Jan von Werth, a celebrated general during the Thirty Years' War, was born near Büttgen in 1591.

Some time in 1642, a Hessian troop entered the city murdering the local preacher and destroying the vicarage.

The French redrew district boundaries in 1798 and assigned Kaarst to Kanton Neuss.

A relic of Napoleon I is the Nordkanal, a canal to connect the rivers Maas and Rhine.

She won the runoff election in September 2020 with 59.35 percent of the valid votes against Lars Christoph (CDU).