Frankfurt Department
The Frankfurt department was an administrative unit in the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt that existed from 1811 to 1813 . It essentially consisted of the former imperial cities of Frankfurt am Main and Wetzlar . After the end of the Grand Duchy, the Free City of Frankfurt became a sovereign member state of the German Confederation , while the sub-prefecture of Wetzlar was added to the Kingdom of Prussia .
history
With the formation of the Rhine Confederation on August 1, 1806 and the subsequent dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire , the imperial city of Frankfurt am Main was mediatized and on September 9, 1806, its entire territory was subordinated to the Prince Primate of the Rhine Confederation, Karl Theodor von Dalberg . Expanded to include the former Graeflich Ingelheim office of Ober-Erlenbach and the Solms-Rödelheim half of Niederursel , Frankfurt formed a separate area that was not linked to the other territories of the principality. Since the principality did not have a uniform constitution, the old imperial city constitution initially remained in force, unless it was changed by decrees and provisions of the new sovereign. The executive was headed by a general commissioner under the direction of Jakob Guiollett . Dalberg appointed Friedrich Maximilian von Günderrode to the city school . The Higher Appeal Court in Aschaffenburg took the place of the Reich Chamber Court .
With the founding of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt on February 19, 1810, a state that was territorially connected except for the County of Wetzlar was created , which with the highest organizational patent for the Constitution of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt had its own constitution based on the French model and with the Assembly of Estates of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt its own parliament received. With effect from January 1, 1811, Frankfurt formed one of four departments in the Grand Duchy. Günderrode took over the newly created office of prefect .
After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , the Grand Duchy dissolved; on November 6, 1813, a civil administrative council headed by Freiherr vom Stein took over the government in Frankfurt. As a result of the Congress of Vienna , the sovereignty of the Free City of Frankfurt was restored, while Wetzlar fell to the Kingdom of Prussia and the Rhine Province was added.
structure
The Frankfurt department was divided into three mairies :
- the city of Frankfurt ,
- the Landdistriktsmairie Frankfurt with the communities Bornheim , Oberrad , Niederrad , Hausen , Niederursel , Bonames , Niedererlenbach , Dortelweil and Obererlenbach.
- the sub-prefecture of Wetzlar
According to the state calendar in 1812 , the department had a total of 52,576 out of 302,002 inhabitants of the Grand Duchy. 40,485 of these were in the city of Frankfurt, 7813 in the Landdistriktsmairie Frankfurt and 4,248 in the sub-prefecture of Wetzlar.
Department Council
Members of the twelve-member department council were:
- Johann Carl Schnerr
- Johann Gottfried Clausius
- Ludwig Jassoy
- Johann Georg Sarasin
- Johann Peter von Leonardi
- Noe Dufay
- Bernhard Brentano
- Johann Georg Grambs
- Johann Heinrich Mühlhens
- Johann Baptist Schweitzer
- Johann Jacob Steitz
- Johann Friedrich Wüstefeld
The Department Council met annually for 14-day deliberations on the department's budget.
literature
- Peter Adolph Winkopp : Attempt of a topographical-statistical description of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , Frankfurt am Main 1812, digitized
- Rainer Koch : Basics of bourgeois rule: Constitutional and socio-historical studies on civil society in Frankfurt a. M. (1612-1866). ISBN 978-3515038584 , pp. 412-421.
- State calendar of the Grand Ducal City and the Department of Frankfurt: 1812, p. 87 ff. Digitized in the Google book search
