Viersen (district)

Viersen is a Kreis (district) in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
History.
In 1816, the new Prussian government created the district of "Kempen". In 1929 the district was made a lot bigger and renamed "Kempen-Krefeld".
In 1975 the district again changed its borders and was renamed to "Viersen" even though Kempen remained the capital. Viersen city replace Kempen as the capital in 1984.
Since 1983 the district has had been twinned with Cambridgeshire in England.