The Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences (until 2001 Fachhochschule Niederrhein ) was founded on 1 August 1971 by the merger of eight "higher technical schools", three engineering schools and a school of works in the Krefeld-Mönchengladbach area.
The "State Engineering School for Textiles" in Krefeld, which had the longest tradition of its predecessors, also went into it