Düsseldorf-Urdenbach

Urdenbach is a district of Dusseldorf in North Rhine -Westphalia and currently has about 10,500 inhabitants. It extends over an area of 7.64 km ².

For the name Urdenbach following notations are used in old documents: Vrdenbach, Vyrdenbach, religious Bach and Oerdenbach. 1592 Before the name was often additionally provided with the preposition up, or of op. To name interpretation, there are several variants. One of these variants is based on a Celtic name for swamp land that was designated Urdefa. According to another variant of the name is derived from the creek that still runs today through Urdenbach (see also: Urdenbacher Altrhein ). In a sketch map of 1674, the southern mouth of the river Itter religious stream is called. Up the Order Bach would thus have been a location name for a settlement. A charter of 1523 confirms this variant. Herein is headed for the church game Benrath: " Räde vein Benraide in the country van Berge located at the Vyrdenbach ".

Geographical Location

Urdenbach located in the south of Dusseldorf and is bordered to the north by the district Benrath as well as the park, on the east by the district Garath, west of the Rhine forms the border, and to the south the Old Rhine bed with the adjoining floodplain, as nature conservation and flood plain can not be built on.

History

Generally

Urdenbach must have existed by the beginning of the 14th century. In a court investigation of 1555 including a medal village Bach is mentioned for the post Monheim 1363. In another document of 1385 of Oerdenbach is specified for the location of a farm up. A court seal from 1454 is used for the district court orders Bach and Hemmelgeist. For this dish is argued that the honschafft ( town ) Orders Bach 3 Scheffen ( aldermen ) and Hemmelgeist the Vogt and 4 Scheffen for 5 honschafften: Benrod, Itter, Hemmelgeist, versts and Holthusen beistellen. In the late Middle Ages was thus Urdenbach next Himmelgeist south of Düsseldorf one of the main towns.

In the Court exploration of 1555 5 dishes are specified by name for the office Monheim Monheim specifically next: Hittorp, Richrod, religious Bach and Hemmelgeist. This document is also cited: " seindt unijrt and Hemmelgeist beaten in Order of Bach". The court thus met in Urdenbach. As a Courthouse built in 1535 and still existing half-timbered house, Urdenbacher village street is 44/48, used.

Of the large estates and farms in the district Urdenbach old documents from Braß -Good, Buchholz yard, yard and house full Hausen Endings are available. The area around the village Urdenbach existed until after the 15th century largely from forests that belonged partly to the monastery of St. Quirin of Neuss woman. Parts of these forests were cleared and assign or sell the new lands for long lease.

Previously Urdenbach was an important trading with a trading port of the Rhine, which had formed after an extreme flood in the 14th century. The importance of the port in the Middle Ages can be seen at the siege of Neuss by Charles the Bold of Burgundy 1475th The replacement Corps Neuss, which placed the city of Cologne, chose as the location for the supply depot Urdenbach. The supplies were delivered with Rhine vessels across the harbor.

With increasing siltation of Altrheines later came the Port to a halt. The importance of the place thus declined and in 1808 the French period Dusseldorf -Benrath became a top community in what is now the south of Düsseldorf. The former is more important Urdenbachs can still be seen at many sights and half -timbered houses. These include the Böke pomp of 1874, the firehouse from 1784, the Baroque Protestant- Calvinist village church of 1692/1693 and the neo-Roman Catholic Sacred Heart Church. 1893-1894 were built by the church choir and two Längshausjoche. The final expansion and completion took place in 1914.

Religion

End of the 16th century was widely used in the Duchy of Berg, the Protestant and Reformed faith. After the change of Duke Wolfgang Wilhelm beginning of the 17th century by the Protestant to the Catholic faith that supported the Counter-Reformation in his government area. The population of the Rhineland was again mostly Catholic. An exception in the present town of Dusseldorf area was only the former rural community Urdenbach. As stated in the section house Endings, the use of the reformed religion for Benrath and Urdenbach has already been detected since 1582 through the testimony of Peter Kappel. Due to the influx of Dutch Protestants from the Netherlands because of that oppression by the local Catholic Spanish rule developed in Urdenbach a significant Reformed congregation. This changed - in contrast to the community in Benrath - mostly not Catholicism back. Due to the dominance of the Reformed in Urdenbach there have already been 1688-1693 for the construction of the evangelical church. This was built on the site of the 1664 acquired by the municipality in leasehold Braß - good. It is thus one of the oldest Protestant churches in the city of Dusseldorf. Only the Berger and the Neanderkirche are a few years older. The village church is still not needed, as the other two churches in Dusseldorf, to be hidden in a backyard.

In a description from 1715 over the Duchy of Berg is for Office Monheim and the former parishes of Dusseldorf and the surrounding communities, argued that only the village Urdenbach was reformed at this time. With the construction of the Catholic Sacred Heart Church until the end of the 19th century began. The industrialization in the south of Düsseldorf, the number of Catholic creditor was greatly increased by influx, thus a need for a larger church was built.

An indication of the former special situation of the Protestant and Catholic religion in the area Benrath / Urdenbach are still currently valid limits of the parishes. Notwithstanding the municipal borders ranges the Protestant community in the northeast limit of Urdenbach to Telemannstraße / Spohrstraße / Flotowstraße. The jurisdiction of the Catholic church, however, already ends at the Koblenz Street / South Avenue. Both areas therefore include areas that are now local to Benrath. The reason for this is probably the more important of Urdenbach compared with Benrath before the 19th century.

Benrather line - language border

By Urdenbach leads the language border Benrather line. A small fine example of this is the street books (books = book ), which passes by the Böke pomp ( pump to the book ).

Urdenbacher Kämpe

At the border of Monheim am Rhein is the ecologically valuable nature reserve Urdenbacher champion, a landscape of meadows and floodplain. This area comprises the area between the Rhine and a dead channel of the river, who moved his history in the 14th century after a flood by several hundred meters to the west.

Customs

For Thanksgiving Day on the 1st Sunday after September 29 there will be a procession, which usually begins at 14:00 clock on Urdenbacher field and at the elaborate displays of old tractors are ( partially from the 1920s and 1930s ) or pulled by draft horses. Afterwards begins the Schürreskarren Race at Böke pomp on the high street. The locals wear as " Blotschen " designated Holzklotschen ( wooden shoes ) and run with wooden wheelbarrows laden with fruit and vegetables, through the village.

Localities

The called rock and blues pub " Zur Alten Apotheke ", also " counter ", is particularly well known for their live concerts.

Train

• Primary schools Community Primary School Garather road
• Community Primary School South Avenue

• School Koblenzerstraße
• Theodor- Litt -Realschule