Düsseldorf-Lohausen

Lohausen is a northern district of Dusseldorf. About two- thirds of the area Lohausens be taken from Düsseldorf Airport. The western, which opens onto the Rhine part is dominated village. Noise pollution and building restrictions by the airport have affected the development of the district. Formative are numerous equestrian centers.

Geography

Lohausen is located in the north of the city of Dusseldorf, bordering the neighborhoods Kaiserwerth and Kalkum in the north, Stockum in the south, under advice to the southeast, and Lichtenbroich the east and belongs to the municipality 5 The district covers the northern outer ring from the Rhine to the Rhine frontier to the sea Busch - Ilverich in the west to the eastern border town of Düsseldorf Ratingen- Tiefenbroich. With an area of 11.66 km ², it is the third largest district, has 4,009 inhabitants, but with only a population density of 344 inhabitants per km ². After 1909 the southern district of Stockum to Dusseldorf had to be ceded, the remaining former rural community Lohausen lost his 1929 self-administration in Dusseldorf. The resulting flight operations had awakened the Düsseldorf desires.

History

Lohausen was first documented in 1047. The Lords of Kalcheim (now Kalkum ) had two knights seats, Lohausen and Leuchtenberg (old name Shape: Leuchtmar ), both of which were acquired at the beginning of the 19th century by Heinrich Balthasar Lantz, who near the courtyard Lohausen, the Barbican, in part, to the foundations of the castle to build a new mansion and had to create a large park, the Lantz'schen Park. In 1972 the city acquired the estate of the Lantz family.

Namesake of Lohausen this is mentioned already in the Middle Ages same manor by the still preserved farmstead south next to the Lantz'schen Park. Also from the house Leuchtenberg still get close to the Rhine dike and its former Vorwerk, the Nagelshof are sizable parts.

Attractions

The Church of St. Assumption shall be deemed sight. The Memorial Chapel of Count Spee in the Romanesque Revival style on the Niederrheinstraße is by Rudolf Wiegmann. The house Hannemann is a listed building in the style of conservative modernity.

Buildings

The residential development in Lohausen is low and very scattered. The district is characterized by one-and two -family homes and villas and operated as before agriculture. Along the Rhine there is a water reserve. The Rhine dike, which is considered highly in need of renovation since 2003, in addition to the leisure facilities for riders and tennis friends is a popular tourist destination.

This district is located in the east of Dusseldorf airport, but because of today's traffic management has no road connection with the residential development Lohausens more and today is actually connected to sub- Rath. However, a connection for pedestrians and cyclists exists by means of a bridge over the highway as developed Danziger Straße. The German Lufthansa flew early in 1927 for the first time at the airfield Golzheimer Heath. Until the Second World War was the entrance to the former airport buildings in the western part of the airport about today, Old airport road '.

Personalities

People with relationship to the city

  • Arno Breker (1900-1991), sculptor and artist
  • Josef Pallenberg (1882-1946), German artist and sculptor animal

Assignments

  • Lohausen is managed by the City Council Dusseldorf under the number 052.
  • State constituencies

Since the local elections in 1979 Lohausen together with parts of the city Kaiserwerth and the Düsseldorf Stockum local election district 22, which includes nine precincts, including the electoral districts 5201 and 5202 for Lohausen. The two polling stations are traditionally practiced in the Roman Catholic primary school in the base.

Since the 2002 elections Lohausen heard as the entire city of Düsseldorf District 5 to the Bundestag constituency 107 Dusseldorf I. Directly elected members were Michael Müller ( SPD) (2002-2005), Hildegard Müller (CDU ) ( 2005-2008/Rücktritt; had one of their three residences in Lohausen ), and since 2009, Thomas Jarzombek ( CDU).

Since the election of the state parliament of North Rhine -Westphalia in 2005 Lohausen heard how the entire Düsseldorf City District 5 for State Parliament Constituency 40 Dusseldorf I. Directly elected representative in 2005 and 2010 Olaf rest ( CDU) since May 13, 2012 Mark Herbert Weske (SPD ) with 26,586 votes ( 36.5 %).

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