Arrondissement of Dillenburg

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The Arrondissement Dillenburg ( District Dillenburg ) was an administrative unit under Napoleon Bonaparte , who, according to a decree of November 14, 1808 , formed the Département Sieg in the Grand Duchy of Berg with the Arrondissement Siegen . The arrondissement had essentially emerged from the occupied ancestral lands of the House of Orange-Nassau after they had not joined the Rhine Confederation .

The Arrondissement of Dillenburg was divided into seven cantons :

  1. Canton Dillenburg with the Mairien: Dillenburg, Eibach, Haiger and Ebersbach
  2. Canton Herborn with the Mairien: Herborn, Hörbach, Bicken and Eisemroth
  3. Canton Driedorf with the Mairien: Driedorf, Mengerskirchen and Elsoff
  4. Canton Rennerod with the Mairien: Rennerod, Marienberg, Höhn and Emmerichenhain
  5. Canton Hadamar with the Mairien: Hadamar, Offheim, Zeuzheim, Lahr and Frickhofen
  6. Canton Westerburg with the Mairien: Westerburg and Gemünden
  7. Canton Runkel with the Mairien: Schupbach and Schadeck.

During an administrative reform on November 17, 1811, the number of cantons was reduced. Runkel was defeated at Hadamar and Westerburg at Renneroth.

After Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat in the Battle of Leipzig , the Oran-Nassau sovereignty was restored in 1813 and the old division of office was reintroduced. However, the House of Orange-Nassau exchanged its property in the Westerwald at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 with the Kingdom of Prussia for Luxembourg . The Kingdom of Prussia handed over the territory to the Duchy of Nassau on the same day .

Sub-prefects

literature

  • Karl Schröder: Between the French Revolution and Prussia's Gloria , Heimatverein Eitorf 1989
  • AJ Weidenbach: Nassau Territories; In: Annals of the Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research, Volume 10, 1870, pages 309-310
  • Hellmuth Gensicke : State history of the Westerwald . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-922244-80-7 , p. 487 .