Canton of Edenkoben

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The canton of Edenkoben (French: Canton de Edenkoben ) 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 ) was Edenkoben .

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

The administrative area of ​​the canton of Edenkoben was almost completely in what is now the southern Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate , the municipality of Mörlheim is now a district of the independent city of Landau.

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Edenkoben, 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
Boebingen Böbingen, later Freimersheim 455 Electoral Palatinate  
Böchingen Böchingen 670 Electoral Palatinate  
Bornheim Bornheim 460 Electoral Palatinate 1817 to the canton of Landau
Burrweiler Burrweiler 880 Count von der Leyen  
Edenkoben Edenkoben 3,560 Electoral Palatinate  
Edesheim Edesheim 1,750 Speyer Monastery  
Fugitives Burrweiler 362 Count von der Leyen today Flemlingen
Franckweiler Gleisweiler 742 Electoral Palatinate 1817 to the canton of Landau; today Frankweiler
Freimersheim Böbingen, later Freimersheim 505 Speyer Monastery today Freimersheim (Palatinate)
Gleisweiler Gleisweiler 613 Electoral Palatinate  
Großfischlingen Großfischlingen 386 Speyer Monastery  
Heimfelden Weyer 690 Speyer Monastery today Hainfeld
Insheim Insheim ? Electoral Palatinate 1817 to the canton of Landau
Kirrweiler Kirrweiler 1.310 Speyer Monastery today Kirrweiler (Palatinate)
Small fishlings Großfischlingen 314 Electoral Palatinate  
Knöringen Böchingen 377 Electoral Palatinate  
Maykammer with Alsterweiler Maykammer 1,780 Speyer Monastery today Maikammer
Merlenheim Merlenheim ? Electoral Palatinate 1817 to the canton of Landau; since 1937 Landau district of Mörlheim
Offenbach Merlenheim 1,394 Electoral Palatinate 1817 to the canton of Landau; today Offenbach an der Queich
Roschbach Burrweiler 420 Electoral Palatinate  
Roth Roth 1,398 Margraviate of Baden today Rhodt under Rietburg
St. Martin St. Martin 1,400 Speyer Monastery  
Venningen Venningen 980 Speyer Monastery  
Walsheim Böchingen 508 Electoral Palatinate 1817 to the canton of Landau
Weyer Weyer 630 Speyer Monastery today Weyher in the Palatinate

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 canton of Edenkoben, established in 1798, belonged to four different territories : to the Electoral Palatinate , to the Hochstift Speyer , two places belonged to the Counts von der Leyen and one to the margraviate of Baden .

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 Edenkoben was part of the Speyer arrondissement in the Donnersberg department . The canton was divided into 25 municipalities, which were administered by 16 Mairies .

After the Allies regained possession of the Left Bank of the Rhine in January 1814 , in February 1814 the Donnersberg department and thus also the canton of Edenkoben became part of the provisional Central Rhine General Government . 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 .

The communities of Altdorf , Essingen , Dammheim and Nußdorf , which previously belonged to the Lower Rhine department , were part of the area north of the Queichs ceded by France in the First Peace of Paris (May 1814) and were initially assigned to the canton of Edenkoben in September 1814. With the exception of Altdorf, this area was later returned to the canton of Landau.

Bavarian canton of Edenkoben

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the area became part of Austria in June 1815 . As early as 1814, the communities of Altdorf and Essingen from the canton of Landau ( Lower Rhine department ) were incorporated into the canton of Edenkoben. In the First Peace of Paris (May 1814) the area of ​​the Lower Rhine department north of the Queich fell to Austria.

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 Edenkoben initially belonged to the Landau district directorate in the newly created Rhine district. After the subdivision of the Rhine district into land commissariats (1818), the canton Edenkoben belonged to the Landau commissariat . In 1817, the cantons in the Landau district were reorganized. The communities Bornheim , Essingen , Frankweiler , Insheim , Mörlheim , Offenbach and Walsheim moved from the canton of Edenkoben to the canton of Landau ; in contrast, the municipality of Gommersheim was incorporated into the canton of Landau and the municipality of Diedesfeld from the canton of Neustadt in the canton of Edenkoben.

After 1817 a total of 22 municipalities belonged to the Bavarian canton of Edenkoben:

Statistics compiled in 1836 counted 25,419 inhabitants in the canton of Edenkoben, of which 15,675 were Catholics, 8,915 Protestants, 11 Mennonites and 819 Jews.

In 1852, the canton of Edenkoben, 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, 65 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ a b Statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 186 ( 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. 135 ( 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. 292, 332, 342, 390 ( 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. ↑ Official Journal of the kk-Austrian and k.-Baier communal Landes-Administrations-Commission from September 15, 1814, announcement on territorial division, Worms, 1814 ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )
  7. ↑ 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 )
  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 , first part, Speier: Neidhard, 1836, pp. 114, 220 ff. ( Google Books )
  10. ↑ Michael Frey: Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Fourth Part, Appendix, Speier: Neidhard, 1837, p. 1 ( Google Books )
  11. ^ Official and Intelligence Gazette of the Royal Bavarian Rhine District , Speyer: Kranzbühler, 1833, p. 171 ( Google Books )
  12. ↑ District u. Landraths Act of May 28, 1852, Beck, 1856, p. 3 ( Google Books )