Düsseldorf-Hubbelrath
Hubbelrath is a little country district of Dusseldorf. Following a Council Decision of 13 February 2014, the area Knittkuhl ( settlement Knittkuhl ) of Hubbelrath was cleaved and forms since an independent district.
- 2.1 Political assignment
- 3.1 Village Hubbelrath
- 3.2 Settlement Knittkuhl
- 3.3 Stratenhofsiedlung
- 3.4 Settlement Rotthäuser path / Sauerhof
- 3.5 Good Bruchhausen
- 3.6 Good Mydlinghoven
Geography and population figures
Hubbelrath lies to the east of the city of Dusseldorf in the midst of the cultural landscape of the Mettmanner Lösshochfläche and borders Ratingen, Mettmann and Erkrath in the district of Mettmann. The district has an area of 13.79 km ² and is geographically the largest district of Düsseldorf.
For the district include the village Hubbelrath, the settlement areas in Knittkuhl to the Stratenhof and around the Rotthäuser way the Bergische barracks, the central landfill of the city of Dusseldorf, nature and landscape protection areas around the Rotthäuser and Hubbelrather stream valley.
Hubbelrath has 3526 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2007).
Topology
On Hubbelrather area (south of the golf courses ), the 165 meter high sand hill. He is the highest natural elevation of Düsseldorf. Located near the village Hubbelrath stems from the Hubbelrather stream that flows south to Erkrath where it discharges into the Düsseldorf. Around 1.5 kilometers to the west is the source of Rotthäuser stream that also flows in a southerly direction to Düsseldorf. The areas to the north of the state road 7, which runs almost identical to the watershed between Düsseldorf and Schwarzenbach on Hubbelrather area are, for flowing westward Diepensiepener stream that also crosses the northeastern corner Hubbelraths, drained.
History
From prehistoric times, relatively few finds are known to Hubbelrather area compared to the surrounding communities. According to present knowledge the area AD remained uninhabited until the 5th or 6th century. First clearing and creation of farms in the area are dated to the 8th century. The origin of the present-day village is situated in a courtyard, which was named after the alleged first inhabitants Hupoldesroth ( clearing of Hupoldes ). This name first appears in a deed of 29 May 950, in which the Archbishop of Cologne Wichfrid gave the place Hupoldesroth with manor and chapel each half to the monastery of St. Ursula and the Gerresheimer Kanonissinenstift. The patronal feast of St.. Cecilia suggests a construction of the chapel at the earliest after 822. In the 12th century a stone church, today's Catholic Church St. Cecilia was built in place of the chapel. 1668 was the place for the first time a school.
Political allocation
By the end of 1974 Hubbelrath was an independent municipality and formed with the equally independent villages Hasselbeck - Schwarzbach, Homberg - Meier mountain ( since 1975 Ratingen ) and Metzkausen (since 1975 to Mettmann ), the independent administrative unit office Hubbelrath with administrative headquarters in Metzkausen.
Through the Dusseldorf - law Hubbelrath and parts of Hasselbeck - Schwarzbach were amalgamated with effect from 1 January 1975 in the city of Dusseldorf. Hubbelrath belongs together with these parts of the former municipality Hasselbeck - Schwarzenbach since then as district Hubbelrath to Düsseldorf City District 7
Settlements
Village Hubbelrath
Not far from the motorway junction Mettmann ( Autobahn A 3) and the Federal Highway 7 is a circular village, which was built around the manor mentioned in documents as early as Hupoldesroth 950. The village is characterized by villas, detached and terraced houses, with the rural character was maintained. Worth seeing is the built in Romanesque style Catholic parish church of St. Cecilia. Its tower dates from the 12th century. Next to the church is a remnant of the older buildings just the opposite rectory. From the oldest settlement of the district, a lively club life (Protect, volunteer fire department ) goes out. In the village is the cemetery Hubbelrath the smallest cemetery Düsseldorf.
Settlement Knittkuhl
Northwest of the Bergische barracks and east of Aaper forest, Knittkuhl. It is named after the former Knittkuhl yard and today's restaurant Good Knittkuhle which lies north of the settlement area. Built as a soldier settlement in the 1960s, the settlement belonged to the municipality Hasselbeck - Schwarzenbach in 1975 divided between Ratingen and Dusseldorf. Knittkuhl came together with the community Hubbelrath the Düsseldorf district Hubbelrath. The settlement is now a purely residential area of mixed development ( single and multi- family houses), which today has about 2000 inhabitants. The infrastructure of the town includes doctors, a small supermarket, a primary school, two kindergartens in church-run, an open all-day school and two public houses. In Knittkuhl are the Catholic parish church of St. Victor and the Protestant Community center Hubbelrath. Community life is dominated by the sports clubs SSV Knittkuhl and 1.FC Knittkuhl as well as the cultural and youth mentoring activities of culture lovers Knittkuhl. In the immediate vicinity of the town are located near the forest Aaper an airfield, a golf course and a former military training grounds of the Bundeswehr. After vehement protests by the citizens of Düsseldorf against a sale of the land to private investors ( citizens' initiative Aaper forest ) it is now in the custody of the Federal Forst as part of the Federal Agency for Real Estate. In spite of belonging to Hubbelrath many residents feel the place as independent district, which also local Childer Knittkuhls have names.
Stratenhofsiedlung
East of the Bergische barracks is the Stratenhofsiedlung. The mentioned already in the 14th century was a Stratenhof Lehnshof, which was awarded by the pin Gerresheim and who was also a kurmüdiger and tributary court, which had to pay his services to the Derner court in Gerresheim. Had the Stratenhof different from many other goods that have been leased a limited time, the special property that it was a family farm. Today is the Stratenhof to an existing group of terraced houses and bungalows settlement, which extends to the national road 7. Similar to Knittkuhl the houses were inhabited by soldiers for the neighboring barracks.
Settlement Rotthäuser path / Sauerhof
Along the branch from Rotthäuser way to Sauerhof initially resulted in a residential area. North of single-family homes were built in the 1990s. The settlement is one of the most expensive residential areas in Düsseldorf.
Good Bruchhausen
Located near the village Hubbelrath in Hubbelrather stream valley is the 1218 first mentioned in the headquarters of the Knights of Broichhausen. The still existing buildings in the style of the so-called " Rhenish Late Baroque " was built in the 20th century for the entrepreneur Alfred Haniel. The in the park standing oak was planted in 1679 and is the oldest oak Düsseldorf.
Good Mydlinghoven
Ritter Wilhelm from house to house in Ratingen built in 1460 on the Hubbelrather creek about one kilometer south of Good Bruchhausen preferred water mill for water castle. In 1915 she was converted into stud and Erholungshof for pit horses. Today Mydlinghoven houses some apartments and a restaurant.
Traffic
The Federal Highway 7 crosses on a ridge Hubbelrath in west-east direction and is connected near the village Hubbelrath over the exit Mettmann to the motorway A 3 Cologne Oberhausen. In public transport Hubbelrath is accessed through the Rheinbahn bus lines 733 ( Knittkuhl Gerresheim - Their village) and 738 ( Mettmann - Gerresheim - Dusseldorf Hauptbahnhof).