Canton of Alzey

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The canton Alzey (French: Canton de Alzey ) was one of ten administrative units into which the Arrondissement of Mainz in the Donnersberg department was divided. The Canton was in the years 1798 to 1814 of the French Republic (1798-1804) and the Napoleonic Empire (1804-1814).

After the Rheinhessen region became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1816 , the cantons were initially retained and were part of the administrative structure until 1835.

The administrative area lay entirely in what is now the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from the years 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Alzey, which were administratively assigned to Mairies (place names in the spelling at that time); the population figures (column "EW 1815") are taken from statistics from 1815; the column “belonged before 1792” indicates the sovereign belonging before the French takeover.

local community Mairie EW 1815 belonging to before 1792 Remarks
Albig Albig 722 Electoral Palatinate
Alzey Alzey 3,193 Electoral Palatinate
Bechenheim Niederwiesen 311 Electoral Palatinate
Bermersheim Albig 276 Eibingen Monastery today the municipality of Bermersheim vor der Höhe
Bornheim Bornheim 289 Rheingraf von Salm
Dautenheim Framersheim 245 Electoral Palatinate since 1972 district of Alzey
Dintesheim Flomborn 127 Electoral Palatinate
Erbesbüdeheim Erbesbüdeheim 672 Electoral Palatinate today the municipality of Erbes-Büdesheim
Esselborn Chain home 255 Electoral Palatinate
Flomborn Flomborn 411 Electoral Palatinate
Flonheim Flonheim 1,242 Rheingraf von Salm
Framersheim Framersheim 938 Count of Falkenstein
Freimersheim Freimersheim 460 Electoral Palatinate
Heimersheim Heimersheim 569 Electoral Palatinate since 1972 district of Alzey
Chain home Chain home 308 Electoral Palatinate
Koengernheim Odernheim 180 Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim since 1969 district of Gau-Odernheim ( Gau-Köngernheim )
Lonsheim Bornheim 306 Electoral Palatinate
Naked Wendelsheim 341 Baron von Hunolstein
Niederwiesen Niederwiesen 467 Baron von Hunolstein today the municipality of Nieder-Wiesen
Odernheim Odernheim 1,278 Electoral Palatinate since 1896 Gau-Odernheim
Offenheim Offenheim 489 Electoral Palatinate
Uffhofen Flonheim 342 Rheingraf von Salm since 1969 district of Flonheim
Wahlheim Freimersheim 276 Electoral Palatinate
Weinheim Weinheim 709 Electoral Palatinate since 1972 district of Alzey
Wendelsheim Wendelsheim 661 Count of Grumbach

history

Before the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War (1794), the administrative district of the canton of Alzey, established in 1798, belonged mainly to the Electoral Palatinate , several places belonged to the Rhine Count von Salm and individual villages belonged to various smaller rulers.

The administration of the Left Bank of the Rhine was reorganized by the French directorate in 1798 based on the French model. a. a division into cantons has been adopted. The cantons were also district courts of justice , here the Alzey District Court . The canton of Alzey was part of the Mainz arrondissement in the Donnersberg department .

After the Allies regained possession of the Left Bank of the Rhine in January 1814, the Donnersberg department and thus also the canton of Alzey became part of the provisional Central Rhine General Government in February 1814 . After the Peace of Paris in May 1814, this Generalgouvernement was divided up in June 1814, the cantons to the right of the Moselle were assigned to the newly formed Joint State Administration Commission , which was under the administration of Austria and Bavaria . During the Austrian-Bavarian administration, the canton of Alzey belonged to the arrondissement or the district of Alzey.

At the Congress of Vienna (1815), the Grand Duke of Hesse was granted a state area in the former Donnersberg department with 140,000 souls (Article 47 of the main treaty). In a state treaty concluded with Austria and Prussia on June 30, 1816 , the details of the territory of the subsequent province of Rheinhessen in the Grand Duchy of Hesse , to which the canton Alzey also belonged, were made.

Rhenish Hessian canton of Alzey

The administrative division of the province of Rheinhessen was initially retained by the cantons from the French administrative structure. In 1834 the canton Alzey still had the same territorial status as in the French period.

On February 5, 1835, the eleven cantons were replaced by four districts . From the canton of Alzey and the Canton Wörrstadt was Kreis Alzey formed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Complete collection of the ordinances and resolutions of the citizen government commissioner and the central administrations of the four new departments on the left bank of the Rhine , Volume 1, Issue 2, Wirth, 1798, pp. 62, 67 ( Google Books )
  2. ^ Statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 277 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ a b Statistical yearbook for the German states between the Rhine, the Moselle and the French border: on the year 1815 , Kupferberg, 1815, p. 123 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ a b Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbook of Rhenish Particular Law , Volume 3, Sauerländer, 1832, p. 55 ( Google Books )
  5. ↑ a b Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , volumes 1–5, 1862, p. 58 ff. ( Google Books )
  6. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff. ( dilibri.de )
  7. ↑ Main treaty of the Congress of European Powers, Princes and Free Cities assembled in Vienna of June 9, 1815, Article 97, page 96 ( uni-goettingen.de )
  8. ^ Wilhelm Hesse: Rheinhessen in its development from 1798 to the end of 1834, Kupferberg, 1835, p. 27 ( Google Books )
  9. ↑ Der Rheinbayer , Kranzbühler, 1835, p. 74 ( Google Books )