Roer

The Roer was old a French department. Its name comes from the river Roer ( Rur in German, Rour or Roule in French), which, come from the High Fagnes, crosses the border region to be thrown in the Meuse with Ruremonde, city of the Netherlands. The territory corresponds today to the part of the Land of Rhineland-of-North-Westphalia located at the west of the the Rhine and in particular the town of Cologne.

History

Before the French conquest, Cisrhénanie was a mosaic of several tens of States, members of the Saint Germanic Roman Empire. Occupied starting from 1794, transitory a République cisrhénane was proclaimed on September 5th, 1797 (a République of Mainz had already been to it on March 18th, 1793, requiring its annexation of France the 21 and obtaining it the 30), but the area was divided the November 4th 1797 by the Directoire in four departments, the Roer, the the Saar, the Rhine-and-Moselle and the Mount-Thunder, which were organized the January 23rd 1798 (stopped of the 4 pluviôse year VI). These departments were officially integrated into the French territory the March 9th 1801 and existed until the dismantling of the Empire in 1814.

Geography

The chief town was Aachen and the sub-prefectures Clèves, all. Kleve, Cologne, all. Köln and Crevelt, all. Krefeld. The department counted 616 287 inhabitants in 1809. The portable Gazetteer of the time pays: “This country produces many grains, abounds in pastures, mines of iron, collieries, mineral springs; there are a great number of forging mills, factories, furnaces, foundries of gun. There are cotton-spinnings, manufactures of fabrics, velvet, of brass and wire, needles, pins; tanneries, boiler makings, glassmakings, paper mills; considerable forests.”

Administration

Chief towns of canton of the district of Aachen: Aachen, Burtscheid, Düren, Eschweiler, Froitzheim, Geilenkirchen, Gemünd, Heinsberg, Linnich, Montjoie and Sittard.
Chief towns of canton of the district of Clèves: Clèves, Geldern, Goch, Horst, Kalkar, Cranenbourg, Wankum, Wesel and Xanten.
Chief towns of canton of the district of Crevelt: Crevelt, Bracht, Erkelenz, Kempen, Moers, Neersen, Neuss, Odenkirchen, Rheinberg, Uerdingen and Viersen.
Chief towns of canton of the district of Cologne: Cologne, Bergheim, Brühl, Dormagen, Elsen, Juliers, Kerpen, Lechenich, Weiden and Zülpich.

See too

List of the 130 departments of 1811

External bonds

Stopped relating to the setting in activity of the Constitution in the departments of Roer, of the Saar, of the Rhine-and-Moselle and the Mount-Thunder
Constitution of year X - 1802
Chart of the old French departments of North and the East

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