Oberkassel () is a part of
Düsseldorf
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's
Borough 4. Oberkassel lies on the west side of the river
Rhine
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, the opposite side of the central district of Düsseldorf. It has an area of ,
and 19,052 inhabitants (2020).
Oberkassel is an economically well-situated borough with an average income of 61.465 Euro
[Statistisches Jahrbuch 2010 für Düsseldorf] and an unemployment rate below 5%. Nearly half of the households in Oberkassel are single households. The average age is about 45 years.
History
The settlement
Heerdt
Heerdt is one of the older quarters of the city of Düsseldorf, part of Borough 4 (Düsseldorf), Borough 4. Heerdt and its neighbouring quarters Düsseldorf-Oberkassel, Oberkassel, Düsseldorf-Niederkassel, Niederkassel and Düsseldorf-Lörick, Lö ...
was first mentioned was in the 9th century CE.
*1898: The
Oberkassel Bridge between
Düsseldorf-Heerdt
Heerdt is one of the older quarters of the city of Düsseldorf, part of Borough 4. Heerdt and its neighbouring quarters Oberkassel, Niederkassel and Lörick lie on the left side of the river Rhine, opposite to the other districts of Düsseldorf ...
and Düsseldorf was opened.
*1909: Heerdt, and with Heerdt Oberkassel, became a part of Düsseldorf.
*1920: Following the use of the
Freikorps
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by the German
Social Democratic
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Government, Oberkassel was occupied by
Belgian troops.
*1945: The bridge was nearly captured by American troops disguised as Germans. It was then dynamited by the retreating
Wehrmacht
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.
In the 20th century, Oberkassel became a quarter of Düsseldorf.
Modern Oberkassel
Oberkassel is a socially well-to-do part of Düsseldorf. The average age of Oberkassel's residents is 44.
A large part of Düsseldorf's Japanese population lives in Oberkassel.
There is a Japanese kindergarten and a Japanese school in
Düsseldorf-Niederkassel
Niederkassel is a quarter of the city of Düsseldorf, part of Borough 4. It is located on the west side of the river Rhine, bordering Oberkassel and Lörick. It has an area of , and 6,079 inhabitants (2020). It was connected to Düsseldorf when ...
, a neighboring district, as well as a Japanese cultural centre, the Eko-House, and a
Buddhist
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temple.
Education
There are two primary schools in Oberkassel, the Comenius-Gymnasium on Hansaallee and the private
Japanese International School
''Zaigai kyōiku shisetsu'' ( 在外教育施設 'Overseas educational institution'), or in English, Japanese international school or overseas Japanese school, may refer to one of three types of institutions officially classified by the Ministry ...
near the neighboring district of
Niederkassel
Niederkassel (; Ripuarian: ''Neddekaaßel'') is a town in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of around 37,000 people. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. north-east of Bonn and sou ...
. In Niederkassel there is another high school, a secondary school and a Catholic primary school. The secondary school, the
Maximilian-Kolbe-Schule in the old Comenius-Gymnasium building, located on the district border with Niederkassel, was closed at the end of the 1990s. The building is now home to the branch on the left bank of the Rhine of the city's Clara Schumann Music School.
[Outline of the school]
"
''Japanische Internationale Schule in Düsseldorf
is a Japanese international school in Oberkassel, Düsseldorf, Germany.
''Japanische Ergänzungsschule in Düsseldorf'' (デュッセルドルフ日本語補習校 ''Dyusserudorufu Nihongo Hoshūkō''), a Japanese weekend school, is a part of t ...
''. Retrieved on 1 January 2014.
Interesting buildings
* Rom.-Catholic St. Antonius Church, constructed between 1909 and 1910 by
Josef Kleesattel in the
Neo-romantic
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It has been used ...
style
* Evangelical Resurrection Church (Auferstehungskirche), built between 1913 and 1914 by
Julius Stobbe and
Wilhelm Verheyen
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* Wilhe ...
.
* The
Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel opened in 2007, and has two floors of exhibition space, over .
References
External links
Communal Administration, District Administration (German)
Urban districts and boroughs of Düsseldorf
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