Bouches-du-Rhin department

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The department of Bouches-du-Rhin ( German  department of the Rhine mouths ; Dutch Departement van de moons van de Rijn ) was a 1810 to 1813 the French state belonging department . It was named after the mouth of the Rhine , but only included part of it.

history

Before 1790 the area of ​​the department belonged to the Republic of the United Netherlands , it comprised the part of the historical province Gelderland south of the Waal and the eastern half of Noord-Brabant . 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 .

Louis came on 16 March 1810 in a closed Paris Agreement "North Brabant, Zeeland with the inclusion of the island of Schouwen and funds on the left side of the Waal" to France from, so that now the border between Holland and France by the thalweg of the Waal from Schenkenschanz was formed up to the sea. With a Senate resolution of April 24, 1810, the new department of the Rhine estuaries was formed from the area, the western part was added to the department of the two Nethes .

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 . Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (June 1815), the area can become the new Kingdom of the Netherlands . In August 1815 this was divided into provinces, the present-day province of Noord-Brabant emerged from the department of the mouths of the Rhine, part of which went to the province of Gelderland .

structure

The main town ( chef-lieu ) of the department or seat of the prefecture was the city of 's-Hertogenbosch (also Den Bosch ; French Bois-le-Duc ). It was divided into three arrondissements and 21 cantons :

Arrondissement Main towns in the cantons, seat of the courts of justice
Den Bosch ( Bois-le-Duc ) 's-Hertogenbosch , Bommel , Boxtel , Heusden , Oisterwijk , Oss , Tilburg , Waalwijk ,
Eindhoven Asten , Eindhoven , Gemert , Helmond , Hilvarenbeek , Oirschot , Sint-Oedenrode
Nijmegen ( Nimègue ) Boxmeer , Druten , Grave , Nijmegen , Ravenstein , Wijchen

The department had an area of ​​4,814 square kilometers and in 1813 a total of 257,580 inhabitants.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Sporschill: History of the Arising: Of the Growth and the Greatness of the Austrian Monarchy , Volume 8, Leipzig: Renger'sche Buchhandlung, 1847, S. 114 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Franz Georg Joseph von Lassaulx : Annals of Napoleon's Legislation , Volume 4, Koblenz: Pauli, 1810, p. 18 ( Google Books )
  3. ^ 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. 81 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ a b Almanach Impérial 1813 , Paris, p. 379 ( Bibliothèque nationale de France )