Canton of Delémont

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The canton of Delsberg ( French Canton de Delémont ) was a canton of the First French Republic and the First Empire in the area of ​​today's Basel-Landschaft and Jura in Switzerland .

Mont-Terrible department

It was created on March 23, 1793 with the formal annexation of the Raurak Republic decided by the French National Convention . The canton was part of the Delsberg district in the newly created Mont-Terrible department and comprised eight municipalities:

According to a circular from the Ministry of the Interior of the 7th  Frimaire of the year VI (November 27, 1797), the canton of Delsberg had 3,013 inhabitants, 737 of whom were eligible to vote.

Haut-Rhin department

According to the law of the 28th  Pluviôse of the year VIII (February 17th, 1800), the Vicques canton was abolished and merged with the Delsberg canton. The enlarged canton now belonged to the Arrondissement of Delsberg in the department of Haut-Rhin and comprised 15 municipalities:

Based on the figures in the circular from 1797, the canton of Delsberg had 5906 inhabitants, of which 1548 were eligible to vote. By resolution of the Congress of Vienna on March 20, 1815, the territory was added to the Canton of Bern . Most of it has belonged to the canton of Jura since 1979, and the municipality of Roggenburg became part of the canton of Basel-Landschaft in 1994 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gustave Gautherot: Le département du Mont-Terrible: 1793-1800 . Librairie Honoré Champion, Paris 1908, p. 283 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Loi du 28e pluviose an VIII concernant la division du territoire français et l'administration. (PDF, 24 kB) Université de Picardie, accessed on November 16, 2015 (French).
  3. ↑ CHAPITRE X: administrative organization. In: L'almanach impérial pour l'an 1810. napoleon-series.org, accessed on November 16, 2015 (French).