Canton of Bingen

The canton of Bingen (French: Canton de Bingen ) 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). The main town ( chef-lieu ) and administrative seat was Bingen .

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 Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Bingen, 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
Bingen	Bingen	3.223	Mainz Cathedral Chapter
Büdesheim	Büdesheim	1,028	Kurmainz	since 1939 district of Bingen am Rhein
Dietersheim	Büdesheim	228	Kurmainz	since 1939 district of Bingen am Rhein
Dromersheim	Ockenheim	616	Kurmainz	since 1972 district of Bingen am Rhein
Gaulsheim	Kempten	401	Count of Ingelheim	since 1939 district of Bingen am Rhein
Gensingen	Gensingen	693	Kurmainz
Grolsheim	Grolsheim	195	Kurmainz
Kempten	Kempten	332	Mainz Cathedral Chapter	since 1939 district of Bingen am Rhein
Ockenheim	Ockenheim	549	Kurmainz
Sponsheim	Grolsheim	174	Electoral Palatinate	since 1972 district of Bingen am Rhein

history

Before the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War (1794), the administrative district of the canton of Bingen established in 1798 belonged mainly to the Electorate of Mainz and to the Mainz Cathedral Chapter .

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 for the Bingen District Court . The canton of Bingen belonged to the arrondissement of Mainz 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 Bingen 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 Bingen 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 of Bingen also belonged, were made.

Rhenish Hessian canton of Bingen

The administrative division of the province of Rheinhessen was initially retained by the cantons from the French administrative structure. In 1834 the canton of Bingen 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 cantons of Bingen, Oberingelheim and Woellstein was district Bingen 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, 68 ( Google Books )
2. ^ Statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 278 ( 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. 125 ( 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. 6 ( online at 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. ^ Ordinance on the formation of circles in the province of Rheinhessen from February 5, 1835. In: Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt No. 6 of February 6, 1835, p. 44.