Unterbach (Düsseldorf)

Unterbach district of the state capital Düsseldorf
Basic data
Geographic location :	51 ° 12 ′  N , 6 ° 54 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′  N , 6 ° 54 ′  E
Height:	42  m above sea  level
Surface:	9.12 km²
Residents:	7,641 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	838 inhabitants per km²
District:	District 8
District number:	084
Transport links
Autobahn :
Bus route:	735 737 781 891 O 6
Night traffic:	NE 6 DL 4

Unterbach has been a district of Düsseldorf , the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia , since the municipal reorganization in 1975 . Until then it was part of Erkrath . A part of Unterbach, called Unterfeldhaus , was split off during the reorganization and remained as an independent district at Erkrath. The area around the Elbsee of the city of Hilden , the nature-protected part of the Eller Forest and an eastern corner of the Düsseldorf district of Vennhausen , the development of which was seamlessly connected to that of Unterbach and had already formed a cultural unit with it, were added to Unterbach. In Unterbach, with the Unterbacher See and the Elbsee, there is an important local recreation area in the greater Düsseldorf area with the largest swimming lake in the vicinity.

location

Düsseldorf-Unterbach

Club house Unterbach

Unterbach is located in the southeast of the city of Düsseldorf and with an area of ​​9.12 km² it is the fifth largest district in Düsseldorf. A large part of this area is the Unterbacher See recreational area, which is only connected to the Elbsee, separated only by the A 46 . Street names such as Vennstrasse and Großer and Kleiner Porfbruch are evidence of the fact that bog colonization was carried out around the lake in Unterbach as well as in the neighboring town of Düsseldorf-Vennhausen . Unterbach is separated from the neighboring districts of Düsseldorf by a forest belt. The first foothills of the Bergisches Land border the Lower Rhine plain here and give Unterbach a hilly character compared to the rest of Düsseldorf. Starting at Unterbacher See, Unterbach stretches up the foot of the Korresberg, which rises behind the closed development in the urban area of ​​Erkrath to a height of 108 meters. This location, the local recreation area Unterbacher See / Eller Forst and the Unterbacher Forest, which is partly in the Erkrath area, make it a district with high residential quality. Unterbach has around 7,650 inhabitants (as of 12/2016), with a low population density of 838 inhabitants / km² compared to urban areas.

history

Unterbacher Monument
The names of the gentlemen from the Unterbach House are carved into the pillars.

The eastern part of today's Unterbach district was on the historic Mauspfad trade route . For the early 11th century, a well-fortified residential mound is assumed on today's eastern edge of the village. A knight's seat later developed from this. In 1169 a water castle and its owner, Heriman de Onterbeke, were mentioned in a document. The castle was a place of refuge and labor farm for the farmers from the surrounding farms. The castle, later called Haus Unterbach , became the eponym and nucleus of the village Unterbach, which slowly developed as a street village.

See main article: → House Unterbach

One of the oldest farms, "Gut Rothenberg", was mentioned in a document in 1312 and still exists today. The "Rohrsmühle", now in Erkrath-Unterfeldhaus, has existed since at least 1584. In 1628, as the owners of this mill, the Lords of Unterbach brought a lawsuit before the Imperial Court of Justice for the fairness of the meal against the owners of Haus Morp .

Unterbach initially developed along the current Gerresheimer Landstrasse , which is still the main street of the district today. The customs and inn Am Zault was mentioned here in 1561 . The restaurant and the attached hotel still exist today. In 1715 Unterbach only had five houses. It was not until 1800 that a small town had formed around the Unterbach house. In 1810 a first private school was built, teaching about 30 children. One of the first teachers was Theodor Brors. His son Franz Jos. Brors was the first person who took care of the history of the place and its surroundings and recorded it for posterity. The small, half-timbered school building was demolished in 1958 and replaced by today's Carl-Sonnenschein-Schule. After the small community had collected money for the construction of a church for 15 years, the foundation stone for a Catholic church was finally laid in 1881. The building, inaugurated in 1883, had to be demolished in 1967 due to its dilapidation. The Catholic clubhouse designed by the architect Josef Kleesattel joined the church in 1908 . The building was listed as a historical monument in 1987. Together with the Gasthof Am Zault , the clubhouse forms the center of public and cultural life in Unterbach, which is shaped by the local clubs.

In 1923, the extraction of gravel began in the "Unterbacher Benden", a former arm of the Rhine and wetland . In 1935 a large excavator hole had already been created where the Eselsbach used to be. On December 31, 1942, five people died in a bomb attack that largely destroyed the buildings on the “Gut Rothenberg” farm.

In the post-war period, a lot of construction work began in Unterbach. In 1949 the first settlements for new residents were built on Flachskampstrasse. Settlements on Heidberg and Silberberg followed. The first houses were ready for occupancy as early as 1951. In the mid-1950s, the settlement on Weyersberg was built and from 1961 the area around the former weaver's house "Hexkotten" was built on. In 1954 the Bendensee was declared a bathing lake, in the course of which it was renamed the Unterbacher See and in 1959 the first bathing house was set up on the north beach of the lake.

Curiosity of communal restructuring

On January 1, 1975, large parts of Unterbach were reclassified from Erkrath to Düsseldorf under the Düsseldorf law passed by the NRW state parliament . A part of Unterbach, called Unterfeldhaus, remained as an independent district in Erkrath. The curious demarcation along the main street turned neighbors across the street from one day to the next into citizens of different cities. Until it was incorporated, this main street was called Gerresheimer Straße . Since this street name already existed in Düsseldorf, it was renamed Gerresheimer Landstrasse - also on the section that remained in Erkrath . The continuous house numbering was retained across borders. The Unterbach house as the original cell of Unterbach, as well as parts of the Unterbacher Forest and the sports field of the SC Unterbach football club, remained in the Erkrath area. Despite this administrative separation, the cultural, church and club life in Unterbach and Unterfeldhaus are like in a single district. All clubs direct their offer to both locations. In addition, many children from Unterbach attend secondary schools in Erkrath. The churches of both denominations form an administrative unit with their respective counterparts in Unterfeldhaus and Erkrath.

Since many of the street names in Unterbach already existed in Düsseldorf, around half of them had to be renamed for clear identification.

politics

Only two parties have their own local branches in Unterbach, the CDU and the SPD . Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and the FDP , on the other hand, organize themselves in city district groups.

Culture

Donkey monument with Breidenplatz in the background

As a district that is spatially separated from Düsseldorf, Unterbach has retained its village character and is characterized by lively club and church life. Unterbach has retained a unique position within the Düsseldorf carnival : It is the only district with an independent carnival committee, prince couple and parade. This was also the nucleus of the bands "Halve Hahn" and "Alt-Schuss", known in the greater Düsseldorf area and singing in half-mouth style. The latter had her biggest hit with "Die Sterne sparkele", which was originally the motto song of the 1997 session at the Unterbacher Carnival. The catchment area of ​​the events and in particular the parade in the Unterbacher Carnival, which is particularly determined by the "Carnival Committee Unterbach 1957 e. V. "is maintained, extends to the surrounding cities.

The office of the regional association of music schools in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Association of German Music Schools is located at Breidenplatz .

The heraldic animal Unterbachs is a donkey jumping over the Eselsbach located here. A donkey cast in bronze is set up in the center of the village at “Breidenplatz”. The fool's call in Unterbach is the donkey's sound "IA" as opposed to the "Helau" in the rest of Düsseldorf. The carnival parade is also led by a living donkey. New citizens can get beaten up. This donkey culture has its origins in the fact that Düsseldorf was partly built out of and on the sand that came from the pebbles of the Unterbacher See and its surroundings. The sand used to be transported on donkeys along the Eselsbach and the sand carrier path that is still called today. The remark “The Unterbacher donkeys are coming” then did not only refer to the animals.

Behind Unterbach, the Eselsbach flows through the neighboring Eller district and its palace gardens . There it flows into the southern Düssel .

Sports

In Unterbach, four larger clubs offer a wide range of sports. SC Unterbach has two large sports fields and a clubhouse in Unterfeldhaus, where football and handball are played. The Unterbacher tennis club is located in the forest and there is a sailing club by the lake. In addition, there are two boathouses for school-bound rowing clubs of two high schools. Both of the primary schools in Unterbach offer a sailing course for children in fourth grade.

TV Unterbach

The TV Unterbach 1905 e. V. focuses on a diverse range. The club and Unterbach became known nationwide in trampoline gymnastics with a first-time success of a German student champion and a simultaneous third place in the student team championship in 1968. With the further rise, the club became German champions in this discipline in 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982 and 1984 , presented countless other German and European titles, a runner-up world champion and the majority of the German national team, with the latter winning the world championship with the participation of the club 1986 succeeded in Paris. In addition, the club has been the head of the trampoline Bundesliga for 25 years .

The club did international pioneering work with the implementation of the "Unterbach Cup" as the first and at that time the highest European competition for schoolchildren and young people, most recently with participation from other continents. In this concept, both international youth encounters, breadth and performance aspects within the trampoline sport should come into effect. The two-day event attracted over 200 host family participants each year. In several parallel events, the best participants were determined who, in a final event in front of television cameras, made up the European top performers.

For 37 years, the TV Unterbach was the only association in Düsseldorf with today's German and historical world significance since the incorporation of Unterbach there, lacking a training and event facility with a ceiling height sufficient for trampoline sports. The club is currently doing gymnastics in the second Bundesliga. It was not until April 2012 that a triple gym was inaugurated, which in future will also serve as a national performance center and thus the training of the German national team. Due to a long search for a location, the funds of four million euros that had been in the budget of the city of Düsseldorf since 2004 could not come into effect.

At least in the double mini trampoline discipline , which can also be trained in low halls, the team of the club was able to build on old successes in 2008 by winning the German runner-up championship. A junior vice world champion as well as the title win of the German championship stands for the year 2011 in the trampoline synchronized gymnastics. In 1974 and 2008 the club hosted the final of the Trampoline Bundesliga and thus the final battle for the German championship.

The jazz and modern dance team from TV Unterbach 1905 e. V., Saltare, was promoted to the second Bundesliga in 2009.

economy

As an almost pure place to live, Unterbach has little economic significance. The only large facility was a regional administration with a distribution warehouse belonging to the Rewe Group , which was closed in January 2011. Until November 2007 this branch operated under the name "Deutscher Supermarket GmbH", a subsidiary of "Leibbrand oHG", which was taken over by Rewe in 1988

There are also two hotels as well as the leisure facilities around the Unterbacher See, with two outdoor pools, several dining facilities, high rope climbing garden, sailing and surfing school and two campsites. Around the “Breidenplatz” and along the “Gerresheimer Landstrasse” are the facilities typical of a sub-center for everyday needs, including a good 20 retail stores.

traffic

In the area of ​​Unterbach there is a section of the A 46 and its junction 27, which is signposted with Erkrath - Düsseldorf-Unterbach . Immediately 500 meters further on at Hildener Kreuz , this forms a corner point of the Düsseldorf motorway ring with the A 3 and thus the Europastraße 35 . Federal roads do not affect the district, the state road 404 bypasses its built-up core to the south and connects the Unterbacher See. The tracks of the S-Bahn line S 1 form the south-western boundary of the district, without there being a stop here.

The public transport is buses Rhine Bahn AG in the transport association Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) ensured. The main transfer point in Unterbach is the Am Zault stop , where the 735, 737, 781 and O 6 buses stop during the day. At night on weekends, the hourly timing of the disco lines DL 4 and the night express NE 6 is guaranteed. The express bus line 780 can be reached two stops further in Unterfeldhaus - Neuenhausplatz . The bus route 891 runs as a shuttle bus to the south beach of the Unterbacher See lake in summer when the weather is nice.

The day and night lines go directly to S-Bahn stations 3 to 5 km away, as well as Düsseldorf Central Station . In order of distance these are: with O 6 and DL 4 to Erkrath train station ( S 8, S 68 ), with 737 to Düsseldorf-Gerresheim train station (S 8, S 28, S 68), with DL 4 and 781 to the stop Hilden-Süd (S 1), with 735 and NE 6 to Düsseldorf-Eller train station (S 1) and Düsseldorf-Eller Süd stop (S 68) and with 737 and NE 6 to Düsseldorf Central Station. The S 1 continues to Düsseldorf Airport .

Churches

St. Mary of the Assumption

Paul Gerhardt Church

In Unterbach there is the Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of Mary built by Josef Lehmbrock on Wittenbruchplatz and the Evangelical Lutheran Paul Gerhardt Church in Brorsstrasse. There is also a chapel on the Unterbacher cemetery, which provides both a municipal department and a department for each of the two denominations.

regional customs

In Unterbach there are two clubs that are committed to the maintenance of customs, on the one hand the St. Hubertus Schützenbruderschaft Unterbach 1870 e. V. and on the other hand the Carnival Committee of Unterbach 1957 e. V.

schools

• Carl-Sonnenschein -Schule - Catholic primary school, Gerresheimer Landstrasse 89
• Wichernschule - municipal primary school, Brorsstrasse 5

Kindergartens

• Catholic kindergarten, Wittenbruchplatz 24
• Rabenhort kindergarten, Brorsstrasse 5
• Municipal kindergarten, Gerresheimer Landstrasse 91
• Evangelical day care center "Rainbow Land"
• Day care center "Kinderparadies" GbR

Personalities

Philipp von Pestel was the lord of the Unterbach house and high president of the Rhine Province .

sons and daughters of the town

The following well-known personalities come from Unterbach:

• Heiner Baltes , soccer player, former Bundesliga professional for Fortuna Düsseldorf with 279 appearances and 11 goals, two-time German cup winner and European cup finalist

Other personalities

The following personalities were not born in Unterbach, but worked there:

• Joseph-Theodor Blank , CDU member of the Bundestag from 1983 to 2002, grew up in Unterbach. The anti-imperialist cells (AIZ) carried out an explosive attack on his home in Erkrath in 1995 with a left-wing radical background .
• Dirk Elbers , the former mayor of Düsseldorf, grew up in Unterbach.
• Friedrich Karl Florian , former Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Düsseldorf, lived in Unterbach for a few years.
• Josef Lehmbrock , architect of the Church of St. Mary of the Assumption , lived temporarily in Unterbach
• Philipp von Pestel , born October 11, 1767, † July 9, 1835, resided in Haus Unterbach and was regional president for the administrative district of Düsseldorf from 1816–1831 as well as chief president of the Rhine province from 1831–1834 .
• Jürgen Roters , lawyer, administrative officer and mayor of Cologne , lived in Unterbach from 1987 to 2009 and was active in a local citizens' initiative.
• Joachim Vobbe , 1995-2010 bishop and thus the highest representative of the Old Catholic Church in Germany lived and worked as a priest in the Roman Catholic parish of St. Mary's Assumption in Unterbach until he converted to religion.
• Lord Leo, bourgeois Klaus-Peter Lietz, still an active and founding member of the rock band The Lords, lives in Unterbach. The band is also based there.

literature

• FJ Brors: Unterbach - A local historical chat and at the same time a contribution to the history of the Bergisches Land , 140 p., 1910, self-published, or ISBN.

Web links

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

• http://www.unterbach-online.de/ History of and current events in Unterbach
• Statistics of Unterbach - Website City of Düsseldorf

Individual evidence

1. ^ Office for statistics and elections of the state capital Düsseldorf: Statistics for the district 084 - Unterbach
2. ↑ Hanna Eggerath: Erkrath - Unterbach, Unterfeldhaus, Hochdahl, Neandertal . Sutton, Erfurt 1998, ISBN 3-89702-038-6 , p. 9.
3. ^ Brors: Unterbach - A local history chat . Self-published, 1910, p. 5ff
4. ↑ Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 291 .
6. ↑ unterbach.com
7. ^ Office - State Association of Music Schools in North Rhine-Westphalia eV
8. ↑ tvunterbach.de
9. ↑ fft.fts04.de ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2011 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. 
10. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/region-duesseldorf/duesseldorf/stadtteile/osten/dreifachturnhalle-ist-eroeffnet-1.2815051
11. ↑ http://www.trampolin-foerderverein.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1198&Itemid=32
12. ↑ NRZ: hanging around the hall , April 20, 2008
13. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/region-duesseldorf/mettmann/sport/mona-weiler-holt-wm-silber-1.2622720
14. ↑ finale08.jump-tvu.de ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2009 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. 
15. ↑ local-wirtschaft.rp-online.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ hubertus-unterbach.de
17. ↑ Unterbach carnival
18. ↑ bundestag.de
19. ↑ Report of the NRW Constitutional Protection ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2010 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. (PDF) p. 118 ff. 
20. ↑ https://www.lokal-anzeiger-erkrath.de/stadtteile/unterbach/ein-verein-so-wie-ein-dach_aid-36280231
21. ↑ https://www.express.de/duesseldorf/stimmen-zu-elbers-ob-dirk-elbers--zum-finale-nach-shaus-231692
22. ^ Hermann Baumann: Brauner in the bunker . In: Die Zeit , No. 19/1971.
23. ↑ Manfred Becker-Huberti (Ed.): Düsseldorfer Kirchen - Die Catholic Kirchen im Stadtdekanat Düsseldorf , JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2009, p. 83 f.
24. ↑ bezreg-duesseldorf.nrw.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
25. ^ WZ Newsline: Interview with Jürgen Roters: The Cologne-Düsseldorfer . Published and accessed April 13, 2012
26. ↑ https://www.thelords.de/index.php/impressum
27. ↑ https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Ahornstra%C3%9Fe%20D%C3%BCsseldorf#map=19/51.20057/6.89837
28. ↑ https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/stadtgespraech/duesseldorf-der-lord-klaus-peter-lietz-blickt-laß-auf-den-unterbacher-see_aid-39409507