Düsseldorf-Garath
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Garath is a quarter in the south of Düsseldorf, next to Benrath.
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[edit] Geography
Garath lies on the fertile low Rhine area. It is neighboring to Urdenbach, Hellerhof and Benrath. The city of Hilden, belonging to the district of Mettmann and the town of Monheim, beloniging to the City of Langenfeld is in the neighbourhood, too.
Garath has about 20,000 inhabitants and an area of 3.64 km².
[edit] Origins
Garath is named after the Garath Castle (Schloss Garath), a manor, from which the local disposer ruled the surrounding.
[edit] History
Garath was mentioned first time on July 2, 1271. The Knight Bruno von Ganderode, local ruler in Garath, was witness for a contract between the convent Dünnwald near Cologne and the Knight Hermann von Betzendorf. The Knights of Ganderode stayed as local ruler until the 14th century.
At the end of the 14th century the Knights of Kalkum became local regents.
Starting up from the 16th century there were a lot of local rulers.
At the end of the 19th century the ruler Rittmeister von Burgsdorff founded the Garather Hühnerfarm, the worldwide greatest chicken farm at thart time.
On May 23, 1929 Garath became a part of Benrath, on July 31, 1929 Garath became - together with Benrath - a quarter of Düsseldorf.
In the 1950s the administration of Düsseldorf started the construction of a lot residential building in Garath for the people who had no real place to live because of the destruction of World War II. In the 1970s Garath got a lot of high rised residential buildings.
[edit] Garath today
In the 1970s a lot Garath got a lot of high-rised residential buildings, especially for social lower deprived people.
So a lot of people from lower social classes went to the souuth of Garath, especially immigrants. So Garath is diverse into a middle-class area in the north and west and a problem district in the south. The unemployment rate is high. So the south of Garath became an urban problem area.
[edit] Infrastructure
Garath has a direct connection to the motorway A 59 and it's own S-Bahn Station. A highway connects Garath to the central districts of Düsseldorf.
There are three Gymnasiums (Grammar schools) in Benrath and Garath. The fire station of Garath is one of the greatest in Düsseldorf. The fireman school of Düsseldorf works in that building.
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District 1: Altstadt | Derendorf | Golzheim | Carlstadt | Pempelfort | Stadtmitte District 2: Düsseltal | Flingern-Nord | Flingern-Süd District 3: Bilk | Flehe | Friedrichstadt | Hafen | Hamm | Oberbilk | Unterbilk | Volmerswerth District 4: Heerdt | Lörick | Niederkassel | Oberkassel District 5: Angermund | Kaiserswerth | Kalkum | Lohausen | Stockum | Wittlaer District 6: Lichtenbroich | Mörsenbroich | Rath | Unterrath District 7: Gerresheim | Grafenberg | Hubbelrath | Ludenberg District 8: Eller | Lierenfeld | Unterbach | Vennhausen District 9: Benrath | Hassels | Himmelgeist | Holthausen | Itter | Reisholz | Urdenbach | Wersten District 10: Garath | Hellerhof |
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