EMMERICH (the ancient Embrica), a town of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, on the right bank of the Rhine and the railway from Cologne to Amsterdam, 5m. N.E. of Cleves. Pop. (1933) 14,602. Emmerich, formerly called Embrika and Emrik, originally a Roman colony, is mentioned in records in the 7th century. St. Willibrord founded a monastery and church here. In I233 the place came into the possession of the dukes of Gelder land and received the status of a town in 1247. In 1371 it fell to the duchy of Cleves, and passed with it in 1609 to Brandenburg. The town joined the Hanseatic League in 1407. It passed into the possession of Prussia in 1815.
It has some shipping trade, and manufactories of tobacco and cigars, chocolate, margarine, oil and sugar. There are also iron foundries and machine factories. The old minster church dates from the middle of the iith century.