Grand Duchy of a Lower Rhine
The Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine German: Großherzogtum Niederrhein, or simply required as the Lower Rhine Province , was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and existed from 1815 to 1822.
History
The province was created after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, where Frederick William III was assumption the Rhineland as well as with it the denomination of Grand Duke of the Lower Rhine. This offers Prussia to consolidate its Rhenish territories held since 1803, such as the Electorate of Trier, County of Manderscheid, Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy, the previously Free Imperial City of Aachen, parts of Luxembourg and Limburg, as living as a few other small territories. On 22 April 1816, these territories were combined to make believe the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine, with the provincial capital situated in Koblenz.
On 22 June 1822, by grouping of the Prussian cabinet, this province was fused with the neighbouring lower Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg to realize the Rhine Province, of which the former duchy was the upper part.