Erkrath
Town
Coat of arms of Erkrath
Coat of arms
Location of Erkrath within Mettmann district
Erkrath is located in Germany
Erkrath
Erkrath
Erkrath is located in North Rhine-Westphalia
Erkrath
Erkrath
Coordinates: 51°13′26″N 06°54′53″E / 51.22389°N 6.91472°E / 51.22389; 6.91472
CountryGermany
StateNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. regionDüsseldorf
DistrictMettmann
Subdivisions3
Government
 • Mayor (2020–25) Christoph Schultz[1] (CDU)
Area
 • Total26.89 km2 (10.38 sq mi)
Elevation
68 m (223 ft)
Population
 (2021-12-31)[2]
 • Total43,594
 • Density1,600/km2 (4,200/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
40699
Dialling codes0211, 02104, 02129, 02103
Vehicle registrationME
Websitewww.erkrath.de

Erkrath (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁkʁaːt] ⓘ) is a town in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Geography

Erkrath is situated on the river Düssel, directly east of Düsseldorf and west of Wuppertal, close to the famous Neandertal. It has two stations, Erkrath station, which is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 8, and Erkrath Nord station, which is served by S-Bahn line S 28, both at 20-minute intervals.

History

In that part of Neandertal, which is located in Erkrath, in the summer of 1856, quarry workers discovered the fossilised remains of what became known as the Neanderthal man or Homo neanderthalensis in Feldhof cave. The name Erkrath was first mentioned in 1148. Erkrath received town rights in 1966. In 1975, the municipality of Hochdahl was incorporated into Erkrath. As well its former borough Unterbach was incorporated into Düsseldorf. Only a part of Unterbach called Unterfeldhaus remained as now a borough of its own with Erkrath. Erkrath today has three local parts: Erkrath, Hochdahl and Unterfeldhaus.

Mayors

[3]

  • Johann Kaiser (1898–1907) (the old town hall was built in 1899)
  • Franz Zahren (1907–1930)
  • Werner Hallauer (1930–1935)
  • Heinrich Rasche (1935–1945), NSDAP, later FDP
  • Wilhelm Broch (1945–1946)
  • August Westerholz (1946), SPD
  • Hermann Moritz (1946–1949), CDU
  • Alex Bendt (1949–1954), SPD
  • Gertrud Thomé (later: Küpper) (1954–1956), CDU
  • Alex Bendt (1956–1961), SPD
  • Gertrud Küpper (geb. Thomé) (1961–1963), CDU
  • Johannes van Oost (1963–1964),
  • Gertrud Küpper (geb. Thomé) (1964–1972), CDU
  • Hans Weyer (1972–1974), SPD
  • Aloys Kiefer (1975–1983), CDU
  • Gloria Ziller (1983–1989), CDU
  • Rudolf Unger (1989–1999), SPD
  • Arno Werner (1999–2015), CDU
  • Christoph Schultz (since 2015), CDU[4]

Twin towns – sister cities

Erkrath is twinned with:[5]

Notable people

Johann Heinrich Bongard around 1840
Joachim Neander
  • Joachim Neander (c. 1650–1680) German pastor, church poet and composer, first author about the Neandertal
  • Aleksandar Ristić (born 1944), footballer and coach (among others Fortuna Düsseldorf), lived in Erkrath at this time
  • Karl Sudhoff (1853–1938), founder of the medical history as a scientific discipline in Germany, was from 1885 to 1905 doctor of the Hochdahl iron foundry and Armenian physician, later also councilor of Hochdahl-Millrath
  • Toni Turek (1919–1984), national goalkeeper and world champion of Bern 1954, lived during his years with Fortuna Düsseldorf and his world title in Erkrath. 50 years after Bern the Erkrath Stadium was named after him (Toni Turek Stadium)
  • Karl Wenders (1841–1905), mayor of Neuss, Member of Reichstag and member of Landtag

References

  1. ↑ Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 21 June 2021.
  2. ↑ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2021" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  3. ↑ Stadt Erkrath (Hrsg.), Erika Stubenhöfer: Die Erkrather Bürgermeister 1898–1999 – Stadtgeschichte im Spiegel von Biografien 2004 (ohne ISBN)
  4. ↑ Ergebnis auf der Webseite der Stadt Erkrath: http://wahlen.erkrath-it.de/bw2015.html
  5. ↑ "Haushaltsrede 2019 CDU-Fraktionsvorsitzender Wolfgang Jöbges" (PDF). erkrath.de (in German). Erkrath. 2019-02-26. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
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