Arrondissement of Bremen

The "Hanseatic Departments"

The Arrondissement of Bremen (also District of Bremen, French Arrondissement de Brême ) was one of four administrative units in the department of the mouths of the Weser . The arrondissement existed from January 1, 1811 to November 1813 and was part of the French Empire . The entire region had been occupied by France since November 1806 (this was also the case for the earlier Hanoverian parts of the arrondissement from July 1803 to autumn 1805), so the French period in Bremen also included the period from 1806 to 1813. The cantons Lilienthal and Ottersberg were from March 1, 1810 to December 31, 1810 part of the Bremervörde district in the northern department of the Kingdom of Westphalia , while the cantons of Achim, Syke, Thedinghausen and Verden belonged to the Verden district of the same department during this time.

After the Allied victory over Napoléon I in 1813/1814, the arrondissement became part of the Kingdom of Hanover and the Hanseatic City of Bremen (this applies to the three city cantons and the canton of Bremen-Land).

Today the area includes parts of Lower Saxony and the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

Administrative division

The Arrondissement of Bremen was divided into 11 cantons , which, according to official statistics, had a total of 104,299 inhabitants in 1811 and a total of 105,571 inhabitants in 1812. The head of administration was the Unterprefekt Armand von Armand von Salperwick ( French Armand de Salperwick ).

Bremen (1811: 37,725 inhabitants, 1812: 36,630) with three city cantons:

• Canton of Bremen-West (1812: 16,035 inhabitants)
• Canton of Bremen-East (1812: 12,250 inhabitants)
• Canton of Bremen-Neustadt (1812: 8,345 inhabitants)

• Canton of Bremen-Land (1811: 10,055 inhabitants, 1812: 9,544 inhabitants), 6 Mairien (mayor's offices )
• Canton Achim (1811: 7,242 inhabitants, 1812: 7,632 inhabitants), 3 Mairien
• Canton Lilienthal (1811: 7,124 inhabitants, 1812: 7,041 inhabitants), 3 Mairien
• Canton Ottersberg (1811: 8,940 inhabitants, 1812: 8,264 inhabitants), 4 Mairien
• Canton Rotenburg (Wümme) (1811: 6,470 inhabitants, 1812: 6,530 inhabitants), 3 Mairien
• Canton Syke (1811: 9,086 inhabitants, 1812: 11,554 inhabitants), 4 Mairien
• Canton Thedinghausen (1811: 9,724 inhabitants, 1812: 9,561 inhabitants), 4 Mairien
• Canton Verden (1811: 8,155 inhabitants, 1812: 8,815 inhabitants), 3 Mairien

See also

• French period in Bremen
• Northern Germany
• Napoleonic Post in Northern Germany

Individual evidence

1. ^ Yearbook for the Hanseatic departments, especially for the department of the Elbe estuaries; 1812 - German digital library. In: www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de. Pp. 247, 264–268 , accessed August 29, 2016 . 
2. ^ Statistical manual for the department of the Weser estuaries for the year 1813, Bremen 1813. Halem, Gerhard Anton von, pp. 114–121, 194 , accessed on August 29, 2016 . 

literature

• Helmut Stubbe da Luz : "French times" in Northern Germany (1803-1814). Napoleon's Hanseatic Departments. Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-384-1 .
• Albrecht Friedrich Ludolph Lasius : The French Kayser State under the government of the Kayser Napoleon the Great in 1812 . A historical manual, first section, by Johann Gottfried Kißling, Osnabrück 1813, page 90
• Herbert Black Forest : History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Volume II, Die Franzosenzeit , pp. 13 to 36, Edition Temmen , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 .