Düsseldorf-Carlstadt

The Carlstadt ( until the end of 2005 officially Karlstadt ) is an inner-city district of Düsseldorf, which borders directly south of the old city and belongs to the municipality 1.

Geography

0.46 square kilometers, the Carlstadt is geographically the smallest part of Düsseldorf and is adjacent to the old town, the city center, Unterbilk and the Rhine.

Demography

The district has only 2,210 residents, making the population density of 4,911 inhabitants per km ² is. These are distributed to over 1,800 households. The most clearly represented age group, 18 - to 45 -year-old (40.0 %), followed by the 45 - to under 60 years ( 22.3 %), which explains the high average age of 46 years. Accordingly, there exists in Carlstadt only a primary school with 112 pupils and not in school. The unemployment rate is below average at 7.7%, the proportion of non-German nationals is 14.9 %, slightly below that of the entire city.

History

The western parts of this part of town are about 100 years older than the actual core area of ​​Carlstadt. The older areas were within the citadel, whose construction began in the mid -16th century. With the construction of residential buildings and the settlement within the citadel was started from 1641 and this was, as already largely completed from a city map from 1764 can be seen, before the middle of the 18th century.

As of 1750, the population of Düsseldorf had grown strong, so that forced itself upon a new extension of the city. During the Seven Years War, the fortifications were greatly expanded in the south of the city. This allowed the old fortifications laid down in the area between the Flinger Bastion and the Citadel and are supplied to a new urban use. The demolition work lasted from 1784 to 1787. September 7th 1787 development plans have been published. This was the beginning of the new district Carlstadt, who was named after the Elector Palatine Carl Theodor. By tax rebates numerous property developers were attracted and in 1790 had the area around the Place Carl urban development on. The full development of the expansion area went on for several more decades. The checkerboard-like system of streets and numerous preserved city palace and town houses still give testimony of this era, such as the Palais Nesselrode, Wittgenstein and Spee. An example of the former building is the High Street.

Presence

Typical of the area are the numerous antique shops and jewelry stores upmarket. Moreover, in the Carlstadt many restaurants and pubs are represented, with things get much quieter here than in the adjacent Old Town.

The Carlstadt houses, among other things, a number of cultural institutions such as the Robert Schumann Society, the Heinrich -Heine -Institut, Instytut Polski and the Institut français, several museums such as the Hetjens Museum of ceramic history, the Film Museum Dusseldorf and the city museum capital of Dusseldorf and the Duesseldorf puppet theater. The composers couple Clara and Robert Schumann lived in the Bilker Straße 15

A nationally known place in Carlstadt is the Carl course on which a steady weekly market is established, which is open from Monday to Saturday. Architecturally striking buildings in this area are the church of St. Maximilian ( " Maxkirche " ) with its convent, which is open to the public as Maxhaus now, or Mannesmann skyscraper on the River Rhine, whose facade is traditionally illuminated at Christmas time in the form of a giant Christmas tree.

Economy and Politics

The house of the church with the administration of the church district and the seat of the superintendent of the church district Dusseldorf of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland is located on the Bastion Street.

Traditionally, the Mannesmann company had its seat in the district. Today, the former headquarters building is the seat of the German subsidiary of Vodafone. The buildings were sold to a NRW state operation in 2009, the company moved to Upper Kassel and Ratingen is planned. On the Kasernenstraße located on Carl townspeople side of the seat of the district savings bank Dusseldorf as well as the seat of the Handelsblatt publishing group, on the site of the former synagogue in Düsseldorf ( Barracks Road No. 67). Adjacent is the Düsseldorf's banking district in the city center district.

In addition to the Vodafone headquarters are located, designed by the architect Hermann from Endings "Villa Horion ", which served as the official residence of the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1961 to 1999. Today, the President of the Parliament and it resides among others days the Committee on Petitions and the study commissions of the State Parliament. Behind, at the Harold Street, is the NRW Ministry of Economy. The above buildings are parts of the North Rhine-Westphalian government district that connects the boroughs of Carlstadt, Unterbilk and port together.

Metro Station Benrather road

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East of Carl space and located below the Barracks Road, Metro Station Benrather road is being built at the time. This station will be one of six new subway stations of property under construction Wehrhahnlinie.