Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte

City center is one of the 50 districts of Dusseldorf and is located in the district first with 1.72 km ² and 12,786 inhabitants is part of the city center to the densely populated districts. City center is the economic center of the state capital. The district is bounded on the west by the Old Town with Carlstadt and the east by the railway line between Cologne and Duisburg Central Station. Town center is dominated by large contrasts that show up in the formation of various unofficial district. In addition to numerous offices, the district has the highest concentration of retail stores in Dusseldorf, including four major department stores and three shopping centers. The main shopping street is Schadowstraße, which is one of the busiest and highest-volume roads in Germany. Nationally and internationally known is the King Avenue, Düsseldorf's luxury shopping street.

• 3.1 private transport
• 3.2 Transportation
• 3.3 Regional train and train long-distance transport

Location

City center is located east of the old town and the Carlstadt. In the north, bordering PEMPELFORT, in the east - Duesseltal Dusseldorf, Flingern- Nord, Flingern -south, southeast and south Oberbilk Friedrichstadt. The boundaries to the other parts of the city are often not even known locals. The southern boundary of the district forms the Graf- Adolf-Straße, the eastern railway line between Cologne and Duisburg Central Station. In the West, Heinrich -Heine -Allee and the barracks road separate the district from the historical center of Carlstadt and the north of the courtyard of PEMPELFORT, the portion of the park with the crown land belongs to the city center.

Despite its small size, the structure of the district center is not homogeneous, which among other things shows up at the bottom prices that are approximately north of the main station at around 1,400 € per m², while barely a kilometer away on the King Avenue values ​​of up to 13,000 € per m can be determined. As part of the Düsseldorf parking guidance system, the city has divided the city into quarters. In the City Centre area accounts for the parking space quarters " Kings ", " Central Station " and " Schadowstraße ". There are also several unofficial quarters, which are locally known, and their differentiation is not always clear.

Financial District and King Avenue

The financial district comprises three parallel north-south direction roads Barracks Road, Broad Street and King Avenue. In this scarce dozen city blocks are the offices of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, and the building of the former branch of Dresdner Bank, which are now part of Commerzbank. Until the 1990s, Dusseldorf seat of a part of the board of three major German commercial banks. The former importance of Düsseldorf branches reflected in the monumental architecture of the period. Other major bank branches, the Targobank, the traditional Trinkaus & Burkhardt, the Dusseldorf District Savings Bank (although strictly speaking is in Carlstadt), HypoVereinsbank and Bank of Tokyo- Mitsubishi UFJ. Furthermore, here numerous consultancies and law firms are located. The West German newspaper Rheinische Post and here have large local offices and on the barracks road is the headquarters of the Handelsblatt publishing ( also in Carlstadt). The financial district is a popular office location. Here the highest office rents in the state capital are paid. The retail trade is concentrated on the east side of King Avenue. The district has the Breidenbacher yard and the InterContinental two -star establishment.

Japanese quarter

→ See also: Japanese in Dusseldorf

In Dusseldorf about 450 Japanese companies are located, about 8,600 Japanese live in the district of Dusseldorf. In the region between Berliner Allee, Monastery Road, Charlotte Street and Graf- Adolf-Straße can be found on a nearly thirty -acre area with numerous offices of Japanese companies. The center of the Japanese activities is Immermannstraße. Here, the " German - Japanese Center" was established in 1978, which in addition to 12,000 sqm of office space includes the 600-bed Hotel Nikko. The center is the seat of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, the Consulate General and the Marubeni Group's European headquarters. In addition to Japanese trading companies, banks, insurance companies, transportation companies and advertising agencies a wide range of Japanese service providers, restaurateurs and retailers have settled. To be found on the Immermannstraße and in the adjacent streets, two Japanese supermarkets, several bookstores, video stores, specialty shops and Japanese doctors. German service providers such as pharmacies, butchers, hotels or mobile phone shops have adapted with special offers on the Far Eastern clientele. In the German Cosplayszene the Japanese district of Dusseldorf is known as lovers of manga and anime will find the latest books and movies from Japan.

In recent years, have also settled numerous other Asian service providers and restaurants in the Japanese area, especially Chinese and Koreans, so that a wide range of East Asian popular culture is offered in the heart of Düsseldorf city center. While many Japanese families in the left-bank districts Upper and Lower Kassel Kassel live, many Japanese people are accommodated in temporary work assignments in corporate housing or specialized hotels in the city center.

Attractions

• King avenue: running in the north-south direction wide boulevard with trees and King- ditch in the center of Dusseldorf, known for short as " Kings "
• Hofgarten existing since 1769, the oldest folk garden in Germany
• Wilhelm Marx House: Built in 1922-1924, one of Europe's oldest skyscrapers at the Heinrich -Heine -Allee
• Bergischer Lion: a statue of bronze from 1963
• Playhouse: a 1970 designed by Bernhard Pfau new building at Gustaf - Gründgens Square
• Dusseldorf Stock Exchange: a 1970 finished building at Gustaf - Gründgens Square
• State Central Bank
• St. John's Church
• Dreischeibenhaus: built in 1957-60, a 94 -meter-high office and administration buildings

Traffic

Private transport

Several important main roads leading into and through the district, but no roads of more than local significance. A well-known traffic was building up to its demolition in 2013, known as centipedes high road, which enabled access to the Berliner Allee, one of the busiest streets of Düsseldorf and the main north -south axis of the city. The district has about 20 car parks, in spite of which may occur at peak times to bottlenecks in the parking supply. Parking on the road is almost everywhere a fee or residents reserved. Bicycle paths are only rudimentary except for the area King Avenue.

Transportation

All rail lines traverse the area underground. In addition, a dense network of buses and streetcars. Important transfer are the main railway and underground station Heinrich -Heine -Allee and the Jan- Wellem place from which depart the buses to the suburbs and neighboring cities. In 2007, started the construction of a new metro line, the Wehrhahnlinie.

Regional train and train long-distance transport

Düsseldorf main station is used daily by 250,000 people and is a long-distance nodes. Here meet the long-distance, regional and commuter train traffic. In addition, interchanges are made to city trains, trams and buses.