Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth
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Kaiserswerth is one of the oldest parts of the City of Düsseldorf, it is in the north of the city, and next to the river Rhine. Kaiserswerth has 7,712 inhabitants and an area of 4.71 m².
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[edit] History
About the year 700 the monk Suitbertus founded a Benedictine-abbey in Werth, later Kaiserswerth, but it was destroyed 88 years later.
The Kaiserpfalz (temporary seat of the Holy Roman Emperor) was built in 1045. In 1062 the archbishop of Cologne, Anno II kidnapped the underage German king Heinrich IV from here and in this way obtained the unofficial regency of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1174 Friedrich I Barbarossa moved the Rhine customs collection to Kaiserswerth. In 1273 the Emperor pledged Kaiserswerth to the archbishop of Cologne.
In 1591 Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld was born in Kaiserswerth. In 1689 Kaiserswerth was particularly devastated by France during the War of the Palatine Succession. During the Spanish war of succession, the Bishop of Cologne sided with France and Kaiserswerth received a French garrison. In 1702 the city was therefore besieged by the Grand Alliance. After a long and hard struggle the town surrendered and the Alliance decided to demolish the fortifications. It was probably at the instigation of the Elector Palatine that the pfalz and tower were also blown up.
In the 19th century Kaiserswerth was famous by its deaconess clinic, where Florence Nightingale was educated. In both World Wars there was a great military hospital in Kaiserswerth.
Kaiserswerth became a part of Düsseldorf in 1929.
[edit] Infrastructure
Kaiserswerth is connected to the central stations and the central districts of the cities of Düsseldorf and Duisburg by the metropolitan railway line U 79. There are some bus lines to other parts of Düsseldorf, to Mettmann, Krefeld and Düsseldorf International Airport.
[edit] Literature
- Christa-Maria Zimmermann / Hans Stöcker (Hrsg.), Edmund Spohr: Kayserswerth, 1300 Jahre, Heilige, Kaiser, Reformer. Herausgegeben im Auftrag der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, Kulturamt. 2. durchgesehene Auflage. Triltsch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3799800050
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