Viersen (district)

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Viersen

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State:	North Rhine-Westphalia
Capital:	Viersen } } |- | Area:||563.29 km² |- | Inhabitants:||304,112 (2002) |- | pop. density:||540 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||VIE |- | Homepage:||http://www.kreis-viersen.de |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center| |} Viersen is a Kreis (district) in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Cleves, Wesel, district-free Krefeld, Neuss, district-free Mönchengladbach, Heinsberg and the Dutch province Limburg. Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Coat of arms 4 Towns and municipalities 5 External links History In 1816 the new prussian government created the district Kempen, originally belonging to the Regierungsbezirk Kleve, but that one was dissolved in 1822 already and since then it belongs to Düsseldorf. In 1929 the district was enlarged significantly and renamed to Kempen-Krefeld. In 1975 the district again changed its borders and was renamed to Viersen, even though the capital remained in Kempen, until it finally moved to Viersen in 1984. Since 1983 the district has a partner-district in the England, the Cambridgeshire county. Geography The district is located in the lowlands between the Rhine and the Meuse river. Highest elevation is the Süchtelner Höhen with 90.7 m, lowest the Pielbruch with 28.6 m. Coat of arms In top of the coat of arms is the black cross of the Cologne bishops, as the district did belong to the clerical state Cologne. The golden lion on blue ground is the symbol of the duchy of Guelders, the black lion on golden ground the symbol of the duchy of Jülich. Towns and municipalities Towns Municipalities Kempen Nettetal Tönisvorst Viersen Willich Brüggen Grefrath Niederkrüchten Schwalmtal External links [Official website] (German) Cities and Districts in the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) Cities Aachen | Bergisch Gladbach | Bielefeld | Bochum | Bonn | Bottrop | Dortmund | Duisburg | Düsseldorf | Essen | Gelsenkirchen | Hagen | Hamm | Herne | Köln (Cologne) | Krefeld | Leverkusen | Mönchengladbach | Mülheim | Münster | Oberhausen | Remscheid | Solingen | Wuppertal Districts Aachen | Borken | Kleve (Cleves) | Coesfeld | Düren | Ennepe-Ruhr | Euskirchen | Gütersloh | Heinsberg | Herford | Hochsauerland | Höxter | Lippe | Märkischer Kreis | Mettmann | Minden-Lübbecke | Oberbergischer Kreis | Olpe | Paderborn | Recklinghausen | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | Rhein-Erft-Kreis | Rhein-Kreis Neuss Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | Siegen-Wittgenstein | Soest | Steinfurt | Unna | Viersen | Warendorf | Wesel   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: