Ourthe (department)

Ourthe (department)

Ourthe is the name of a département of the First French Empire in present day Belgium and Germany, at the time written as Ourte by French officials. It was named after the river Ourthe. Its territory corresponds more or less with that of the present day Belgian province Liège and a small adjacent region in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The département was formed when the Southern Netherlands and the left bank of the Rhine were occupied by the French around 1795. Before the occupation, its territory was divided among the bishopric of Liège, the abbacy of Stavelot-Malmedy, the duchies of Limburg, Luxembourg and Brabant, and the county of Namur.

Its capital was Liège. It was subdivided into the following arrondissements and cantons:

After Napoleon was defeated in 1814, most of the département became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands as the province of Liège. The easternmost part (Eupen, Malmedy, Sankt Vith, Kronenburg, Schleiden) became part of the Prussian Rhine Province, but part of this (Eupen, Malmedy, Sankt Vith) was taken back into Liège province after the first world war, under the Treaty of Versailles.

Coordinates: 50°27′N 3°57′E / 50.45°N 3.95°E / 50.45; 3.95


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