Department of the Bouches-du-Weser

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The Département des Bouches-du-Weser (dt. Departement Weser Estuary ) was the department No. 129 of the French Empire and consisted of German territories. It was set up with effect from January 1, 1811 as one of the Hanseatic departments after the annexation of Holland and the German North Sea coast by France .

location

The Weser estuary department was formed from the former Free Imperial City of Bremen , the County of Delmenhorst , parts of the Duchy of Bremen, the Duchy of Oldenburg , the Principality of Lüneburg , the Hoya and the Duchy of Verden .

The department comprised the area in a line from the border of the Ober-Ems department to the border of the East-Ems department . From the Jadebusen to Cuxhaven the North Sea forms the border, from there to the borders of Hadeln to Bederkesa (in Bremen), from there to the Oste river above Bremervörde , then follows the river until it joins the floodplain to the estuary along an arm of the Wümme on Hillern above Soltau and then the line as it was determined by the French Senate resolution to Schluesselburg.

history

The capital of the department was Bremen . It had 329,862 inhabitants on about 173 square miles (= 9,800 km²). 1,118,965 inhabitants lived in the three Hanseatic departments. The Weser estuary department was divided into the following arrondissements and cantons:

Arrondissement Residents Cantons
Bremen (Brême) 104,299 Achim , Bremen with the three city cantons West, East and Neustadt as well as the state canton of Bremen (with Arsten, Woltmershausen, Walle, Hastedt, Borgfeld and Oberneuland), Lilienthal , Ottersberg (both in the Duchy of Bremen), Rotenburg (in the Duchy of Verden), Syke (in the county of Hoya), Thedinghausen (formerly Brunswick) and Verden (belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1810 , department of the Elbe and Weser estuaries ).
Oldenburg 92,602 Berne , Burhave , Delmenhorst , Elsfleth , Hatten , Oldenburg , Ovelgönne (the Butjadinger Land), Rastede , Varel and Westerstede .
Nienburg 50,327 Bassum , Altbruchhausen , Hoya , Liebenau , Nienburg , Rethem (Principality of Lüneburg), Stolzenau , Sulingen and Walsrode (Principality of Lüneburg).
Bremerlehe 82,634 Beverstedt , Bremerlehe (in the Duchy of Bremen), Dorum (in the Land of Wursten), Hagen , Osterholz and Vegesack (the three in the Duchy of Bremen).

Until October 17, 1813, the prefect of the department was Philipp Karl Graf von Arberg , former Chamberlain of Napoleon and Knight of the Legion of Honor , who came from an Austrian / Belgian noble family. Arberg resided in Eelkingschen Haus am Domshof and then in Eschenhof on Domsheide . He lived in the Landruhe estate in Horn . After the escape of Arbergs, the previous sub-prefect Johann Pavenstedt (from 1816 Senator in Bremen) took over the official duties until the department was dissolved.

After the Allies' victory over Napoléon I in 1813, the department became part of the current Kingdom of Hanover , the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , the Duchy of Braunschweig (Thedinghausen Office) and the Hanseatic City of Bremen along the lines of power that were valid in 1810 .

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

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg von Viebahn: Statistics of the United Customs and Northern Germany , 1858, p. 74.