Yssel-Supérieur department
The Département de l'Yssel-Supérieur ( German department of the Upper IJssel , Dutch Departement van Boven-the IJssel ) was a 1811 to 1813 the French state belonging department . It was named after the river IJssel .
history
Before 1790 the area of the department belonged to the historical province of Gelderland of the Republic of the United Netherlands . In connection with the Revolution in France (1789) and the First Revolutionary War (1792–1797), the Batavian Republic was established in the northern Netherlands in 1795 . In 1806 this became part of the Kingdom of Holland , which was ruled by Napoleon's brother Louis Bonaparte . After Louis abdicated in July 1810 , the territory was incorporated into the French Empire .
On January 1, 1811, the previous Dutch departments were reorganized and brought into line with the French administrative structure. The administrative area of the department of the upper IJssel covered most of the previous Dutch department of Geldern .
Temporarily, from January 1 to April 27, 1811, the arrondissements of Rees and Münster were also part of the department of the upper IJssel. They had previously belonged to the Grand Duchy of Berg and then moved to the new department of the Lippe , which was part of the Hanseatic departments .
According to the French administrative structure, the department was subdivided into arrondissements , cantons and communes. The cantons were also district courts of justice .
After Napoleon's defeat in the Battle of Leipzig (October 1813), the country came into the possession of William of Orange-Nassau in December 1813 . Based on the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (June 1815), the area was assigned to the new Kingdom of the Netherlands . In August 1815 this was divided into provinces, from the department of the upper IJssel the today's province Gelderland emerged . The temporarily belonging arrondissements Rees and Münster went to Prussia and are now part of North Rhine-Westphalia .
structure
The main town ( chef-lieu ) of the department or seat of the prefecture was the city of Arnhem . It was divided into three arrondissements and 32 cantons :
| Arrondissement | Main towns in the cantons, seat of the courts of justice |
|---|---|
| Arnhem ( Arnhem ) | Apeldoorn , Arnheim , Barneveld , Brummen , Ede , Elburg , Harderwijk , Hattem , Nijkerk , Twello , Vaassen , Velp , Wageningen , Zevenaar |
| Tiel | Bemmel , Elst , Geldermalsen , Tiel |
| Zutphen | Aalten , Borculo , Doesburg , Doetinchem , Eibergen , Gendringen , Groenlo , 's-Heerenberg , Lochem , Terborg , Vorden , Warnsveld , Winterswijk , Zutphen |
| From January to April 1811: | |
| Rees | Bocholt , Borken , Emmerich , Rees , Ringenberg , Stadtlohn |
| Muenster | Dülmen , Haltern , Münster , Sankt Mauritz , Telgte |
The department had an area of 5611 square kilometers and, according to statistics from 1812, a total of 192,700 inhabitants.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Albrecht Friedrich Ludolph Lasius : The French Kayser State under the government of the Kayser Napoleon the Great in 1812 . A Geographical-Historical Manual, First Department, Osnabrück: Johann Gottfried Kißling, 1813, p. 518 ( Google Books )
- ^ Friedrich Justin Bertuch : General geographical ephemeris , Volume 33, Leipzig: Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1810, p. 205 ( Google Books )
- ^ Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus : Germany for a Hundred Years , Second Section, Third Volume, Leipzig: Voigt & Günther, 1862, p. 29 ( Google Books )
- ↑ a b Almanach Impérial 1812 , Paris, p. 482 ( Bibliothèque nationale de France )
Bouches-de-l'Escaut (mouth of the Scheldt) | Bouches-de-l'Yssel (IJssel estuaries) | Bouches-de-la-Meuse ( Meuse Estuaries) | Bouches-du-Rhin (mouths of the Rhine) | Ems-Occidental (West-Ems) | Ems-Oriental (East-Ems) | Frize (Friesland) | Yssel-Supérieur (Ober-IJssel) | Zuyderzée (Zuiderzee)