Schleuse Kettwig

Es war ein toller Tag und schönen Orte It was a wonderful day and a beautiful place

The Kettwig Ruhr Bridge was first mentioned in 1282. The river crossing was fought over in the Thirty Years War. The village or the farmers Kettwig - north of the Ruhr - belonged to the Reichsabbey Werden until 1803, was then administered by Prussia until 1806 and then became part of the Grand Duchy of Berg until 1813. Since 1815 the place was again Prussian, first in the Duisburg district, then in the Essen district (until August 1, 1929). Since 1857 Kettwig was an independent city. In 1929, the city of Kettwig was incorporated into the Düsseldorf-Mettmann district, as the district was dissolved with the freedom of Essen. The part south of the Ruhr - Kettwig in front of the bridge - belonged to the Duchy of Berg until 1806, then to the Grand Duchy of Berg until 1813, later Prussian in the district of Düsseldorf - was not incorporated into Kettwig until May 15, 1930 as part of the dissolved municipality of Laupendahl. The former rule of Oefte belonged to the Mettmann district from 1815 to 1930 and was ceded by Heiligenhaus to Kettwig on April 1, 1936. Since Kettwig, which was characterized solely by the cloth industry, was not home to any war-related industry, it was largely spared from the bombing of the Second World War. The historic old town with numerous half-timbered houses was largely preserved, although some intact half-timbered houses - including the restaurant "Zum Treppchen" - were demolished there between 1975 and 1977 as part of the redesign of Schulstrasse and Mayor-Fiedler-Platz. After the incorporation into the city of Essen in October 1979, the Bürgermeister-Fiedler-Platz in front of the historic Kettwig town hall was named in honor of the last mayor of the city of Kettwig, Albert Fiedler (born October 3, 1903 in Heidhausen, † June 3, 1976 in Kettwig). [1] On January 1, 1975, the city of Kettwig was incorporated into the city of Essen from the Düsseldorf-Mettmann district, despite massive resistance from the population as part of the regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia; the westernmost Kettwig district of Mintard, which was not incorporated into the municipality until 1930, fell to Mülheim an der Ruhr. [2] A referendum for the restoration of the city and reunification in the Mettmann district, carried out in Kettwig in 1996, which demanded a majority of almost 55 percent of the voters, was rejected by the state government in autumn 1997. The incorporation in 1975 did not change anything about Kettwig's membership of the Archdiocese of Cologne. The St. Altfrid youth education center located in Kettwig was given to the diocese of Essen when it was founded in 1958 by the archbishopric of Cologne. The predominantly Protestant population (around 58 percent) of Kettwig belonged to the Mülheim an der Ruhr parish until 2015, but then moved to the Essen parish. Kettwig also kept its own telephone code “02144”, changed in 1978 to “02054”, and the names of its stations “Kettwig” (not “Essen-Kettwig”) and “Kettwig Stausee”. Until 1975 Kettwig had the postcode 4307, then "4300 Essen 18" and with the introduction of the five-digit postcodes since 1993 "45219 Essen-Kettwig". Until 1975 motor vehicles were registered with a "D", after the incorporation an "E" for Essen. Until 1975, the license plate with the "D" was the registration number for the city of Düsseldorf and for the district of Düsseldorf-Mettmann. Only by different combinations of the letters and numbers after the "D" could one recognize whether the vehicle was from the city of Düsseldorf or from the district of Düsseldorf-Mettmann. According to Wikipedia.

Super relaxing you can treat yourself every now and then you have to say but the parking spaces are difficult to find

Very nice area to go for a walk and very nice route on the Ruhr to cycle.

A small but fine lock in the heart of the Ruhr valley. On our journey with the Escargo, we took the boat here in Kettwig and came a good deal closer to our destination, Baldeney Lake.