Garath () is a suburb of

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

, Germany, south of the city centre and part of Borough 10. It has an area of , and 19,048 inhabitants (2020). Garath-Wohnbebauung

Geography

Garath adjoins the Düsseldorf suburbs of Urdenbach to the north-west , Benrath to the north and Hellerhof to the south. To the east lies

Hilden Hilden is a town in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is situated in the District of Mettmann, west of Solingen and east of Düsseldorf on the right side of the Rhine. It is a middle sized industrial town with a forest and numero ...

a town in Mettmann district and to the southwest is

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, part of Langenfeld.

History

Garath is named after ''Schloss Garath'', a manor house that traces its history back to the 9th century. The oldest known record of Garath's existence is in a contract from 1271 witnessed by Bruno von Ganderode, the lord of Garath. For several centuries Garath consisted of little beyond the manor house and associated buildings. On 23 May 1929 Garath became a part of Benrath. On 31 July 1929 Benrath, including Garath, was declared part of Düsseldorf. In the mid-1950s the Düsseldorf local authority initiated a building programme to provide 8,000 homes south of Benrath. The first residents moved into finished flats in 1963. Several high-rise blocks of flats were built in Garath in the 1970s as low-cost accommodation. This has led to southern parts of Garath having a higher than average proportion of lower income, immigrant and unemployed residents.

Infrastructure

Garath has a direct connection to the

autobahn The (; German plural ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official German term is (abbreviated ''BAB''), which translates as 'federal motorway'. The literal meaning of the word is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track'. ...

s A 59 and A 46. It has its own

S-Bahn The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban- suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit systems, while smaller ones often resemble co ...

station. A highway connects Garath to central Düsseldorf. File:St-Matthäus.jpg, St Matthai File:Düsseldorf - Schloss Garath 02 ies.jpg, Schloss Garath File:Düsseldorf - Schloss Garath 08 ies.jpg File:Bf-d-garath.jpg,

Düsseldorf-Garath station Düsseldorf-Garath is a railway station situated at Garath, Düsseldorf in western Germany. It is served by the S6 and S68 lines of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn.Communal Administration, District Office (German)Communal Administration (German)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Garath Urban districts and boroughs of Düsseldorf