What is Kaiserswerth?
{{Orphan|date=February 2022}} [[File:Kaiserswerth.png|thumb|90px|Coat of arms]] '''Kaiserswerth''' is a settlement with a more than 1,000-year history. It is one of the oldest parts of [[Düsseldorf]].<ref>{{cite book |editor = Florence Nightingale and Lynn McDonald |title=Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War |url = https://archive.org/details/florencenighting0000mcdo_s3m1 |chapter = An introduction to Vol 14 |year= 2010 |isbn=978-0889204690 |publisher= [[Wilfrid Laurier University Press]] }}</ref> == Geography == It is in the north of Düsseldorf, next to the river Rhine. Kaiserswerth has 7,712 inhabitants and an area of 4.71&nbsp;km². == History == About the year 700 the [[monk]] St. [[Suitbert]] founded a [[Benedictine]]-[[abbey]] there. It was destroyed 88 years later. The [[Kaiserpfalz]] (temporary seat of the [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman Emperor]]) was built in 1045. In 1062 the young German King [[Heinrich IV]] (still a child) was kidnapped by the archbishop of Cologne. In 1174 Friederick I [[Barbarossa]] moved the Rhine customs collection to Kaiserswerth. So the bishop took over control over the whole empire. Following emperors used Kaiserswerth as temporary seat like as prison for high-range prisoners. Between 1212 and 1215 the Count of Berg tried to get out prisoners and made the ground around the Castle dry. In 1273 the Emperor pledged Kaiserswerth to the archbishop of Cologne. In 1689 Kaiserswerth was particularly destroyed by France during the [[War of the Palatine Succession]]. During the [[Spanish war of succession]] the Bishop of Cologne stayed with France. Kaiserswerth got a French garrison. In 1702 the city was therefore besieged by the Grand Alliance. After that war the castle was mostly destroyed. In the 19th century Kaiserswerth was famous by its deaconess clinic. [[Florence Nightingale]] visited in 1850 and learned from Pastor Theodor Fliedner and the deaconesses working there for the sick and the deprived. Nightingale published ''The Institution of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine,