Canton of Birkenfeld

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The canton Birkenfeld (French: Canton de Birkenfeld ) was one of nine administrative units into which the Birkenfeld arrondissement in the Saar department was divided. The Canton was in the years 1798 to 1814 part of the First French Republic (1798-1804) and the First French Empire (1804-1814). The administrative area essentially corresponds to that of today's Birkenfeld community in the district of the same name in Rhineland-Palatinate . Two places are in the neighboring Saarland community of Nohfelden .

history

Before the annexation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the French Revolutionary Wars (1794), the administrative district of the canton of Birkenfeld established in 1798 belonged mainly to the rear county of Sponheim, some places to the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken .

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 . Initially, the Saar department was divided into three arrondissements , with the canton of Birkenfeld being assigned to the Saarbrücken arrondissement . After a redistribution in 1799 and the establishment of the fourth arrondissement of Birkenfeld , to which the canton of the same name was assigned.

The canton was divided into four Mairies : Achtelsbach, Birkenfeld, Leisel and Niederbrombach.

After the Allies regained possession of the Left Bank of the Rhine in January 1814 , the Saar Department and with it the Canton of Birkenfeld became part of the provisional General Government of the Middle Rhine in February 1814 . After the Peace of Paris in May 1814, this Generalgouvernement was divided up in June 1814, the area on the left of the Rhine and on the right of the Moselle , in which the canton of Birkenfeld was also located, was assigned to the newly formed Community Land Administration Commission , which was administered by Austria and Bavaria stood.

On the basis of the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the canton came provisionally to Prussia in April 1815 ; later additional agreements formed the Oldenburg principality of Birkenfeld from part of the Saar department , which Duke Peter I took possession of in April 1817 . The previous French canton of Birkenfeld was completely absorbed by the principality. The ducal-Oldenburg territory existed until 1918 or as the Oldenburg "Landesteil Birkenfeld" until 1937.

Municipalities and localities

According to official tables from the years 1798/1799, the following communities and localities belonged to the canton of Birkenfeld (in brackets the spelling in the French-language tables):

Adventure , Achtelsbach with the Neuhofer Hof, Birkenfeld , Bleiderdingen , Böschweiler ( Buschweiler ), Brücken ( Brucken ), Buhlenberg ( Bulenberg ), Burbach, Burgbirkenfeld, Dambach , Dienstweiler , Eborn, Eckelhausen , Eisen , Elchweiler , Ellenberg , Ellweiler ( Elweiler ), Feckweiler, Gollenberg , Hambach , Hattgenstein , Heupweiler ( Heibweiler ), Hoppstädten ( Hopstätten ), Hußweiler ( Husweiler ), Kronweiler ( Cronweiler ), Leisel ( Leissel ), Meckenbach , Niederbrombach , Nockenthal , Oberbrombach , Rimsberg , Rinzenberg , Rötsweiler ( Roetsweiler ), Schmißberg ( Schmidsberg ), Schwollen , Siesbach ( Süssbach ), Sonnenberg , Traunen , Weiersbach , Werdenstein ( wertestein ) and Wilzenberg .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Hoffmann: Guide through the administration of the Rhineland from then and now ... , Düsseldorf: Selbstverl., 1918, pp. 11, 16, 44 ( dilibri.de )
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Dieterici : Mittheilungen des statistical bureau in Berlin , Volume 9, ES Mittler and Son, 1856, p. 313 ff. ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ a b Complete collection of 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 2, Edition 3, 1798, p. 269 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ a b JE Gräff: Chronological collection of the Rhenish Prussian legal sources excluding the five statutes , Fr. Lintz, 1846, p. 21 ( Google Books )
  5. ^ Georg Bärsch : Description of the government district of Trier: edited according to official sources and on behalf of the Königl. Prussia. Government , Lintz, 1849, p. 125 ( Google Books )
  6. ↑ a b Charles Oudiette: Dictionnaire géographique et topographique ... , Volumes 1 and 2, 1804, page 18 and Table from page 123 ( 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. ↑ Otto Beck: Description of the Trier District , Volume 1, F. Lintz, 1868, p. 69 ( Google Books )