Your comfortable Apartments in Wersten

Some facts about Düsseldorf, Wersten and environs

Düsseldorf, a city of 600,000 inhabitants, is the capital of the German federal state of Northrhine-Westphalia. Originally a small village, it was named after a creek called the Düssel which flows into the Rhine. The seat of establishments and facilities of nationwide importance such as the international airport, the Stock Exchange, the trade fair grounds and a number of international industrial and commercial enterprises, Düsseldorf is a popular destination of business travellers. Düsseldorf also attracts many visitors as a centre of art, culture, commerce and the Rhenish lifestyle.

Your comfortable apartments located 4 km southwest of Düsseldorf’s city centre in the district called Wersten.

Wersten’s most important arterial road, the Kölner Landstraße (formerly called Bundesstraße 8 – Federal Highway No. 8) runs through the heart of the district from northwest to southwest. Along this bustling commercial axis you will find most of the district’s businesses including the most important ones forming an extended neighbourhood centre between the Wersterner Dorfstraße and the Ickerswarder Straße. The A46 Autobahn crosses the district along its East-West axis. After the Autobahn was lain underground through a tunnel in the eighties it no longer cuts off and isolates the northerly housing developments from the neighbourhood centre of Wersten.

The multi-lane Münchener Straße which was built in the western suburbs in the seventies takes up a major part of the south-bound through traffic coming from the Düsseldorf city centre and thus relieves the Kölner Landstraße. The backbone of the local public transport system in Wersten is comprised of the metropolitan light railway lines U74 and U77 to Holthausen which connect Wersten to the Düsseldorf Central Railway Station, to the city centre and to the Altstadt (the picturesque Old Town and nightclub and restaurant distict)in addition to tram line no. 701 originating from the Bilk university district which runs through Wersten and Holthausen to scenic Benrath (site of Schloss Benrath – a Baroque chateau with luxuriant park). By means of the express bus line SB50 and the bus lines 780, 782, and 785, it is possible to travel swiftly and directly from the Wersterner Dorfstraße station to the neighbouring towns of Haan, Erkrath and Hilden. The westerly and easterly residential areas of Wersten are serviced via the light metropolitan railway and tram and bus station Ickeswarder Straße by bus line 735 (travelling to Unterbacher See – Südpark). This bus line also provides a transverse transport link to the campus of Düsseldorf’s Heinrich Heine University in Bilk and to the districts of Eller-Süd and Vennhausen. In the meantime, the transport connections from the residential areas north of Autobahn A46 to the local public transport system has been considerably improved thanks to the extension of the bus line 723 route from the Südfriedhof (South Cemetery) via the University Clinics through to Eller-Mitte. Bus line 724 (Itter-Gerresheim)skirts the easterly residential areas of Wersten and connects these with Eller and Holthausen.

The Südpark (South Park) in the northwest area of Wersten is well worth a visit. In 1987 it served, together with the then already extant Volksgarten (People’s Garden), as the site of the Bundesgartenschau (Federal German Horticultural Exhibition) and lies partly within Wersten.

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