Roer (department)
Department of Roer Département de la Roer (French) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Department of the French First Republic and the First French Empire | |||||||||||||||||||||
1797–1814 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Roer (red) besides other departments in the North of the French Empire, 1811 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Capital | Aachen | ||||||||||||||||||||
Area transferred | |||||||||||||||||||||
• 1808 | Wesel from Prussia | ||||||||||||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||||||||||||
• 1809 | 616,287 | ||||||||||||||||||||
• 1812 | 631,094 | ||||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||||
• Established | 1797 | ||||||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1814 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Today part of | Germany Netherlands |
Roer (French: Guelders and some smaller territories. In 1805 the city of Wesel was added to the department. The capital was Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen).
The department was subdivided in the following arrondissements and cantons (situation in 1812):[1]
- Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), cantons: Aachen (2 cantons), Burtscheid, Düren, Eschweiler, Froitzheim, Geilenkirchen, Gemünd, Heinsberg, Linnich, Monschau and Sittard.
- .
- Krefeld (Crefeld), cantons: Krefeld, Bracht, Erkelenz, Kempen, Moers, Neersen, Neuss, Odenkirchen, Rheinberg, Uerdingen, Viersen
- .
Its population in 1812 was 631,094.[1]
After
Napoleon was defeated in 1814, the department was divided between the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (left bank of the Meuse and a strip along its right bank including Gennep, Tegelen and Sittard, in present-day Dutch Limburg) and the Kingdom of Prussia (Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, now part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
).
References
- ^ Gallica16 July 2013 (in French)