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{{Short description|City district of Düsseldorf, Germany}}
[[File:Düsseldorf Stadtteil Unterbilk.svg|thumb|map of Düsseldorf, showing '''Unterbilk''' (in red) within [[Borough 3 (Düsseldorf)|Borough 3]] (in pink)]]

'''Unterbilk''' is an urban quarter in [[Borough 3 (Düsseldorf)|Borough 3]] of the [[North Rhine-Westphalia]] state capital [[Düsseldorf]]. It is the seat of the [[Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia]], the [[Rheinturm Düsseldorf|Rheinturm]] tower and, together with the [[Düsseldorf-Hafen|Düsseldorf docks]] is the centre of the media industry in Düsseldorf.

==Geography==
Unterbilk has an area of {{convert|1.59|km2|abbr=on}},<ref name=geo20>{{cite web|url=https://www.duesseldorf.de/fileadmin/Amt12/statistik/stadtforschung/download/03_geografie/SD_2021_Kap_3.pdf|title=Stadtgebietsprofile - Stadtbezirke und Stadtteile 03 Geografie|publisher=Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf|access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref> and 19,335 inhabitants (2020).<ref name=pop20>{{cite web|url=https://www.duesseldorf.de/fileadmin/Amt12/statistik/stadtforschung/download/05_bevoelkerung/SD_2021_Kap_5.pdf|title=Stadtgebietsprofile - Stadtbezirke und Stadtteile 05 Bevölkerung|publisher=Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf|access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref> It borders the urban boroughs of [[Düsseldorf-Hafen|Hafen]] (docks), [[Düsseldorf-Bilk|Bilk]] and [[Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt|Friedrichstadt]] within Borough 3 and [[Düsseldorf-Carlstadt|Carlstadt]] in [[Borough 1 (Düsseldorf)|Borough 1]], the very centre of the city.

==History==
Unterbilk was originally a part of Bilk, and was first mentioned in documents in 799 AD.
Düsseldorf was within the parish of Old St. Martin in Bilk until 1206. In 1384 Bilk was incorporated into Düsseldorf.

Unterbilk became a municipal district in its own right when the railway line from [[Neuss]] to Düsseldorf was constructed. The part of Bilk south of the line retained the name Bilk and that north of the tracks became Unterbilk.

The [[Industrial Revolution]] led to the rapid urbanization of Unterbilk in the 19th century. In 1876 the first horse racing track in Düsseldorf opened within Unterbilk, located on the Lausward meadows beside the Rhine. In 1890 construction began on Düsseldorf's docks, spreading over much of the Lausward meadow area and opening in 1896. The docks area later became a separate municipal district of Düsseldorf.

== Economy ==
The administration of the state of [[North Rhine-Westphalia]] is an important local employer, as is the engineering company [[Siemens]]. Since the 1980s the [[Tertiary sector of the economy|service sector]] has grown, especially after the transformation of much of the nearby docks area into the ''Medienhafen'' broadcast media, corporate office and entertainment district from the 1990s onwards.

== Buildings and monuments ==
In the [[Napoleonic]] era, the border between Unterbilk and its neighbouring district of Frederichstadt was delineated by Düsseldorf's [[fortifications]]. Following the [[Treaty of Lunéville]] in 1801 the fortifications were demolished, and the area became public gardens with two linked ornamental ponds, the Schwanenspiegel and Kaiserteich. Overlooking the gardens is the Renaissance-style ''Ständehaus'' building that was completed in 1880 and housed the regional parliament until 1988, despite being gutted by fire due to a [[World War II]] bombing raid in 1943 that left just its outer shell until reconstruction was completed in 1949. Today it houses part of the region's art collection, the ''[[Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen]]''.

The regional parliament moved in 1988 from the Ständehaus to buildings near Unterbilk's border with the docks area, close to the [[Rheinturm]] tower and the studios of the regional television and radio broadcaster [[Westdeutscher Rundfunk]].

The 20 floor postmodern, parallelogram-shaped office building named the ''[[Stadttor]]'' (City Gate) opened in 1998 and won architectural awards. Amongst its tenants is the Chancery of the prime minister of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The ''Florapark'' gardens opened in 1870 featuring a festival hall and greenhouse with palm trees and exotic animals. The buildings no longer exist.

The headquarters of the Düsseldorf police are in Unterbilk in buildings constructed in the 1920s on the site of a cavalry barracks.

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File:Düsseldorf (DerHexer) 2010-08-13 234.jpg|The Kaiserteich pond and the ''Ständehaus'' building, seat of the regional parliament until 1988, now an art museum
File:Landtag am Rhein in Düsseldorf -jha-.jpg|The current regional parliament building
File:WDR Funkhaus Düsseldorf.jpg|The regional TV and radio broadcaster [[Westdeutscher Rundfunk|WDR]]
File:Stadttor Duesseldorf 001.jpg|The [[Stadttor]] office building that houses the offices of the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
File:Polizeipraesidium in Duesseldorf-Unterbilk, von Suedosten.jpg|The Düsseldorf police headquarters
File:Wiese im Florapark in Duesseldorf-Unterbilk, von Suedosten.jpg|Florapark gardens
</gallery>

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071205072021/http://www.duesseldorf.de/bv/03/infos/historie.shtml Düsseldorf Communal Administration: District Mayor, Distr. 3]

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{{Düsseldorf Urban Districts}}

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[[Category:Urban districts and boroughs of Düsseldorf|Unterbilk]]

Unterbilk - Revision history

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