Arrondissement de Clèves

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Department de la Roer

The Arrondissement de Clèves (German: Arrondissement Kleve ; also district of Kleve ) was one of four administrative units of the Département de la Roer (Roerdepartement) in the Rhineland . The district was in the years 1798 to 1814 of the French Republic (1798-1804) and the French Empire (1804-1814).

It formed the northern part of the department named after the Rur . In 1815, due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna, the area came largely to Prussia and to a lesser extent to the Netherlands . Geographically, this former arrondissement essentially covered today's Kleve district and parts of today 's Wesel district . With around 90,000 inhabitants, it was the smallest arrondissement of the Departement de la Roer.

The Wesel on the right bank of the Rhine was added as a bridgehead to the Arrondissement de Clèves as the 41st canton of the department in 1808.

Classification

The Arrondissement of Kleve is divided into the cantons :

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Arrondissement of Kleve as part of the French Empire in 1808 from: r-steger.de (17 Aug 2010)
  2. ↑ Roerdepartement (Département de la Roer) at Portal Rheinische Geschichte ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de
  3. ^ Description of the Roerdepartement at the Landesarchiv NRW Rhineland department