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County (Duchy) of Berg | |||||||||
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1101–1815 | |||||||||
Left: Arms of Bergins (from around 1225), who ruled the Duchy of Berg last Right: Coat of arms of the Duke of Berg | |||||||||
![]() Map of the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle around 1560, Duchy of Berg highlighted in red | |||||||||
Status | Duchy | ||||||||
Capital |
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Common languages | German | ||||||||
Government | Absolute monarchy | ||||||||
Duke of Berg | |||||||||
• 1360–1380 | Wilhelm II (first duke) | ||||||||
• 1809-1813 | Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (Grand Duke) | ||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Emergence from Lotharingia | 1101 | ||||||||
• Split with County of Mark | 1160 | ||||||||
• United with County of Jülich | 1348 | ||||||||
• United with County of Mark and Duchy of Cleves | 1521 | ||||||||
• United with Palatinate-Neuburg and the Electorate of the Palatinate | 1609 and 1690 | ||||||||
• Awarded to Prussia | 9 June 1815 | ||||||||
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Berg was a state—originally a county, later a duchy—in the Rhineland of Germany. Its capital was Düsseldorf. It existed as a distinct political entity from the early 12th to the 19th centuries.
The name of the county lives on in the modern geographic term Bergisches Land, often misunderstood as bergiges Land (hilly country).