Département Lippe

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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:

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:

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

  1. Münster Intelligence Gazette of November 12, 1813 ( Münster State Library )