Düsseldorf-Golzheim

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Golzheim, a borough of Düsseldorf in District 1 on the Rhine, just north of the city center, is primarily a business and hotel district, but retains some of the old stately villas.

1 History
2 Economy and infrastructure
3 Geography
4 External links

[edit] History

The oldest parts of Düsseldorf are to be found in Golzheim and Stockum, but the Golzheim area was not so built-up that it couldn’t accommodate the large international Trade Fair of 1902, and thus was established as the primary Düsseldorf exhibition site. It hosted the international national Health Fair of 1926 and the huge cultural NSDAP “Schaffendes Volk” meetings of 1937. The waterfront on the Rhine, the Rhinepark, owes its shape to these exhibitions.

Started in 1947, the annual Düsseldorf Trade Fair was held in Golzheim in the Ehrenhof Complex, until the new exhibition grounds were built next to the airport in 1971.

[edit] Economy and infrastructure

Golzheim is one of the most prestigious office addresses in the city. The tallest building is the Sky Office at 22 stories which was completed in 2006. On the Ehrenhof are the North-Rhine/Westphalia Forum for Culture and Trade, and the art museum (Museum Kunst Palast). The Düsseldorf Tonhalle (concert hall), located next to Oberkassel Bridge on the Rhine, used to be a planetarium. It and the Rhine Park are important places for events.

Trees in Rhine Park taken October 13, 2005

The land for the park was reclaimed from an old harbor basin in 1900 in preparation for the 1902 Exhibition, and was used for exhibition and trade fair purposes until 1926. After the international Health Fair of 1926, which had 7.5 million visitors, the area was turned into a park. Originally called "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Park", the Rhine Park is not a classical park, but is more of a greenbelt, 24 hectares, between Cecilien Avenue and the Rhine, from the Oberkassel bridge to the Theodor Heuss bridge, with arranged copses of trees and plenty of open lawn for sunbathing and amateur volleyball games. The Circus Roncalli is located year-round in the park, and in the summer a local brewery sponsors an open air cinema.

[edit] Geography

Golzheim has an area of 2.64 km², 10,248 inhabitants and therefore a density of 3.882 inh./km². Golzheim borders on the Rhine to the west, on Pempelfort to the south, on Kaiserswerth to the north, and on Derendorf to the east.