Düsseldorf-Lierenfeld
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Lierenfeld is an urban borough 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 borders on Eller
Düsseldorf-Eller
Eller is an urban borough of Düsseldorf.It is located in the east of the central district. Eller has been a part of Düsseldorf since the year 1909.-History:Archeological findings tell of a continuous settlement in Eller up from the second century A.D....

, Oberbilk
Düsseldorf-Oberbilk
Oberbilk is an inner-city urban borough in the south-east of the German city of Düsseldorf. The back exit of the Central Station leads to Oberbilk. The District Court of Düsseldorf will take its new seat in Oberbilk, as will the main office of the Communal Library of Düsseldorf...

, Flingern
Düsseldorf-Flingern
Flingern is a former blue-collar borough of Düsseldorf. Located northeast of Düsseldorf , it is divided into two boroughs today: Flingern-Nord and Flingern-Süd....

 and Wersten
Düsseldorf-Wersten
Wersten is an urban borough of Düsseldorf. It is south of Eller and Oberbilk, east of Bilk, north of Holthausen.It has been a part of Düsseldorf since 1909.-History:Wersten was written mentioned first time in 1063 as 'Werstine'....

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Lierenfeld was a conglomerate of homesteads when it became a part of Düsseldorf in 1384.
For a long while Lierenfeld had an agricultural character.
It changed in the time of the Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times...

. It became mainly an industrial district.
In the 1920s the city of Düsseldorf tried to develop it to a nicer living area with a garden settlement. But Lierenfeld is mainly still an industrial area. There has been a change since the beginning of the 1990s: An old steelwork transmogrified to a great area discothèque - called "Stahlwerk" (steelwork in German), another disco is called "Tor 3" (gate 3 in German).
So Lierenfeld became a party and subculture area.
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