Canton of Dürkheim

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The canton Dürkheim (also canton Dürckheim ; French: Canton de Dürkheim ) was one of ten administrative units into which the Arrondissement Speyer (French: Arrondissement de Spire ) in the Donnersberg department (French: Département du Mont-Tonnerre ) 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 main town ( chef-lieu ) and administrative seat was Dürkheim .

After the Palatinate became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 , the cantons, some of which had changed territorial status , were initially retained and were part of the administrative structure until 1852.

The administrative area of ​​the canton of Dürkheim was almost entirely in what is now the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate , the former municipality of Gronau is now a district of Rödersheim-Gronau in the Rhine-Palatinate district .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Dürkheim, 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
Dackenheim Dackenheim 376 Electoral Palatinate  
Deidesheim Deidesheim 1,760 Speyer Monastery  
Dürckheim Dürckheim 4,920 Leiningen-Dagsburg today Bad Dürkheim
Ellerstadt Ellerstadt 640 Sickingen or Wartenberg  
Erpolsheim Erpolsheim 394 Leiningen-Dagsburg today Erpolzheim
Forest Forest 695 Speyer Monastery today forest on the wine route
Freinsheim Freinsheim 1,568 Electoral Palatinate  
Friedelsheim Friedelsheim 580 Electoral Palatinate  
Goenheim Goenheim 480 Electoral Palatinate today Gönnheim
Grethen Hartenburg Electoral Palatinate since 1935 district of Bad Dürkheim
Hartenburg Hartenburg Leiningen-Dagsburg since 1969 district of Bad Dürkheim ( Hardenburg )
Hausen Hartenburg Electoral Palatinate today belonging to Grethen OT from Bad Dürkheim
Herxheim am Berg Weissenheim 499 Hochstift Speyer and Leiningen-Dagsburg  
Kallstadt Kallstadt 680 Leiningen-Dagsburg  
Leistadt Kallstadt 702 Leiningen-Dagsburg since 1969 district of Bad Dürkheim
Niederkirchen Deidesheim 850 Speyer Monastery today Niederkirchen near Deidesheim
Roedersheim Roedersheim 646 Speyer Monastery today part of Rödersheim-Gronau
Tubular Hartenburg Electoral Palatinate today “Im Röhrich” in Grethen
Seebach Hartenburg Electoral Palatinate since 1935 district of Bad Dürkheim
Ungstein and Pfeffingen Ungstein 860 Leiningen-Dagsburg since 1969 district of Bad Dürkheim ( Ungstein )
Wachenheim an der Haard Guard home 2,200 Electoral Palatinate today Wachenheim an der Weinstrasse
Weissenheim am Berg Weissenheim 650 Leiningen-Dagsburg today Weisenheim am Berg

Remarks:

  1. ↑ a b c d e The population of Hardenburg, Grethen, Hausen, Röhrich and Seebach are included in Dürkheim.

history

Before the annexation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the French Revolutionary Wars (1794), the localities in the administrative district of the Dürkheim canton established in 1798 belonged to four different territories : the Hardenburg dominion owned by the Princes of Leiningen , the Electoral Palatinate and the Speyer Monastery ; one place belonged to the Counts of Sickingen , according to other sources to the Counts of Wartenberg .

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 . The canton of Dürkheim was part of the Speyer arrondissement in the Donnersberg department . The canton was divided into 22 municipalities, which were administered by 15 Mairies .

After the Allies regained possession of the Left Bank of the Rhine in January 1814, the Donnersberg department and thus also the Dürkheim canton 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 Donnersberg department was assigned to the newly formed Community Land Administration Commission , which was under the administration of Austria and Bavaria .

Bavarian Canton of Dürkheim

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the area became part of Austria in June 1815 . The joint Austrian-Bavarian administration was retained for the time being. On April 14, 1816, a state treaty was signed between Austria and Bavaria in which an exchange of different national territories was agreed. The Austrian areas on the left bank of the Rhine were ceded to the Kingdom of Bavaria on May 1, 1816 .

The Bavarian canton of Dürkheim initially belonged to the Frankenthal district administration in the newly created Rhine district. After the subdivision of the Rhine district into land commissariats (1818), the canton Dürkheim belonged to the land commissioner Neustadt . During this time there was also a change of area, the community of Bobenheim am Berg was incorporated from the canton of Grünstadt and the community of Weisenheim am Sand from the canton of Frankenthal to the canton of Dürkheim. The districts of Sankt Grethen , Röhrig and Hausen , which today belong to Bad Dürkheim , were combined. In part, Niederkirchen was listed in reference works from the first half of the 19th century as part of the Deidesheim community .

After 1817 a total of 22 communities belonged to the Bavarian canton of Dürkheim:

Statistics compiled in 1836 counted 26,036 inhabitants in the canton of Dürkheim, of which 8,572 were Catholics, 16,264 Protestants, 198 Mennonites and 1,002 Jews.

In 1852, the canton of Dürkheim, like all cantons in the Palatinate, was converted into a district municipality.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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, 66 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ a b Statistical Yearbook for the Department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 185 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Statistical yearbook for the German states between the Rhine, the Moselle and the French border: on the year 1815 , Kupferberg, 1815, p. 134 ( 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. 291, 341, 346, 372 ( online at Google Books ).
  5. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff. ( dilibri.de )
  6. ↑ Munich Treaty of April 14, 1816 in GM Kletke: The State Treaties of the Kingdom of Bavaria ... from 1806 up to and including 1858 , Regensburg, Pustet, 1860, p. 310 ( Google Books )
  7. ↑ W. Tielcke: Schütz's general geography ff Doll, 1831, p 134 (:, Volume 16, Vienna. Google Books )
  8. ^ Philipp August Pauli: Paintings by Rheinbaiern , Frankenthal: Enderes u. Hertter, 1817, p. 44 ( Google Books )
  9. ↑ a b c Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the ko. bayer. Rheinkreises , second part, Speier: Neidhard, 1836, p. 387 ff. ( Google Books )
  10. ↑ a b Official and Intelligence Gazette of the Royal Bavarian Rhine District , Speyer: Kranzbühler, 1833, pp. 66, 172 ( Google Books )
  11. ↑ District u. Landraths Act of May 28, 1852, Beck, 1856, p. 3 ( Google Books )