Canton of Bechtheim
The canton Bechtheim (French: Canton de Bechtheim ) was from 1798 an administrative unit in the left bank of the Rhine, annexed by France and then in the Grand Duchy of Hesse .
Geographical location
The area of the canton of Bechtheim extended over today's district of Alzey-Worms and parts of the city of Worms .
history
France
Before the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War (1794), the area of the canton of Bechtheim belonged mainly to the Electoral Palatinate , individual villages to various smaller lordships.
After France had annexed the former German territories in 1798, 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 canton of Bechtheim belonged to the arrondissement of Mainz in the Donnersberg department . The cantons were also judicial districts of the peace courts .
Interim administration
After the Allies had conquered the Left Bank of the Rhine again in January 1814, the Donnersberg department and thus also the canton of Bechtheim became part of the provisional Central Rhine General Government in February 1814 . After the Peace of Paris in May 1814, the Generalgouvernement was split up in June 1814, and 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 Bechtheim belonged to the arrondissement or the district administration of Alzey.
At the Congress of Vienna (1815), the Grand Duke of Hesse was granted an area in the former Donnersberg department with 140,000 souls. In a state treaty concluded with Austria and Prussia on June 30, 1816 , the details of the corresponding area, to which the canton of Bechtheim belonged, were made.
Hesse
The Grand Duchy of Hesse organized its new area on the left bank of the Rhine as the Province of Rheinhessen . The division into cantons was retained. However, the cantons were now only judicial districts of the justice of the peace . On December 9, 1822, the canton of Bechtheim was renamed "Canton Osthofen". The reason was that as early as 1804, i.e. already in the French era, the seat of the justice of the peace had in fact been relocated to Osthofen. In 1834, the canton of Osthofen still had the same territorial status as the canton of Bechtheim in the French period.
On February 5, 1835, the eleven cantons of Rheinhessen were replaced by four districts . From the cantons of Worms , Osthofen and Pfeddersheim was Worms formed.
Parishes and mairies
According to official tables from 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Bechtheim, 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.
literature
- Eckhart G. Franz , Peter Fleck, Fritz Kallenberg: Grand Duchy of Hesse (1800) 1806–1918 . In: Walter Heinemeyer , Helmut Berding , Peter Moraw , Hans Philippi (ed.): Handbook of Hessian History . Volume 4.2: Hesse in the German Confederation and in the New German Empire (1806) 1815–1945. The Hessian states until 1945 = publications of the historical commission for Hesse 63. Elwert. Marburg 2003. ISBN 3-7708-1238-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 57 ( online at Google Books ).
- ↑ a b Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , volumes 1–5, 1862, p. 58 ff. ( Google Books )
- ↑ 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 )
- ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff. ( dilibri.de )
- ↑ a b Statistical yearbook for the German states between the Rhine, the Moselle and the French border: on the year 1815 , Kupferberg, 1815, p. 124 ( Google Books )
- ↑ Art. 47 main treaty of the Congress of European Powers, Princes and Free Cities, assembled in Vienna, of June 9, 1815. In: Der Deutsche Bund , Volume 1, Issue 3. P. 96f.
- ^ Franz: Introduction , p. 9.
- ^ Collection of Grand Ducal Hessian Laws and Ordinances , Volume 3, v. Zabern, 1835, p. 198 ( Google Books )
- ^ Franz: Introduction , p. 11.
- ^ Wilhelm Hesse: Rheinhessen in its development from 1798 to the end of 1834. Kupferberg, 1835, p. 34 ( Google Books )
- ↑ Der Rheinbayer , Kranzbühler, 1835, p. 74 ( Google Books )
- ^ Statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 277 ( Google Books )
Mainz (Mayence) with the cantons
Alzey · Bechtheim · Bingen · Kirchheim · Mainz · Niederolm · Oberingelheim · Oppenheim · Woellstein · Wörrstadt
Kaiserslautern (Kayser Kaiserslautern) with the cantons
Goellheim · Kaiserslautern · Lauterecken · Obermoschel · Ottersberg · Rockhausen · Winnweiler · Wolfenstein
Speyer ( Spire) with the cantons of
Dürkheim · Edenkoben · Frankenthal · Germersheim · Grünstadt · Mutterstadt · Neustadt · Pfeddersheim · Speyer · Worms
Zweibrücken (Deux Ponts) with the cantons of
Annweiler · Homburg · Hornbach · Landstuhl · Medelsheim · Pirmasens · Waldfischbach · Zweibrücken