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Pempelfort is a city part in the North-east of the central District 1 of Düsseldorf.
It borders on Stadtmitte, Derendorf, the Cologne–Duisburg railway, connecting Flingern and Düsseltal, Oberbilk, Golzheim and the river Rhine.
Pempelfort has about 26,800 inhabitants in an area of 2.69 km², or nearly 10,000 inhabitants per km². Some important institutions such as the District Administration / Prefecture of Düsseldorf (Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf) and the Higher Court of Düsseldorf ( Oberlandesgericht) are located in Pempelfort. The head offices of the energy company E.ON and the Victoria Insurance company are also in Pempelfort.
There are museums and a music hall in Pempelfort:
- Theatermuseum (Museum of Theatre)
- museum kunst palast (Ehrenhof)
- NRW Forum (Ehrenhof)
- Tonhalle Düsseldorf (Music Hall, Ehrenhof)
The central park of Düsseldorf, the Hofgarten, and the Rheinpark are the two green areas in the borough.
The Rochuskirche, a church dedicated to St. Rochus, was partially destroyed in World War II and has only one surviving tower; the rest of the church is in experimental style.