Unterrath is one of the 50 quarters of the City of
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...
,
Germany
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. Located in the north of the city, it is part of
Borough 6. It is near
Düsseldorf Airport
Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the seventh-largest city in Germany, with a 2022 population of 629,047.
The Düsse ...
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''Relation: Unterrath (91283)''
in OpenStreetMap
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Geography
It is bordering on Düsseldorf-Lohausen
Lohausen is an urban quarter in the north of Düsseldorf, bordering on Stockum, Kaiserswerth, Unterrath, Wittlaer, the river Rhine and Ratingen
Ratingen (; ) is a town in the district of Mettmann in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It lies ...
, Lichtenbroich, Rath, Mörsenbroich, Derendorf und Stockum
Stockum is an urban quarter of Düsseldorf, part of Borough 5. It is located north of Unterrath and Golzheim, east of Kaiserswerth, west of Lohausen and the Düsseldorf Airport, south of Kalkum.
Stockum has an area of , and 5,596 inhabitant ...
. Unterrath has an area of ,
Name and History
The royal court of the honschaft Rath was in Unterrath. In 1869, the Carthusians founded their first German convent in Unterrath.
By its own wish, Unterrath became a part of Düsseldorf in 1909, together with Rath and Lichtenbroich.
Unterrath is mainly a housing area. Daimler automotive company has factories in Unterrath.
See also
* Düsseldorf-Unterrath station
Düsseldorf-Unterrath is a railway station situated at Unterrath, Düsseldorf in western Germany. It is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S 1 (Dortmund–Solingen) every 30 minutes and S 11 ( Düsseldorf Airport Terminal–Bergisch Gladbach) e ...
References
Unterrath
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