Delémont district
The district of Delsberg ( French District de Delémont ) was an administrative unit of the First French Republic . It existed in the area of today's cantons of Bern , Jura and Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland . The main town was Delsberg (Delémont) .
From March 23, 1793, the district was part of the Mont-Terrible department , when the French National Convention formally annexed the Raurak Republic, which had been founded four months earlier (this in turn had emerged from territories of the former duchy of Basel ). The district of Delémont comprised five cantons :
The constitution of the 5th fructidor of year III (April 22, 1795) no longer provided for districts as administrative units of a department , but only cantons and communes . The law of the 28th Pluviôse of the year VIII (February 17th, 1800) created the arrondissements as a new administrative level. The former district of Delsberg was expanded to include further former prince-bishop territories, which were formally annexed only in 1797 and 1798; this resulted in the arrondissement of Delsberg in the Haut-Rhin department .
literature
- Gustave Gautherot: Le département du Mont-Terrible: 1793-1800 . Librairie Honoré Champion, Paris 1908 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ^ André Bandelier: Mont Terrible. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ^ Gustave Gautherot: Le département du Mont-Terrible: 1793-1800. Pp. 283-285.
- ^ Constitution du 5 Fructidor An III. Conseil constitutionnel , accessed November 16, 2015 (French).
- ↑ Loi du 28e pluviose an VIII concernant la division du territoire français et l'administration. (PDF, 24 kB) Université de Picardie, accessed on November 15, 2015 (French).