Hüls is the most northerly district of

Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia Krefeld ( , ; li, Krieëvel ), also spelled Crefeld until 1925 (though the spelling was still being used in British papers throughout the Second World War), is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, i ...

, Germany. Formerly an independent

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

, Hüls has been part of the city of Krefeld since 1975. It was the site of

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and

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manufacturing. Including the small district of Hülserberg, it covers and has 16,378 inhabitants (2019).

History

Stone Age and Roman Time A few

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artifacts from the

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(5500 - 2000 BC) are proof of human activity on the territory of what is now Hüls. A few graves from the

Iron Age The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostly appl ...

have been discovered near what is now Botzweg.

References

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