Canton of Burtscheid

The canton Burtscheid (French: Canton de Borcette ) was one of eleven administrative units into which the Arrondissement Aachen (French: Arrondissement d'Aix-la-Chapelle ) in the Rur department (French: Département de la Roer ) was divided . The Canton was in the years 1798 to 1814 of the French Republic (1798-1804) and the Napoleonic Empire (1804-1814).

In the east, the canton of Burtscheid bordered on the canton of Eschweiler , in the south on the canton of Montjoie (German: Monschau ).

Administrative responsibility

The canton of Burtscheid comprised the places around the city ​​of Aachen . These were administered by the cantonal office in Burtscheid .

fire Breinig Burtscheid Eilendorf Forest friend Hair Rooster Kohlscheid with Schützenheide and Klinkheide Kornelimünster

Laurensberg Morsbach Moulartzhütte (= Mulartshütte) Nütheim Oberforstbach Orsbach Richterich with Horbach and Bank Rollef Scharberg

Schleckheim Schweilbach Soers Vaals Venwegen Verlautenheide Walheim with Schmidthof and Friesenrath Pastures Würselen with Bissen, Drisch, Oppen, Haal, Elchenrath, Grevenberg

After 1815, Prussia formed the district of Aachen from the cantons of Burtscheid and Eschweiler, with its seat in the city of Burtscheid, which at that time was slightly larger than Eschweiler. Burtscheid was incorporated into Aachen in the 1890s. Since then, Aachen has been an independent city and district town with the seat of the district administration. The district building on Zollernstrasse in Aachen is located in the former Burtscheid area.

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• Ingrid Joester: The main state archive in Düsseldorf and its holdings. Vol. 3. The authorities of the period 1794-1815. Part 1: The areas on the left bank of the Rhine. P. 213–234: Municipal administration.
• History of the Roer department a. a. Canton of Burtscheid .
• Wolfgang Schieder (Ed.): Secularization and Mediatization in the Four Rhenish Departments 1803-1813. Munich 1991. Teilbd. V / 1: Roer Department ISBN 978-3-486-41912-2 .
• Paul Fabianek: Consequences of secularization for the monasteries in the Rhineland - Using the example of the monasteries Schwarzenbroich and Kornelimünster. BoD, Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-1795-3 .

literature

• District President Aachen (Ed.): 150 years of government and administrative district Aachen. Contributions to their history. Aachen 1967

Web links

• The Rhineland under the French
• Mairien in the department de la Roer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roer Department 1808 on: r-steger.de (23 Aug 2010)
2. ^ District President Aachen (Ed.): 150 years of government and administrative district Aachen. Contributions to their history. Aachen 1967