Urdenbach is an urban borough

Borough

A borough is an administrative division in various countries. In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing township although, in practice, official use of the term varies widely....

 of Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...

.
It is located in the south of the city, next to the neighboring town Monheim am Rhein

Monheim am Rhein

Monheim am Rhein is a town on the right 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 the south...

 and bordered by the river Rhine.

History

The river Rhine changed his way in the 14. century A.C. at the place today Urdenbach is located. It was not only a fishing settlement, but a place of trading. There are a lot of timber framed

Timber framing

Timber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns...

 houses, built up in that era. The Calvinist Church is from the year 1692, constructed in the baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 style. The Roman Catholic Church was built in Neo-romanesque

Romanesque Revival architecture

Romanesque Revival is a style of building employed beginning in the mid 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque architecture...

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

The Benrath line

Benrath line

In German linguistics, the Benrath line is the maken-machen isogloss: dialects north of the line have the original in maken , while those to the south have...

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

Statistics

• area: 7,64 km²
• population: about 10,500 people
• Grundschule: 2
• Gymnasium
  Gymnasium (school)
  A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...
  
  s: 1
• no highway connection, no station, no tram line
• 2 bus lines (784, 788)
• 1 federal road
  Bundesstraße
  Bundesstraße , abbreviated B, is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways.-Germany:...
  
  tangenting Urdenbach