Canton of Annweiler

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The canton Annweiler (French: Canton de Anweiler ) was one of eight administrative units into which the Arrondissement Zweibrücken (French: Arrondissement de Deux-Pont ) in the Donnersberg department (French: Département du Mont-Tonnerre ) was divided. The Canton was in the years 1798 to 1814 of the French Republic (1798-1804) and the Napoleonic Empire (1804-1814). The main town ( Chef-lieu ) was today's city of Annweiler am Trifels .

After the Palatinate became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 , the cantons were initially retained and were part of the administrative structure until 1852.

The administrative area was mainly in what is now the district of Südliche Weinstrasse, partly in the district of Südwestpfalz and in the area of ​​the independent city of Landau in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Annweiler, 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
Albersweiler Albersweiler 1,640 half of Zweibrücken and Löwenstein
Annweiler Annweiler 1,758 Pfalz-Zweibrücken today city of Annweiler am Trifels
Bellenborn and Reisdorf Birkenhördt 128 Electoral Palatinate today the municipality of Böllenborn and the district of Reisdorf
Bindersbach Annweiler 163 Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim since 1956 district of Annweiler am Trifels
Birkenhördt Birkenhördt 464 Electoral Palatinate
Birkweiler Siebeldingen 488 Electoral Palatinate
Blankenborn Birkenhördt 114 Electoral Palatinate since 1971 district of Bad Bergzabern
Darrstein Oberschlettenbach 97 Prince of Leiningen-Dürkheim today parish Darstein
Dimbach Oberschlettenbach 170 Prince of Leiningen-Dürkheim
Dörrenbach Albersweiler 350 Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim today the municipality of Dernbach
Euserthal Ramberg 400 Electoral Palatinate today the municipality of Eusserthal
Goecklingen Goecklingen 1,100 Electoral Palatinate and Speyer
Godramstein Siebeldingen 1,281 Electoral Palatinate since 1972 district of Landau in the Palatinate
Gossersweiler Schwanheim 456 Electoral Palatinate and Speyer since 1970 district of Gossersweiler-Stein
Graefenhausen Annweiler 466 Electoral Palatinate since 1979 district of Annweiler am Trifels
Vaccinees Goecklingen 500 Electoral Palatinate
Leinsweiler Albersweiler 400 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Lug Schwanheim 190 Electoral Palatinate and Speyer
Oberschlettenbach Oberschlettenbach 202 Prince of Leiningen-Dürkheim
Queichhambach Annweiler 192 Pfalz-Zweibrücken since 1972 district of Annweiler am Trifels
Ramberg Ramberg 800 Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim
Rinthal Wilgartswiesen 368 Zweibrücken and Leiningen today the municipality of Rinnthal
Schwanheim Schwanheim 403 Electoral Palatinate and Speyer
Siebeldingen Siebeldingen 861 Electoral Palatinate
Silz Schwanheim 385 Electoral Palatinate and Speyer
Spirkelbach Wilgartswiesen 273 Zweibrücken and Leiningen
stone Schwanheim 257 Electoral Palatinate and Speyer since 1970 district of Gossersweiler-Stein
Völkersweiler Schwanheim 230 Electoral Palatinate and Speyer
Vorderweidenthal Oberschlettenbach 430 Prince of Leiningen-Dürkheim
Wernersberg Annweiler 397 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Wilgartswiesen and Hofstätten Wilgartswiesen 732 Zweibrücken and Leiningen

Remarks:

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Landeck office , joint property of the Electorate of Palatinate and the Principality of Speyer
  2. ↑ a b c Vogtei Falkenburg , joint property of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and Leiningen-Dagsburg

history

Before the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in the War of the First Coalition (1794) the localities in 1798 furnished County were among the Canton Annweiler the Electorate Palatinate and the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken individual places the Leiningern .

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 . The canton of Annweiler belonged to the arrondissement of Zweibrücken in the Donnersberg department . The canton was divided into nine mairies and 31 municipalities. Around 1801 there were 9,549 inhabitants in the canton, of which 4,642 were Catholics, 4,758 Protestants and 149 Jews.

After the Allies regained possession of the Left Bank of the Rhine in January 1814, the Donnersberg department and thus also the canton of Annweiler became part of the provisional Central Rhine General Government in February 1814 . After the Peace of Paris in May 1814, this General Government was split up in June 1814, and the Donnersberg department was assigned to the newly formed Community Provincial Administration Commission , which was under the administration of Austria and Bavaria .

Bavarian canton Annweiler

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the area became part of Austria in June 1815 . The joint Austrian-Bavarian administration was retained for the time being. Before that, in the First Peace of Paris in May 1814, France had also ceded parts of the Lower Rhine department . The communes Eschbach , Waldhambach and Waldrohrbach were assigned to the canton Annweiler from the canton Landau and the commune Münchweiler from the canton Kandel .

On April 14, 1816, a state treaty was signed between Austria and Bavaria in which an exchange of different national territories was agreed. The Austrian areas on the left bank of the Rhine were ceded to the Kingdom of Bavaria on May 1, 1816 .

The Bavarian canton Annweiler belonged in the newly created Rhine district for the time being to the Zweibrücken district formed from the previous arrondissement and came to the Landau district on August 1, 1816. After the subdivision of the districts into Landkommissariate (1818), the canton Annweiler belonged to the Landkommissariat Bergzabern , which also included the canton Bergzabern from the Bas-Rhin department . In a statistics compiled in 1836, the canton of Annweiler counted 25 communities with a population of 15,762 inhabitants, of which 8,127 Catholics, 7,122 Protestants, 388 Jews and 125 Mennonites. In 1852 the canton of Annweiler, like all cantons in the Palatinate, was converted into a district municipality.

After 1817 a total of 25 communities belonged to the Bavarian canton Annweiler (spelling at that time):

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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, 71 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ a b Statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 292 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Statistical yearbook for the German states between the Rhine, the Moselle and the French border: on the year 1815 , Kupferberg, 1815, p. 155 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ a b Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional conditions of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, p. 291, 317, 346 ( online at Google Books ).
  5. ↑ Johann Goswin Widder : Attempt of a complete geographical-historical description of the electoral prince. Pfalz am Rheine , Part Two, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1786, p. 410 ( Google Books )
  6. ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Fourth Part, Appendix, Speier: Neidhard, 1837, p. 12 ( Google Books )
  7. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff. ( dilibri.de )
  8. ↑ Collection of the ordinances published under the Governorate of the Middle Rhine in Kreuznach , Speyer, 1819, p. 192 ( Google Books )
  9. ↑ Munich Treaty of April 14, 1816 in GM Kletke: The State Treaties of the Kingdom of Bavaria ... from 1806 up to and including 1858. Pustet, Regensburg 1860, p. 310 ( Google Books )
  10. ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , first part, Speier: Neidhard, 1836, p. 287 ( Google Books )
  11. ↑ District u. Landraths Act of May 28, 1852, Beck, 1856, p. 3 ( Google Books )