Ems-Oriental department

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The Ems-Oriental Department ( German  department of the East-Ems ; Dutch Departement van de Ooster-Eems ) was a 1811-1813 the French state belonging department . It included parts of East Frisia and the Jeverland in what is now Lower Saxony .

history

After the battle of Jena and Auerstedt (1806) and the ensuing Peace of Tilsit (1807), East Friesland and Jeverland fell to the Kingdom of Holland as the Department of East Friesland and thus came under French control. In 1810, the region finally became part of the French Empire as the Ems-Orientale (Osterems) department. In 1812 the system was supposed to be converted to the French system of measures and weights, but this no longer happened. After Napoléon's defeat in 1814, the old borders were restored, East Friesland finally became part of the Kingdom of Hanover , and Jeverland to Oldenburg .

area

The Ems-Oriental department essentially consisted of the previously Prussian principality of East Frisia and parts of the Jever rule . The Russian Tsar Alexander I had ceded the rule of Jever to the Kingdom of Holland on July 7, 1807 in the Peace of Tilsit . The East Frisian area west of the Ems ( Rheiderland ) was spun off from East Frisia due to old Dutch claims and added to the Dutch department Ems-Occidental with the main town of Groningen .

structure

The main town ( chef-lieu ) of the department or seat of the prefecture was the city of Aurich . It was divided into three arrondissements , 14 cantons and 108 communes:

Arrondissement Main towns in the cantons, seat of the courts of justice
Aurich Aurich , Berum , Norden , Timmel
Emden Emden , Leer , Oldersum , Pewsum , Stickhausen
Jever Esens , Hooksiel , Jever , Rüstringen , Wittmund

In 1812 the department had a total of 128,200 inhabitants.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albrecht Friedrich Ludolph Lasius : The French Kayser State under the government of the Kayser Napoleon the Great in 1812. A geographic-historical manual. First division. Johann Gottfried Kißling, Osnabrück 1813, p. 163 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b Almanach Impérial 1812. Paris, p. 398 ( online )