Timeline of Düsseldorf

The following is a timeline of the history of Düsseldorf, Germany.

Prior to 19th century

• 1186 – Counts of Berg in power.
• 1285 – St. Sebastianus Bruderschaft Kaiserswerth (militia) formed.[1]
• 1288 – Town privileges granted by Adolf V of Berg.[2]
• 1316 – St.-Sebastianus-Schützenvereins Düsseldorf (militia) established.[1]
• 1385 – Residence of the Counts of Berg established in Düsseldorf.[2]
• 1567 – Rathhaus built.[3]
• 1609 – Residence of the Electoral Palatinate relocates to Düsseldorf from Heidelberg.[4]
• 1629 – Church of St. Andrew built.[3]
• 1684 – Evangelishche Kirche built.[5]
• 1710 – Electoral palace remodelled.[3]
• 1716
  • Residence of the Electoral Palatinate relocates to Heidelberg.[4]
  • Neustadt laid out (approximate date).[2]
• 1760 – Jagerhof (electors' hunting lodge) built.[6]
• 1762 – Art Academy founded.
• 1767 – Hofgarten laid out.[7]
• 1774 – School of Law established (approximate date).[5]
• 1787 – Karlstadt laid out.[2]
• 1794 – Town besieged by French forces.[8]
• 1800 – Musik-Academie established.[9]

19th century

• 1802 - Fortifications demolished.[5]
• 1804 – Kastanienallee laid out.
• 1805
  • Town becomes capital of Grand Duchy of Berg.[2]
  • Palace art collection relocates to Munich.[8]
• 1806 – French in power.[3]
• 1812 – Breidenbacher Hof in business.
• 1813 – Hof-Garten expanded.[6]
• 1815
  • Prussians in power.[2]
  • Engelbert Schramm becomes mayor.
• 1818 – Lower Rhenish Music Festival held.
• 1819 – New Kunstakademie Düsseldorf founded as Königlich Preußische Kunstakademie (Royal Prussian Academy of Art); Dusselthal Asylum established.[3]
• 1829 – Artists' Society for the Rhinelands and Westphalia (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westphalen) founded.[9]
• 1838 – Bergisch-Märkische railway station opens.
• 1841 – Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway constructed.
• 1845 – Cologne-Minden railway station opens.
• 1846 – Ducal palace restored.[2]
• 1852
  • August: Singing festival held.[10]
  • Population: 31,000.[8]
• 1860 – Malkasten artists' club established.[11]
• 1864 – Düsseldorfer Symphoniker (orchestra) active.[12]
• 1867 – Galerie Paffrath in business.[13]
• 1872 – Electoral palace burns down.[6]
• 1875
  • Church of St. John built.[6]
  • City Theatre opens.[3]
• 1876
  • Trams begin operating.
  • Zoological Gardens established.
• 1877 – Rhenish railway station built.
• 1879 – Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway, House of the Rhenish Estates, and Academy of Art building constructed.[6]
• 1881 – Kunsthalle built.[3]
• 1884 – Düsseldorf Exchange founded.[14]
• 1885
  • City public library established.[15]
  • Population: 115,190.[2]
• 1891 – Düsseldorf Central Station opens.
• 1893 – Mannesmann (manufacturer) relocates to Düsseldorf.
• 1895 – Population: 175,985.[2]
• 1896 – Industrial art museum built.[2]
• 1898 – Bridge constructed.[2]
• 1899 – Apollo-Theater opens.
• 1900 – Peek & Cloppenburg in business.

20th century

• 1902 – Rhine Promenade laid out.[6]
• 1903 – Great Synagogue built.
• 1904 – Löbbecke Museum opens.
• 1905
  • Schauspielhausgebäude (theatre) opens.
  • Population: 252,630.[2]
• 1907 – Hospitals built.[6]
• 1909 – Ceramics museum founded.
• 1910
  • Königsallee Moving Pictures cinema opens.
  • Largest Fair on the Rhine relocates to fairgrounds in Oberkassel district.
• 1911 – Population: 312,000.[6]
• 1920 – Labor strike.
• 1921 – Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH relocates to Düsseldorf.
• 1924 – Wilhelm Marx House (high-rise) built.
• 1926 – Planetarium and Rheinstadion built.
• 1927 – Airport opens.
• 1929 – Kaiserswerth becomes part of city.
• 1935
  • Robert Schumann Hochschule formed.
  • Ice stadium opens on Brehmstraße.
• 1936 – Düsseldorf Central Station rebuilt.
• 1937 – Reich's Exhibition of a Productive People held.
• 1945 – April 16: German Resistance launches Aktion Rheinland; April 17: City taken by U.S. 97th Infantry Division.
• 1946
  • City becomes capital of North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • Handelsblatt and Rheinische Post newspapers begin publication.
• 1947
  • 28 March: Food protest.[16]
  • Kom(m)ödchen premieres.
• 1950 – Institut Français Düsseldorf founded.
• 1951 – Drupa printing equipment trade fair begins.
• 1955 – Deutsche Oper am Rhein established.
• 1956 – Opernhaus Düsseldorf re-opens.
• 1957 – North bridge constructed.
• 1958 – New Synagogue built.
• 1960
  • Willi Becker becomes mayor.
  • Dreischeibenhaus built.
• 1961 – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen founded.
• 1962 – Tausendfüßler bridge built.
• 1965 – Marionetten-Theater housed in Palais Wittgenstein.
• 1966 – University of Düsseldorf established.
• 1967 – Kunsthalle Düsseldorf built.
• 1968
  • Düsseldorf Grand Prix tennis tournament begins.
  • Komödie Düsseldorf founded.
• 1969
  • Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus built.
  • Düsseldorf Boat Show begins.
• 1971
  • Fachhochschule Düsseldorf founded.
  • Philips Halle arena opens.
• 1974 – Botanical garden established.
• 1975 – City districts shaped (approximate date).
• 1979 – Tonhalle Düsseldorf and Flehe Bridge open.
• 1981
  • Düsseldorf Stadtbahn (light rail) begins operating.
  • Rheinturm built.
• 1982 – Collections Premieren Düsseldorf clothing trade fair begins.[17]
• 1984 – Von hier aus art exhibit held.
• 1986 – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen building inaugurated.
• 1987 – Aquazoo–Löbbecke Museum opens.
• 1993 – Rheinufer Tunnel opens.
• 1994 – Schadow Arkaden shopping mall built.
• 1996 – Capitol Theater opens.
• 1998 – Neuer Zollhof and Stadttor built.
• 1999 – Joachim Erwin becomes mayor.
• 2000 – Düsseldorf Airport railway station opens.

21st century

• 2001
  • Arag-Tower built.
  • Museum Kunstpalast opens.[18]
• 2002 – Japan Day festival begins.
• 2005
  • Lichtburg Studio Theater opens.
  • AMD Academy of Fashion and Design founded.
• 2006 – ISS Dome arena opens.
• 2007 – Kunst im Tunnel established.
• 2008 – Dirk Elbers becomes mayor.
• 2011
  • Eurovision Song Contest 2011 held.
  • Population: 592,393.
• 2014 – June: Storm.

See also

• Düsseldorf history
• List of mayors of Düsseldorf
• Timelines of other cities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia:^(de) Aachen, Bonn, Cologne, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Münster

References

1. Hermann Tallau (2008). "Alteste (100) Schützenvereinigungen 799-1392". Ein Kaleidoskop zum Schützenwesen (in German). Duderstadt: Mecke Druck und Verlag. ISBN 978-3-936617-85-6.
2. Britannica 1910.
3. "Düsseldorf", The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance, Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1882, OCLC 7416969
4. "Düsseldorf", A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent (17th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1871, OCLC 5358857, OL 6936276M
5. Karl Stieler (1903), "From Dusseldorf to the Dutch Frontier", The Rhine from its source to the sea, London: William Glaisher, OL 14039550M
6. "Düsseldorf", The Rhine, including the Black Forest & the Vosges, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1911, OCLC 21888483
7. "Düsseldorf", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book for Belgium and the Rhine; and Portions of Rhenish Germany, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1897
8. "Düsseldorf", Murray's Handbook for Belgium and the Rhine, London: J. Murray, 1852, OL 23365744M
9. Cecelia Hopkins Porter (1989). "The Reign of the "Dilettanti": Düsseldorf from Mendelssohn to Schumann". Musical Quarterly. 73.
10. Lowell Mason (1854), "Great Musical Festival at Dusseldorf", Musical letters from abroad: including detailed accounts of the Birmingham, Norwich, and Dusseldorf musical festivals of 1852, New York: Mason Brothers
11. W. Pembroke Fetridge (1874), "Düsseldorf", Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East, New York: Harper & Brothers
12. Colin Lawson, ed. (2003). "Orchestras Founded in the 19th Century (chronological list)". Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00132-8.
13. "Galerie Paffrath". Retrieved January 3, 2013.
14. Americana 1918.
15. Stadtbuchereien Ladeshauptstadt Düsseldorf. "Geschichte der Stadtbüchereien".
16. "March 24-April 6, 1947". Chronology of International Events and Documents. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs. 3. 1947. JSTOR 40545021.
17. Catherine C. Fraser; Dierk O. Hoffman (2006), Pop Culture Germany, ABC-Clio, ISBN 9781851097388, OL 9491197M, 1851097384
18. "History". Museum Kunstpalast. Archived from the original on December 29, 2012. Retrieved January 3, 2013.

Bibliography

in English

• "Düsseldorf", Appleton's European Guide Book Illustrated, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871
• Norddeutscher Lloyd (1896), "Düsseldorf", Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England, Berlin: J. Reichmann & Cantor, OCLC 8395555
• G. Holscher (1900), "Düsseldorf", A Guide to the Rhine, Cologne: Hoursch & Bechstedt, OCLC 8672751
• "Düsseldorf", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
• "Düsseldorf", Encyclopedia Americana, New York: Encyclopedia Americana Corp., 1918

in other languages

• Nicolas de Pigage (1781), La Galerie électorale, de Dusseldorff, ou, Catalogue raisonné de ses tableaux (in French), Bruxelles: J.B. Jorez, OL 24342357M

External links

• History of the city of Düsseldorf (in German)
• Stadtarchiv Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf. "Düsseldorfer Zeitliste" [Düsseldorf Timeline] (in German).
• Links to fulltext city directories for Dusseldorf via Wikisource