or KREFELD, a town of Prussia, capital of a circle of the same name, in the province of Düsseldorf, 10 miles N.W. of the town of that name. This town is one of the finest in Rhenish Prussia, being well and regularly built, while the surrounding fertile district is almost entirely laid out in gardens. It is the most important seat of the silk and velvet manufactures in the kingdom, affording employment to about 13,000 persons in the town and neighbourhood. Among its other manufactures are linen, cotton and woollen stuffs, earthenware, leather, spirits, tobacco, and soap. The manufactures to which Crefeld principally owes its present prosperity were introduced by religious refugees from the neighbouring duchy of Juliers, about the close of the 17th century. Pop. (1849) 36,134.