Urdenbach is an urban quarter 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 ...

, part of Borough 9. It is located in the south of the city, next to the neighboring town

Monheim am Rhein Monheim am Rhein (, ; ) is a town on the right (eastern) bank of the river Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Monheim belongs to the district of Mettmann – with the southern suburbs of Düsseldorf to the north, and the Bergisches Land to ...

and bordered by the river

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History

The river

changed its way in the 14th century at the place where Urdenbach is located today. It was not only a fishing settlement, but a place of trading. There are a lot of

timber framed Timber framing () and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs. If the struc ...

houses, built up in that era. The

Calvinist Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed Protestantism, Continenta ...

Church is from the year 1692, constructed in the

baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

style. The

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

Church was built in

Neo-romanesque Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended t ...

style in 1893. Urdenbach became part of Düsseldorf in 1929. The

Benrath line In German linguistics, the Benrath line () is the isogloss: dialects north of the line have the original in (to make), while those to the south have the innovative (). The line runs from Aachen in the west via Benrath (south of Düsseldorf) ...

, the line between northern German pronunciations and southern German pronunciations, goes across Urdenbach.

Statistics

Urdenbach has an area of , and 10,559 inhabitants (2020). *

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: 2 * Gymnasiums: 1 * no highway connection, no station, no tram line * 2 bus lines (784, 788) * 1 federal road tangenting Urdenbach

Gallery

Urdenbacher Dorfkirche.JPG, Calvinist Church Düsseldorf, Urdenbach, Gerichtsgebäude, 2013-02 CN-03.jpg, Former courthouse, built in 1535 Spritzenhaus von 1784 Düsseldorf-Urdenbach.JPG, Old fire engine house ("Spritzenhaus", 1784)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Urdenbach Urban districts and boroughs of Düsseldorf