Arrondissement de Crévelt

Department de la Roër

The Arrondissement de Crévelt , in German District Krefeld , was one of four arrondissements of the Département de la Roer in the Rhineland , which existed at the time of Napoleonic rule . Its main town (French chef-lieu ) was Krefeld (French Crévelt ).

It existed from 1798 to 1814 and was located between the Arrondissement de Clèves and the Arrondissement de Cologne , although it only shared a small piece of border with the Arrondissement d'Aix-la-Chapelle in Erkelenz . In 1801 the Département de la Roer becomes French national territory and Johannes Jakobus Bouget from Odenkirchen becomes sub-prefect of the Arrondissement de Crévelt. Most of the area came to Prussia in 1815 and to a very small extent to the Netherlands . Geographically, this former arrondissement essentially covered today's district of Viersen , the old district of Erkelenz , the old district of Moers and the current cities of Mönchengladbach , Krefeld and Neuss . It consisted of 89 mairies in 11 cantons and with around 150,000 inhabitants was the same size as the neighboring district of Cologne.

Classification

The cantons belonged to the Arrondissement de Crévelt