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Hassels is an urban quarter in
Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second- ...
, Germany, part of Borough 9. It has an area of , and 18,465 inhabitants (2020). It was called "Hasselholt" (modern German ''Haselholz'') meaning hazel wood until the 17th century, when it was shortened to its current name. Hassels belonged to the Knights of
Eller Eller may refer to * Eller (surname) *Düsseldorf-Eller, an urban borough of Düsseldorf, Germany *Ediger-Eller, a community on the Moselle in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany *Eller (Rhume), a river of Thuringia and Lower Saxony, Germany ** Weilroder ...
and was later administered by the mayor of Benrath. In 1929 Hassels and Benrath were absorbed into Düsseldorf. Large housing developments were built in Hassels in the 1920s, the 1950s and in the 1970s. Hassels' 17th century church no longer exists. St. Antonius is a Catholic church built in 1929 and there is a Protestant church built in 1964.


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Urban districts and boroughs of Düsseldorf {{Düsseldorf-geo-stub