Großherzogtum Niederrhein Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine Province of Prussia ↓ 1815 – 1822 → The Lower Rhine Province (red), within the Kingdom of Prussia (blue), within the German Confederation (member states in tan) Capital Koblenz 50°22′N 7°36′E / 50.367°N 7.6°E / 50.367; 7.6Coordinates: 50°22′N 7°36′E / 50.367°N 7.6°E / 50.367; 7.6 History  - Established 1815  - Disestablished 1822 Population  - 1816 951,998   - 1822 1,042,724  Political Subdivisions Aachen Koblenz Trier Preceded by Succeeded by Electorate of Trier Manderscheid Malmedy Free City of Aachen Palatinate Luxembourg Duchy of Limburg Rhine Province Today part of North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Hesse Saarland Eupen-Malmedy

The Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine (German: Großherzogtum Niederrhein), or simply known as the Lower Rhine Province (German: Provinz Niederrhein) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and existed from 1815 to 1822.

The province was created after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 where Frederick William III was given the Rhineland and with it the title of Grand Duke of the Lower Rhine. This allowed Prussia to consolidate its Rhenish territories held since 1803, such as the Electorate of Trier, Manderscheid, Malmedy, the previously Free Imperial City of Aachen, most of the Palatinate region, parts of Luxembourg and Limburg, as well as a few other small territories. On 22 April 1816, these territories were combined to form the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine, with the provincial capital situated in Koblenz.

On 22 June 1822, by order of the Prussian cabinet, this province was fused with the neighbouring Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg to form the Rhine Province.

v • d • e Territories and provinces of Prussia (1525–1947) Before 1701 Duchy of Prussia · Margraviate of Brandenburg · Cleves / Mark / Ravensberg (1614) · Farther Pomerania / Minden / Halberstadt (1648) · Lauenburg–Bütow / Draheim (1657) · Magdeburg (1680) · Colonies (Groß Friedrichsburg · Arguin · Crab Island · Tertholen) After 1701 Neuchâtel (1707) · Guelders (1713) · Minden-Ravensberg (1719) · Western Pomerania (1720, 1815) · Silesia / Glatz (1742) · East Frisia (1744) · East / West Prussia (1772-73) · South Prussia (1793) · New East Prussia / New Silesia (1795) Post-Congress of Vienna (1814–15) Brandenburg · Pomerania · Grand Duchy of Posen1 · Saxony · Silesia · Westphalia · Rhine Province2 (1822) · Province of Prussia (1824–78) · Hohenzollern (1850) · Schleswig-Holstein / Hanover / Hesse-Nassau (1866–68) Territorial reforms after 1918 Lower / Upper Silesia (1919) · Greater Berlin (1920) · Posen-West Prussia (1922) · Halle-Merseburg / Magdeburg / Kurhessen / Nassau (1944) 1 Became the Province of Posen in 1848.   2 From the Lower Rhine and Jülich-Cleves-Berg.

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