Hamminkeln

The town of Hamminkeln is located on the lower Rhine inside the northwest of the nation of North Rhine Westphalia and is a Mittlere district metropolis of the district Wesel in the district of Dusseldorf. It is the youngest and with 164.54 km ² also the largest city inside the district of Wesel. It is a member of the Euregio Rhein Waal and lies in the regions of obligation of the Landschaftsverband Rhineland and the Regionalverband Ruhr.

The Hamminkelner Issel became already a natural border inside the time of the historic Romans. The Romans constructed right here extra ramparts, which had been congruent with the Klever Landwehr. At the time of the Migration Period around 350, the Issel fashioned the border between the Christian Franks inside the west and the Saxons in the east. So the river changed into the border between the denominations. In the 12 months 779 Charlemagne crossed inside the region of modern "Roman Rest", positioned between the hamlets of Dingden and Loikum in Hamminkel, together with his navy the Isseln lowland there.