Rhin-et-Moselle

Rhin-et-Moselle
Department of First French Empire
1797–1814
Map of the Rhin-et-Moselle department
Capital	Koblenz
Area
• 1812 [1]	5,884.19 km2 (2,271.90 sq mi)
Population
• 1812 [1]	269,700
History
• Established	1797
• Disestablished	1814
Political subdivisions	Koblenz Bonn Simmern
Preceded by Succeeded by Electorate of Cologne Electorate of Trier County Palatine of the Rhine Großherzogtum Niederrhein
Today part of	North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhin-et-Moselle (French: [ʁɛ̃ e mɔzɛl]; German: Rhein-und-Mosel) was a department of the First French Republic and First French Empire in present-day Germany. It was named after the rivers Rhine and Moselle. It was formed in 1797, when the left bank of the Rhine was annexed by France. Until the French occupation, its territory was divided between the Archbishopric of Cologne, the Archbishopric of Trier, and the Electorate of the Palatinate. Its territory is now part of the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia. Its capital was Koblenz.

After Napoleon was defeated in 1814, the department became part of Prussia.