Canton of Bocholt
The Canton Bocholt was from 1811 to 1816, a unit of the centralized French administrative structure in the area of today's cities Bocholt , Rhede , Isselburg and Hamminkeln . The canton consisted of the Mairien Anholt (including Werth ), Bocholt, Dingden , Liedern and Rhede and belonged to the Arrondissement Rees , Département Lippe .
history
By resolution of the Senate of December 13, 1810, the French Empire had decided to annex the territories of some of the states allied with it in the Rhine Confederation between the Lower Rhine and Lübeck , including the Principality of Salm, in order to better enforce the continental blockade imposed on the United Kingdom . On February 28, 1811, the condominium ruling Princes Konstantin zu Salm-Salm and Friedrich IV zu Salm-Kyrburg released their officials and residents from their "submissive obligations" and demanded that they "gave way to the urge of circumstances and in firm trust in the assurance of adequate compensation" they "to continue the previously attested loyalty and attachment to their new sovereign", the Emperor Napoleon . On the same day, the Imperial French Commissioner Théobald Reichsbaron von Bacher , who was sent to the Principality of Salm, announced in the Salmian state capital Bocholt that the French Empire had taken possession of the country on January 22, 1811 and demanded its residents in the offices of Ahaus and Bocholt as well as in the Lords Anholt, Werth and Gemen to swear the oath of loyalty and obedience to their current sovereign .
Initially, the country was placed under the administration of the Prefect of the Yssel-Supérieur department in Arnhem , until the Lippe department was founded with the main town of Münster on April 27, 1811 . Below this level, the administrative area was divided into arrondissements , the arrondissements of Münster , Neuenhaus , Rees and Steinfurt . The Arrondissement Rees in the west of the Département Lippe was divided into six cantons, the cantons Bocholt, Borken , Emmerich , Rees , Ringenberg and Stadtlohn .
In the area of the previous office of Bocholt (city and parish Bocholt, parishes Rhede and Dingden) as well as the dominions Werth and Anholt , the canton Bocholt was established and the management of the Salmischen Hofkammerrat Anton Diepenbrock (1761-1837), the father of the later Cardinal Melchior von Diepenbrock . A few months later the municipal subdivision of the canton into five Mairien , the Mairien Anholt (including Werth), Bocholt, Dingden, Liedern and Rhede. On March 1, 1811, France introduced the Cinq codes for the area . In place of the Bocholt City and Regional Court, there was a peace court whose district was the canton of Bocholt. In the autumn of that year, French military conscriptions and the confiscation of monasteries began, which the Salmian princes had not yet confiscated. On January 1, 1812, the French tax system was introduced.
After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , in the course of which France and its allies suffered a decisive defeat against the Allied forces of Russia , Austria , Prussia and Sweden , a Cossack patrol of the Allied Northern Army reached the city of Bocholt, the seat of the canton , on November 15, 1813 Bocholt. More military soon followed. On November 19, 1813, the Kingdom of Prussia appointed Ludwig von Vincke as civil governor of the general government between the Weser and Rhine , to which the area of the canton Bocholt also belonged, as part of the allied central administration department . On the same day, the Prussian General von Bülow , who was staying in Münster, announced to the Salmian princes that Prussia would not tolerate a resumption of their rule.
With the Vienna Congress Act of June 9, 1815, the new rule in Westphalia was established in favor of Prussia. Even before this international law regulation, the Kingdom of Prussia introduced the Prussian General Land Law and the General Court Code by an announcement of September 9, 1814, effective January 1, 1815 . On April 15, 1816, the cantons of Bocholt, Borken and Stadtlohn were merged into a provisional administrative district. On August 10, 1816, the Borken district was founded , to which the area of the former canton of Bocholt also belonged. The new district area was divided into eight mayor's offices, in which the French municipal constitution was still in effect until March 18, 1835 ( introduction of the Prussian revised city regulations of 1831 ).
literature
- J. von Münstermann (Ed.): Almanach of the Lippe Department for the year 1813 , Münster 1812
- Friedrich Reigers : The city of Bocholt during the 19th century . Verlag J. & A. Temming, Bocholt 1907, p. 63 ff. ( Digitized version of the University Library of Münster )
Web links
- Canton Bocholt , website in the portal wiki-de.genealogy.net