Golzheim is a quarter of

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in Borough 1 on the

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, just north of the city center. It is primarily a business and hotel district, but retains some of the old stately villas.

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 could not 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

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Exhibition of 1937. The waterfront on the Rhine, the ''Rheinpark Golzheim'', 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

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in 1971. Many of the apartments, surrounding the area of ''Kaiserswerther Straße'' and ''Uerdinger Straße'', were used as holiday apartments for members of the German Armed Forces in the 1930s. From the air, gun emplacements can still be seen on top of these apartments and these were used to defend Düsseldorf during

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. Since 1958 Golzheim is the place of the New Synagogue of Düsseldorf, which is the religious center for about 7.500 members of the local Jewish community, the third largest in Germany.

Economy and infrastructure

Golzheim is one of the most prestigious office addresses in the city."New Perspectives: Market Report for Germany 2004" Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Immobilienfonds
/ref> The tallest building is the ''Sky Office'' at 22 stories which was completed in 2006. On the ''Ehrenhof'' are the ''NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft'' (North Rhine-Westphalia Forum for Culture and Trade), and the art museum (

Museum Kunst Palast The Kunstpalast, formerly Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf is an art museum in Düsseldorf. History The roots of the museum go back around 300 years. In 1932, the collection of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Academy of Art) was housed in the Kunstmu ...

). The ''Tonhalle Düsseldorf'' (concert hall), located next to Oberkassel bridge on the Rhine, used to be a planetarium. It and the ''Rheinpark Golzheim'' are important places for events. 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 ''Rheinpark Golzheim'' is not a classical park, but is more of a greenbelt, 24 hectares, between ''Cecilienallee'' 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

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to the west, on

Pempelfort to the south, on Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth">Kaiserswerth Kaiserswerth is one of the oldest quarters of the City of Düsseldorf, part of Borough 5. It is in the north of the city and next to the river Rhine. It houses the where Florence Nightingale worked. Kaiserswerth has an area of , and 7,923 in ...

to the north, and on Düsseldorf-Derendorf">Derendorf to the east.

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20061023164155/http://www.duesseldorf.de/bv/01/stadtteile/golzheim.shtml *https://web.archive.org/web/20070304201906/http://www.duesseldorf.de/bv/01/infos/historie.shtml *https://web.archive.org/web/20040919055933/http://www.duesseldorf-today.rp-online.de/cityguide/stadtrundgang/tour8/tour803.shtml *https://web.archive.org/web/20070304201434/http://www.duesseldorf.de/bv/01/infos/daten.shtml *http://www.nrw-forum.de/
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