Moers

Moers is a German metropolis on the western bank of the Rhine. Moers belongs to the district of Wesel. Known earliest from 1186, the county of Moers turned into an impartial principality in the Holy Roman Empire. During the Eighty Years' War it changed into alternately captured by way of Spanish and Dutch troops, because it bordered the Upper Quarter of Guelders. During the conflict it ultimately fell to Maurice of Orange. As it changed into separated from the Dutch Republic by using Spanish Upper Guelders it did now not become an essential part of the Republic, though Dutch troops were stationed there.

After the dying of William III of Orange in 1702, Moers changed into inherited by the king of Prussia. All Dutch troops and civil servants were expelled. In 1795 it turned into annexed by means of France. At the Congress of Vienna, in 1815 it become again to Prussia and in 1871 it became a part of the German Empire. A target of the Oil Campaign of World War II, the Steinkohlenbergwerke Rheinpreussen synthetic oil plant in Moers, changed into partly dismantled put up-battle.