Arrondissement de Simmern

The Arrondissement de Simmern (German: Arrondissement Simmern , also district of Simmern ) was one of three administrative units in the Rhine-Moselle department . The district was in the years 1798 to 1814 of the French Republic (1798-1804) and the French Empire (1804-1814).

Sub-prefect (French sous-préfet ) was Ludwig Johann Christoph von Closen, knight of the Legion of Honor .

As a result of the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna , the area came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 , became part of the Koblenz administrative district in 1816 and became part of the Rhine Province in 1822 . The area has belonged to Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

Administrative division

The arrondissement was divided into ten cantons , 33 mairies and 246 municipalities , which in 1812 had a total of 88,405 inhabitants.

Mairie Bacharach with four parishes and 3,338 inhabitants; Mayor: Philippe-George Kellermann (1808, 1812), Frédéric Hildebrandt (1813)
Mairie Niederheimbach with three parishes and 1,714 inhabitants; Mayor: Fischer (1808), vacant (1812), Nicolas May (1813)
Mairie Oberwesel with a municipality and 2,247 inhabitants; Mayor: Balbiano (1808), Chardon (1812), Jean-Phippe Görtz (1813)
Mairie Wiebelsheim with six parishes and 1,584 inhabitants; Mayor: Jean-Pierre Hartel

Mairie Gödenroth with 16 communities and 3,443 inhabitants; Mayor: Frédéric-David Storck
Mairie Kastellaun ( Castellaun ) with 14 parishes and 3,601 inhabitants; Mayor: Pierre-Joseph Hagemann

Mairie Dill with seven parishes and 1,368 inhabitants; Mayor: François-Antonine Sauer
Mairie Gemünden with nine parishes and 1,997 inhabitants; Mayor: HJ Koch (1808, 1812), Philippe-George Kellermann (1813); one of the ten municipalities belongs to the canton of Kirn
Mairie Kirchberg with five parishes and 1,711 inhabitants; Mayor: Karl F. Pfender (1808, 1812), Pierre Koch (1813)
Mairie Niederkostenz ( Niedercostenz ) with eight municipalities and 1,796 inhabitants; Mayor: Werner Josef Jung (1808), Jean-Pierre Mettetal
Mairie Sohren with ten parishes and 2,973 inhabitants; Mayor: Kaiserswerth (1808, 1812), George Mohr (1813)

Mairie Kirn with twelve parishes and 3,362 inhabitants; Mayor: Aloyse Cadenbach
The canton of Kirn also includes five municipalities that were otherwise assigned to the Mairie Monzingen and one municipality from the Mairie Gemünden

Mairie Hüffelsheim with six parishes and 2,262 inhabitants; Mayor: Baum (1808), Jaques Bettinger (1813)
Mairie Kreuznach ( Creuznach ) with a municipality and 5,975 inhabitants; Mayor: KJ Burret
Mairie Langenlonsheim with five parishes and 3,327 inhabitants; Mayor: George Kohlmann
Mairie Mandel with six parishes and 2,122 inhabitants; Mayor: Charles-Frédéric Minola

Mairie Sankt Goar with nine parishes and 3,194 inhabitants; Mayor: Louis-Joseph Reis
Mairie Pfalzfeld with 13 communities and 2,046 inhabitants; Mayor: Jakob Leopold Denys (1808, 1812), Werner Josef Jung (1813)

Mairie Argenthal with three parishes and 1,189 inhabitants; Mayor: Friedrich Neuer (1808), Charles Ernest (1813)
Mairie Laubach with eight parishes and 1,991 inhabitants; Mayor: Pierre Weckmann
Mairie Ohlweiler with six parishes and 1,770 inhabitants; Mayor: Johann Anton Dicht (1808, 1812), Jean-Baptiste Kaiserswerth
Mairie Rheinböllen ( Rheinbellen ) with nine communities and 1,967 inhabitants; Mayor: Jaques Mades
Mairie Simmern with 13 parishes and 4,072 inhabitants; Mayor: Frédéric Chardon (1808),
Mairie Unzenberg with eight parishes and 1,745 inhabitants; Mayor: Mathieu-Ignace Weygold

Mairie Monzingen with twelve parishes and 3,589 inhabitants; Mayor: Adam W. Karsch (1808, 1812), Charles-Théodore Brunn (1812); five of the twelve municipalities belong to the canton of Kirn
Mairie Sobernheim with seven parishes and 4,369 inhabitants; Mayor: Förtig (1808), Adam J. Thesmar (1812, 1813)
Mairie Winterburg with nine parishes and 2,325 inhabitants; Mayor: Schmitt (1808), George-André Jäger (1811, 1813)

Mairie Stromberg with ten parishes and 3,292 inhabitants; Mayor: Hecht (1808, 1812), Jean-Léopold Denys (1813)
Mairie Waldalgesheim with seven parishes and 2,683 inhabitants; Mayor: Jaques Rittig
Mairie Wallhausen ( Walhausen ) with eight communities and 2,484 inhabitants; Mayor: Karl Theodor Brünn (1808, 1812), François-Antonine Albertino (1813)
Mairie Windesheim with five parishes and 2,386 inhabitants; Mayor: Joseph Deihl

Mairie Enkirch with three parishes and 2,422 inhabitants; Mayor: Pierre-Henri Schetter
Mairie Trarbach with nine parishes and 4,071 inhabitants; Mayor: Charles-Frédéric Pfender

^ Charles François Philibert Masson: Annuaire statistique du Département de Rhin-et-Moselle , 1808, p. 142 ff. ( Dilibri.de )
↑ Handbook for the Peasants of the Rhine-Moselle Department, year 1808 , Koblenz, Prefecture-Buchdruckerey, p. 152 ff. ( Dilibri.de )
↑ Handbook for the residents of the Rhine-Mosel department, year 1812 , Koblenz, Pauli , 1812, p. 67 ff. ( Dilibri.de )