Düsseldorf-Kalkum

The district of Düsseldorf Kalkum, at least wrote railway authorities to 1930 Calcum, is one of the oldest places on today's city of Düsseldorf and belongs to Düsseldorf city 's 5th district early 892 AD, he was mentioned as Calechheim in a deed of the East Frankish king Arnulf of Carinthia. The local dialect speaks of Kalkem.

1929 Kalkum became the new administrative unit office Ratingen assigned to the country, but had been an area of 0.91 km ² with a population of 1112 ceded to Dusseldorf. 1930 lost Kalkum the administrative autonomy and it was by decree of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, the merger of the spots and places Bockum, Wittlaer, Kalkum with Zeppenheim, Einbrungen, and frog pond to the new rural community Wittlaer. In the course of the next administrative reorganization of this large village Wittlaer slammed on 1 January 1975, the state capital Dusseldorf. The city of Dusseldorf granted Kalkum with Zeppenheim by changing the boundaries of the status of a separate Düsseldorf district within the borough 05

By area, it is one with 7.62 km ² of the larger, but the number of inhabitants with 1,890 of the smaller districts. He is surrounded by many forests and fields in the north of Düsseldorf. The high recreational value and proximity to the historic center of Kaiserwerth makes Kalkum a popular residential area. The large number of parks, lakes and forest stands under conservation and will not be released for a building provisionally. It weighs about single-family houses with a high standard of living. Depending on the wind direction, however, the noise of the south in the Dusseldorf airport and the heavy traffic passing diminish the peaceful impression.

The Kalkumer moated castle Kalkum makes it an attractive destination for cyclists from the area. The castle was formerly the headquarters of the Hatzfeld family and in 1946 the state of North Rhine -Westphalia sold, which has set up there in 1962 a branch of the Central State Archive Dusseldorf. The landscaped garden that surrounds the castle, is a part of the green lung of the district.

Worth seeing are also in the 12-13. Century resulting parish church St. Lambertus and the old water mill on the Schwarzbach.

View of the Choir

Castle Kalkum

Traffic

Situated on the railway line between Cologne and Duisburg Train Station Kalkum was shut down with the opening of the railway station, 1.5 km away Dusseldorf airport; Remnants of the covered platform are still clearly visible in the passage. Before May 27 here in 1990 held last trains of the S-Bahn line 1 on the subway line 79 is reached Kalkum on the stop Kalkumer Castle Avenue. Branching off from the main road 8 is Kalkum developed by the country road L422.