Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine

The Province Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine was one of first ten provinces (1822: 9, 1824: 8, 1850: 9 1866 /8: 12, 1878: 13), in which the state of Prussia after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 by Regulation due to improved device the provincial authorities were divided on 30 April 1815. With the currently known Lower Rhine region, they hardly encamped.

The province comprised substantially certain, to the south and west of Cologne -lying areas, the Electorate of Trier, Luxembourg and parts of Limburg, Manderscheid, Malmedy, estates of the Palatinate, the Rhine Count of the Duchy of Jülich, the city of Aachen, as well as other smaller dominions. After the end of the Napoleonic wars, the General Government Middle Rhine and Lower Rhine were first provisionally formed, from which the province of the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine was born.

The seat of the upper Bureau ( Provincial Government ) of the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine Province was in Koblenz.

Development

On April 30, 1815, the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine included the following two districts

  • Region of Koblenz
  • Region of Cologne

As of November 9, 1815 after the adoption of amending the classification of the Rhine provinces

  • Region of Koblenz
  • Region of Trier

As of November 20, 1815 after the Second Treaty of Paris was added Aachen and the Grand Duchy was divided into the following administrative districts

  • Region of Koblenz
  • Region of Aachen
  • Region of Trier

Their respective administrations took to April 22, 1816 their activities.

Following the unification of the administrative districts of Kleve and Dusseldorf to the governmental district Dusseldorf on January 1, 1822 were on June 22, 1822 by royal cabinet order, the two Rhine provinces, namely the province of the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine and the province of Jülich -Cleves -Berg, united to the Prussian Rhine Province. By 1830, one speaks of the Rhine provinces, and then only by the " Rhine Province ". Administrative headquarters of the Rhenish upper Bureau was Koblenz. The Rhine Province (s) set (s) since the June 27, 1822 ie from five administrative districts of:

  • Region of Aachen
  • Regierungsbezirk Dusseldorf
  • Region of Cologne
  • Region of Koblenz
  • Region of Trier
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