Canton of Frankenthal

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The canton Frankenthal (French: Canton de Frankenthal ) 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 Frankenthal .

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 Frankenthal mainly comprised today's independent city Frankenthal (Pfalz) and part of the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . Two of the communities at that time are located in what is now the Bad Dürkheim district and two in the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from the years 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton Frankenthal, 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
Beindersheim Hypocritical home 450 Hochstift Worms  
Bobenheim am Sand Bobenheim 786 Hochstift Worms since 1969 district of Bobenheim-Roxheim (Bobenheim)
Edigheim Edigheim 997 Electoral Palatinate since 1938 district of Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Eppstein Eppstein 580 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Frankenthal (Pfalz)
Flomersheim Flomersheim 420 Electoral Palatinate since 1919 district of Frankenthal (Pfalz)
Frankenthal Frankenthal 3700 Electoral Palatinate today core town of Frankenthal (Palatinate)
Gerolsheim Gerolsheim 640 Electoral Palatinate  
Grosniedesheim Grosniedesheim 310 Electoral Palatinate today Großniedesheim
Hessheim Hessheim 480 Electoral Palatinate  
Hypocritical home Hypocritical home 500 Count of Hallberg today Heuchelheim near Frankenthal
Kleinniedesheim Grosniedesheim 114 Electoral Palatinate  
Lambsheim Lambsheim 1681 Electoral Palatinate  
Mortar Edigheim *) Hochstift Worms since 1919 district of Frankenthal (Pfalz) ( Mörsch )
Oppau Oppau 1275 Electoral Palatinate since 1938 district of Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Roxheim Bobenheim 410 Hochstift Worms since 1969 district of Bobenheim-Roxheim
Studernheim Oppau 227 Electoral Palatinate since 1919 district of Frankenthal (Pfalz)
Weissenheim am Sand Weissenheim 1250 Electoral Palatinate today Weisenheim am Sand

*) The inhabitants of Mörsch are included in Edigheim.

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 Frankenthal established in 1798 belonged to two different territories : the Electoral Palatinate and the Hochstift Worms ; Heuchelheim was an imperial knighthood and belonged to the Count of Hallberg.

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 Frankenthal belonged to the Speyer arrondissement in the Donnersberg department . The canton was divided into 17 municipalities, which were administered by twelve Mairies .

After the Allies regained possession of the Left Bank of the Rhine in January 1814, the Donnersberg department and thus also the canton of Frankenthal became part of the provisional Central Rhine General Government in February 1814 . After the Peace of Paris in May 1814, this General Government was split up in June 1814, and the Donnersberg department was assigned to the newly formed Community Provincial Administration Commission , which was under the administration of Austria and Bavaria .

Bavarian canton Frankenthal

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 Frankenthal initially belonged to the Frankenthal district directorate in the newly created Rhine district. In 1817 the community of Weisenheim am Sand was separated from the canton of Frankenthal and incorporated into the canton of Dürkheim . After the Rhine district was subdivided into land commissioners (1818), the canton of Frankenthal belonged to the Frankenthal land commissioner .

After 1817, a total of 16 communities belonged to the Bavarian canton of Frankenthal:

In a statistics compiled in 1836, there were 17,221 inhabitants in the canton of Frankenthal, of which 6946 were Catholics, 9585 Protestants, 174 Mennonites and 516 Jews.

In 1852, the canton of Frankenthal, 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, 67 ( 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. 136 ( Google Books )
  4. ^ A b Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts , Volume 9, Frankfurt: Sauerländer, 1832, pp. 291, 366, 394 ( 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 Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the king. bayer. Rheinkreises , second part, Speier: Neidhard, 1836, p. 221 ff. ( Google Books )
  10. ^ Official and Intelligence Gazette of the Royal Bavarian Rhine District , Speyer: Kranzbühler, 1833, pp. 65, 167 ( Google Books )
  11. District u. Landraths Act of May 28, 1852, Beck, 1856, p. 3 ( Google Books )