Département Lippe
The Department lip (French Département de la Lippe ) was on 27 April 1811. French County northeast of the Rhine , north of the lip and west of the Ems formed after by France in December 1810 to enforce the Continental System , the annexation of the Principality of Salm , the Duchy Arenberg-Meppen and parts of the Grand Duchy of Berg to the north of the Lippe . It existed until November 1813.
The department was named after the river of the same name on its southern border with the Grand Duchy of Berg, which was considerably reduced in size through the annexation of its northern parts of the country.
The department was formed from the following areas:
- Parts of the former Duchy of Kleve on the right bank of the Rhine , which had belonged to the Grand Duchy of Berg since 1806 ,
- the former lords of Anholt and Gemen as well as the former offices of Bocholt and Ahaus of the Principality of Münster , which had belonged to the Principality of Salm since 1803 ,
- the former office of Dülmen of the Duchy of Münster (from 1803 Grafschaft Dülmen ), which had belonged to the Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen since 1806 ,
- the former counties of Bentheim and Steinfurt and the former Horstmar office of the Duchy of Münster (from 1803 county Salm-Horstmar), which had belonged to the Grand Duchy of Berg since 1806 and 1808 ,
- the remaining areas of the former duchy of Munster north of the Lippe or a line from Haltern to Telgte , which as the Hereditary Duchy of Munster had meanwhile belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia and from 1808 to the Grand Duchy of Berg.
For a short transitional period, by French decree of December 26, 1810, these areas were the arrondissements of Münster and Rees, the department of Ober-Yssel ( Département Yssel-Supérieur ), the arrondissement of Steinfurt, the department of Yssel-estuary ( department Bouches-de-l'Yssel ), and the Arrondissement Neuenhaus, Departement West-Ems ( Département Ems-Occidental ) and assigned to the jurisdiction of the Imperial Court of Justice in Liège.
The capital was Münster. The new Département de la Lippe was divided into four arrondissements and several cantons:
- Arrondissement Münster (Munster) with the cantons of Dülmen , Haltern , Münster, Nottuln and St. Mauritz (Saint Maurice) ,
- Arrondissement Neuenhaus with the cantons Bentheim , Heede , Neuenhaus, Nordhorn and Wesuwe ,
- Arrondissement Rees with the cantons Bocholt , Borken , Emmerich , Rees, Ringenberg and Stadtlohn ,
- Arrondissement Steinfurt with the cantons Ahaus , Billerbeck , Coesfeld , Ochtrup , Rheine and Steinfurt.
The prefect was 1811-1813 Jean Charles Victorin de Lasteyrie du Saillant (since 1810 Comte du Saillant), entitled Chamberlain (Camerarius, fr. Chambellan), from 1813 the Comte Dusaillaux.
After the defeat of Napoleon I in 1814, the department was divided between the kingdoms of Hanover and Prussia .
literature
- Albrecht Friedrich Ludolph Lasius : The French Kayser State under the government of the Kayser Napoleon the Great in 1812 . A Geographical-Historical Manual, First Division. Johann Gottfried Kißling, Osnabrück 1813, p. 279 ( Google Books ).
- Peter Adolph Winkopp : The Rheinische Bund: a magazine historical-political-statistical-geographical content , Volume 20, 1811, p. 255 ( Google Books ).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Münster Intelligence Gazette of November 12, 1813 ( Münster State Library )