Baumberg
Baumberg (also Monheim-Baumberg) is part of the city of Monheim am Rhein in the district of Mettmann in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) at the southern border of Düsseldorf, placed on the eastern bank of the river Rhine.
[3][4] Until the 20th century Baumberg was a rural village, inhabited by mainly fishermen, (goat-)farmers and traditional craftsmen like basket weavers.
[1] The communities of Monheim and Baumberg joined the goat breeding association of the rural district of Solingen in November 1902.
[1] On September 26, 2004, the Boomberger Hippegarde association unveiled a monument on a traffic island at the junction of Schallenstrasse / Im Sträßchen in memory of the former goat breeding station of the Solingen district.
The bronze sculpture is industrially manufactured and shows a billy goat standing on its hind legs.
[12] The housing projects by Demag and trade-union-owned building company Neue Heimat boosted population to 5,000 residents in 1965 and to 10,000 in 1969.
[13] On 6 December 1975 the municipal reform resolution against the independence of Monheim and Baumberg was repealed, but Hitdorf remained a district of Leverkusen.
[16][17] In 2002, the Knipprather Busch allotment garden association, which was established in 1972, moved to Loheck in Baumberg, because the original location on the former Henkel landfill was to be renovated.
[13] In Baumberg there is also the Evangelistic Church Christliche Versammmlung (English: Christian Assembly), in which Darwin's theory of evolution is not recognized as scientific, but creationism is advocated.
Two come from Monheim am Rhein to the south, Monheimer Straße and Baumberger Chaussee, one, Urdenbacher Weg (Landesstraße 293), connects via Urdenbacher Kämpe to Düsseldorf-Urdenbach to the north; one, the Garather Weg (Kommunalstraße 13), to the west with Düsseldorf-Hellerhof and one, the Berghausener Straße (Landesstraße 353), to the west with Langenfeld, Rhineland.
The closest option for crossing the Rhine is the car ferry from Düsseldorf-Urdenbach to Dormagen-Zons in the district Rhein-Kreis Neuss.
Since summer 2012, a ferry from Monheim am Rhein to Dormagen-Piwipp has crossed the Rhine on weekends and public holidays.
[37] In 1908 the first tram ran between Monheim and Langenfeld train station and quickly became the most important means of transport.
As a result of motorization after the Second World War, the number of passengers fell drastically; The last tram with the final stop on the Hauptstraße (main street) below the Church of St. Dionysius ran on 15 June 1963.
Until August 31, 2013, there was the St. Josef Hospital in Monheim am Rhein,[47] which was closed due to high losses (8.5 million euros from 2008 to 2013)[48] and demolished in 2017.
[52] The shops are not very specialized, mainly selling consumer goods and everyday items such as food, flowers and stationery and there is a kiosk with a post office.
