . A majority in the city council rejected the construction of a supra-regional shopping center on June 29, 2005. That year, Duisburg hosted the World Games , the world games of non-Olympic sports. The first local commercial television station in North Rhine-Westphalia went on air on March 20, 2006 with Studio 47 - Stadtfernsehen Duisburg. On February 1, 2007, the new WDR Studio Duisburg was opened on Schifferstrasse in Duisburg-Kasslerfeld. After the accident at the Love Parade 2010 , a total of 21 people died in hospitals on July 24th and on the following days. As a result, the then Lord Mayor Adolf Sauerland was removed from office on February 12, 2012 in a previously unique removal process . His successor was the social democrat Sören Link .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Duisburg: Roman column in the old town , rp-online.de , January 6, 2011
  2. ^ Dispargum - royal seat, imperial palace, Hanseatic city. November 18, 2018, accessed September 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Karl Hed: History of Kaiserwerth - Chronicle of the city, the monastery and the castle with consideration of the surrounding area . 2nd Edition. Emil Bierbaum / Düsseldorf, 1925, p. 48 .
  4. ^ Schmitz Lintorf: Historical images from the district of Düsseldorf - 1st part . 1920, p. 9 .
  5. ↑ Karl Hed: History of Kaiserwerth - Chronicle of the city, the monastery and the castle with consideration of the surrounding area . 2nd Edition. Emil Bierbaum / Düsseldorf, 1925, p. 26, 50-51, 62 .
  6. ^ Walter Ring with contributions by Erich Schmoerbel and L. Kalthoff: Heimatchronik der Stadt Duisburg . 1954, p. 11 .
  7. ↑ Karl Hed: History of Kaiserwerth - Chronicle of the city, the monastery and the castle with consideration of the surrounding area . 2nd Edition. Emil Bierbaum / Düsseldorf, 1925, p. 253 .
  8. ↑ Duisburg Chronicle
  9. ^ Walter Ring with contributions by Erich Schmoerbel and L. Kalthoff: Heimatchronik der Stadt Duisburg . 1954, p. 80 f .
  10. ^ Walter Ring with contributions by Erich Schmoerbel and L. Kalthoff: Heimatchronik der Stadt Duisburg . 1954, p. 191 .
  11. ^ Heinrich Averdunk ( newly edited by Walter Ring ): History of the city of Duisburg . 2nd Edition. Aloys Henn Verlag, 1949, p. 176 .
  12. ^ Heinrich Averdunk ( newly edited by Walter Ring ): History of the city of Duisburg . 2nd Edition. Aloys Henn Verlag, 1949, p. 140 .
  13. ^ Heinrich Averdunk ( newly edited by Walter Ring ): History of the city of Duisburg . 2nd Edition. Aloys Henn Verlag, 1949, p. 410 .
  14. ^ Heinrich Averdunk ( newly edited by Walter Ring ): History of the city of Duisburg . 2nd Edition. Aloys Henn Verlag, 1949, p. 184 .
  15. ^ Walter Ring with contributions by Erich Schmoerbel and L. Kalthoff: Heimatchronik der Stadt Duisburg . 1954, p. 211 .
  16. ^ Walter Ring with contributions by Erich Schmoerbel and L. Kalthoff: Heimatchronik der Stadt Duisburg . 1954, p. 126 .
  17. ↑ Karl Hed: History of Kaiserwerth - Chronicle of the city, the monastery and the castle with consideration of the surrounding area . 2nd Edition. Emil Bierbaum / Düsseldorf, 1925, p. 444 .
  18. ^ Walter Ring with contributions by Erich Schmoerbel and L. Kalthoff: Heimatchronik der Stadt Duisburg . 1954, p. 139 .
  19. ^ Walter Ring with contributions by Erich Schmoerbel and L. Kalthoff: Heimatchronik der Stadt Duisburg . 1954, p. 68 .
  20. ^ Heinrich Averdunk ( newly edited by Walter Ring ): History of the city of Duisburg . 2nd Edition. Aloys Henn Verlag, 1949, p. 235 .
  21. ^ Heinrich Averdunk ( newly edited by Walter Ring ): History of the city of Duisburg . 2nd Edition. Aloys Henn Verlag, 1949, p. 241-243 .
  22. ^ Heinrich Averdunk ( newly edited by Walter Ring ): History of the city of Duisburg . 2nd Edition. Aloys Henn Verlag, 1949, p. 230 .
  23. ^ Heinrich Averdunk ( newly edited by Walter Ring ): History of the city of Duisburg . 2nd Edition. Aloys Henn Verlag, 1949, p. 268 .
  24. ^ Heinrich Averdunk ( newly edited by Walter Ring ): History of the city of Duisburg . 2nd Edition. Aloys Henn Verlag, 1949, p. 289-293 .
  25. ^ Heinrich Averdunk ( newly edited by Walter Ring ): History of the city of Duisburg . 2nd Edition. Aloys Henn Verlag, 1949, p. 303-312 .
  26. ^ Heinrich Averdunk ( newly edited by Walter Ring ): History of the city of Duisburg . 2nd Edition. Aloys Henn Verlag, 1949, p. 312-336 .
  27. ↑ History of the Maritime Museum on www.duisburg.de ( Memento of 2 July 2010 at the Internet Archive ) (accessed on 3 September 2010)
  28. ↑ a b The institute in the course of time and technical progress on the website of the Institute for Metallurgy and Forming Technology (accessed on April 23, 2013)
  29. ↑ Article at planet-wissen.de; August 25, 2008 ( Memento of March 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  30. ↑ Spiegel article on smog (accessed April 23, 2013)
  31. ↑ The example of the Duisburg-Rheinhausen steelworks at Regionalkunde Ruhrgebiet ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 23, 2013)
  32. ↑ Article, at wdr Wissen, about the smog alarm 1985 in the Ruhr area ( Memento from January 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 3, 2010)
  33. ↑ Spiegel article on the smog alarm from January 21, 1985 (accessed on September 3, 2010)
  34. ^ Steel crisis: Krupp closes the "Rheinhausen" plant ( Memento from May 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at NRW 2000 (accessed on April 23, 2013)
  35. ↑ Universiade at duisburgnonstop.de (accessed on April 23, 2013)
  36. ↑ History of the Duisburg Stadtbahn at www.duisburgnonstop.de (accessed on September 3, 2010)
  37. ↑ tornado over Duisburg on 18 July 2004 (accessed on 3 September 2010)
  38. ↑ WDR Studio Duisburg on www.duisburg.de ( Memento from June 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 3, 2010)

literature

General representations

  • Heinrich Averdunk , History of the city of Duisburg up to the final union with the Hohenzollern family (1666) ; Duisburg 1894
  • ders. u. Walter Ring, History of the City of Duisburg , Essen 1927; 2nd edition Ratingen 1949
  • Liselotte Cremer u. a. (Arr.), Duisburg. Selection list from the holdings of the city archive and the city library ; Duisburg 1983, ISBN 3-923576-02-1
  • Jan-Pieter Barbian (eds.), Eberhard Kröger and Manfred Komorowski (edit.): Duisburg Bibliography: Directory of the writings on Duisburg for the period 1987 to 2001 . 1st edition, Essen 2004. ISBN 3-89861-306-2
  • Evangelical Church in Duisburg ; Duisburg (?) 1950
  • Ludger Heid u. a., Brief history of the city of Duisburg. From the beginning to the 80s ; 4. unchangeable Ed., Duisburg 1996, ISBN 3-87096-170-8
  • Günter von Roden , History of the City of Duisburg , 2 vol .; Vol. 1: The old Duisburg from the beginning until 1905 , 5th edition, Duisburg 1980; Vol. 2: The districts from the beginning. The entire city since 1905 , 2. improved. Ed., Duisburg 1979
  • August Christian Borheck , attempt at a history of the city of Duisburg on the Rhine , reprint of the Duisburg 1800 edition, Duisburg, 1976, ISBN 3870961309
  • Rheinisches Städtebuch ; Volume III 3rd volume from “German City Book. Handbook of urban history - on behalf of the working group of historical commissions and with the support of the German Association of Cities, the German Association of Cities and the German Association of Municipalities ”, ed. by Erich Keyser, Stuttgart, 1956
  • Gerd Brouwer, Duisburg - yesterday and today ; Duisburg 1969
  • Hermann Freytag u. Otto Most, Duisburg ; Berlin 1937
  • General traffic plan Duisburg , 2 vol .; ed. vd City of Duisburg; Duisburg 1963
  • Les guides nail. Düsseldorf and Duisburg ; Geneva 1960
  • Wilhelm Meyer-Markau, home air. Duisburg stories ; Facsimile of the first edition from 1907, Duisburg 1982
  • Joseph Milz et al. a., Duisburg ; Munich 1980
  • Günter von Roden : History of the city of Duisburg. Volume I: The old Duisburg from the beginning until 1905 . Duisburg: Walter Braun Verlag, 1975
  • Günter von Roden: History of the city of Duisburg. Volume II: The districts from the beginning, the entire city since 1905 . Duisburg: Walter Braun Verlag, 1974
  • Walter Ring, Duisburg. An overview ; in: Evangelisch-Sozial 36 (1931), 55–58
  • Carl Rothe, The City of Montan ; ed. vd Mercator Society Duisburg; Duisburg 1954
  • Twelve years in Duisburg 1950–1962 ; ed. vd City of Duisburg; Duisburg 1963
  • Arend Mihm, The Chronicle of Johann Wassenberch , Duisburg 1981, ISBN 3-87463-095-1

Management issues

  • Hermann Waterkamp, The population of Duisburg. Her career and composition , from the series "Volkstum im Ruhrgebiet", Essen 1941
  • Lotte Adolphs, Teacher Behavior in the 19th Century. Duisburg teacher between obedience and self-determination ; in: DuF 23, 44-105
  • Albert Bakker, The Dutch Churches in Duisburg and Ruhrort ; in: DuF 17, 47-52
  • Henning van den Brink, homelessness. A repressed phenomenon on the fringes of society ; (Duisburg contributions to sociological research 7/2004); Duisburg 2004 ( online )
  • Reinhard Bulitz, The “Gleichschaltung” of the trade unions. The events of May 2, 1933 in Duisburg. Reports and documents Duisburg ; ed. vd IG Metall, 1983
  • Josef Dransfeld, On the ecclesiastical integration of Polish immigrants in the Duisburg area until 1914 ; Duisburg 1977
  • Ghettos or Ethnic Colony? Development opportunities of city districts with a high proportion of immigrants ; ed. vd Research Institute of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Department of Labor and Social Policy; (= Work and Social Discussion Group 85); Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-86077-725-4 ( online )
  • Community regulations of the evangelical community Duisburg ; [Duisburg] 1910
  • Parish regulations of the evangelical parish in Duisburg ; Duisburg 1913
  • Eberhard Grunsky, Four Settlements in Duisburg 1925-1930 ; (= Technical monuments, workbook 12); ed. v. State Conservator Rhineland; Cologne 1975
  • Handbook of the Evangelical Congregations of the Duisburg Synod ; Dortmund 1950
  • W. Holtmann, Festschrift for the Golden Jubilee of the Catholic Journeyman's Association Duisburg a. Rh .; Duisburg 1927
  • Rudolf Löhr, Duisburg Consistorial Files ; in: Duisburger Forschungen 4 (1961), 208f.
  • Carl Niessen, own operas in Duisburg ; Duisburg 1958
  • Wilhelm Rotscheidt, History of the French Reformed Congregation in Duisburg ; (= Writings of the Duisburger Museumsverein 6); Duisburg undated
  • Ingo Runde, Die Duisburger Stadtrechnungen from 1348/49 to 1407. Approaches to an interdisciplinary source evaluation, in: Annalen des Historisches Verein für den Niederrhein , Volume 200, 1997, pp. 39-74.
  • Walter Schmidt, Directory of Duisburg Pastors (1538-1936) ; compiled v. Walter Schmidt, [Duisburg (approx.) 1936]
  • Egon Verheyen, architectural and art monuments in Duisburg ; (= DuF, Suppl. 7); Duisburg 1966
  • C. Wrampelmeyer, History of the Smaller Evangelical (Lutheran) Church in Duisburg, Duisburg ; no year [ca 1887]
  • Carl Wilkes (ed.), Inventory of the archive of the Protestant community in Duisburg ; (= Inventories of non-state archives of the Rhine Province 1); Among employees v. Walter Schmidt arr. v. Carl Wilkes; Duisburg 1941
  • Steffen Zdun, Russian-German and the police in Duisburg. On the confidence of Russian-German repatriates in the police ; (Duisburg Contributions to Sociological Research 1/2004); Duisburg 2004 ( online )
  • Joseph Milz, Everyday Life in Medieval Duisburg, in: DuF 45, 2000, pp. 25–37
  • Joseph Milz, seal and coat of arms of the old Duisburg lay judge families in the 13th and 14th centuries, in: DuF 23, 1976, pp. 12–22
  • Joseph Milz, The Duissern Monastery after its relocation to Duisburg, in: DuF 23, 1976, pp. 23–43
  • Joseph Milz, investigations into the building history of the Marienkirche in Duisburg, in: DuF 27, 1979, pp. 21-27
  • Johann Hildebrand Withof: The chronicle of the city of Duisburg , from the beginnings to the year 1742, Netphen 2008, ISBN 978-3837025309
  • Weekly Duisburg to the interest of the Commercien, the clever, Geldrischen, Moers- and Märckischen, also surrounding country places, furnished address and Intelligentz-slips: from what to see: what movable and immovable goods to buy and sell, likewise what for things to be lent, to lean, to gamble away and to lease appear, lost, found or stolen, so then people, which etc. - Duisburg, 1732–1767. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Weekly advertisements in Duisburg . - Duisburg, 1768–1775. Digitized edition

Corputius plan from 1566

  • Duisburg in 1566 (Veriss. Ex actiss. Q. Topographia Duisburgi urbis antiquiss. Veter. Francor. Regiae atq. Etiam ipsiss. Eiusdem ad vivu effigiesi ita ut nihil desit), city map, publishing house for economy and culture Renckhoff Duisburg 1964
  • Duisburg in 1566: the city map of Johannes Corputius (= Duisburger Forschungen 40), edit. by Joseph Milz / Günter von Roden, Duisburg 1993. ISBN 3870960515
  • The Duisburg city map of Johannes Corputius from 1566, multimedia CD-Rom, ed. from the Gerhard-Mercator-Gesellschaft eV, Duisburg 2002 ( online ); Related literature: Heike Hawicks, The Duisburger city map of Johannes Corputius from 1566. From the early modern “advertising brochure” to the modern multimedia CD-ROM, in: Duisburger Forschungen 51, 2004, pp. 225–234.
  • Joseph Milz: The Duisburg city map of Johannes Corputius and its surveying bases. in DuF 45, 2000, pp. 1-23.

Universities

Old University:

  • Dieter Geuenich, Irmgard Hantsche (ed.): On the history of the University of Duisburg 1655–1818 (= Duisburg research, vol. 53). Mercator-Verlag, Duisburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-87463-406-0 .
  • Walter Ring: History of the University of Duisburg . Self-published by the city administration, Duisburg 1920.
  • Günter von Roden: The University of Duisburg . With a contribution "The plan to found a university in Duisburg" by Hubert Jedin (= Duisburger Forschungen, Vol. 12). Braun, Duisburg 1968.

Start-up:

  • Klaus Bussmann, Holger Heith: Chronicle of the first 25 years of life of the Gerhard Mercator University / GH Duisburg, which saw the light of day as a comprehensive university in Duisburg, 1972–1997 . Self-published by the University of Duisburg 1997, ISBN 3-00-001433-0 .
  • Helmut Schrey: The University of Duisburg. History and present. Traditions, people, problems . Braun, Duisburg 1982, ISBN 3-87096-166-X .