Canton of Germersheim

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The canton of Germersheim (French: Canton de Germersheim ) was one of ten administrative units into which the Arrondissement Speyer (French: Arrondissement de Spire ) in the Donnersberg (French: Département du Mont-Tonnerre ) was divided. The Canton was in the years 1798 to 1814 of the French Republic (1798-1804) and the Napoleonic Empire (1804-1814). The main town ( chef-lieu ) was Germersheim .

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 Germersheim was completely in what is now the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from the years 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Germersheim, 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
Bellheim Bellheim *) Electoral Palatinate  
Germersheim Germersheim 1,650 Electoral Palatinate  
Heard Heard *) Electoral Palatinate  
Knittelsheim Knittelsheim *) Electoral Palatinate  
Kuhhard Leimersheim *) Electoral Palatinate today Kuhardt
Leimersheim Leimersheim *) Electoral Palatinate  
Lingenfeld Lingenfeld 923 Electoral Palatinate  
Neupfotz Leimersheim *) Electoral Palatinate Neupotz today
Niederlustadt Oberlustadt 731 Order of St. John since 1969 part of Lustadt
Oberlustadt Oberlustadt 1,143 Order of St. John since 1969 part of Lustadt
Ottersheim Knittelsheim 813 Electoral Palatinate today Ottersheim near Landau
Schwegenheim Schwegenheim 1,039 Electoral Palatinate  
Sondernheim Sondernheim 312 Electoral Palatinate since 1972 district of Germersheim
Vineyard Vineyard 935 Electoral Palatinate today Weingarten (Palatinate)
Westheim Lingenfeld 513 Electoral Palatinate today Westheim (Palatinate)
Zeiskam Zeiskam 1,450 Electoral Palatinate  

*) The population figures for these communities are missing in the statistics from 1815.

history

Before the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the French Revolutionary Wars (1794), the villages in the administrative district of the canton of Germersheim, established in 1798, belonged almost entirely to the Electoral Palatinate , Nieder- and Oberlustadt were owned by the Order of St. the rule of Heitersheim , the commandery was northwest of the present-day community Lustadt .

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

The communities of Gommersheim , Freisbach , Nieder- and Oberhochstadt , which previously belonged to the canton of Landau in the Niederrhein department , were part of the area north of the Queich ceded by France in the First Peace of Paris (May 1814) and were initially assigned to the canton of Germersheim in September 1814. The two Hochstadt came back to the canton of Landau a little later, and Gommersheim to the canton of Edenkoben . Freisbach remained in the canton of Germersheim.

Bavarian canton of Germersheim

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 Germersheim in the newly created Rhine district initially belonged to the Landau district directorate. After the subdivision of the Rhine district into land commissioners (1818), the canton of Germersheim belonged to the land commissioner Germersheim .

After 1817 a total of 16 municipalities belonged to the Bavarian canton of Germersheim:

Statistics compiled in 1836 counted 20,754 inhabitants in the canton of Germersheim, of which 12,404 were Catholics, 7,874 Protestants and 476 Jews.

In 1852, the canton of Germersheim, 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. 187 ( 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. 137 ( 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, 360 ( 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. ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Fourth Part, Appendix, Neidhard, Speier 1837, p. 1 ( Google Books )
  8. ↑ Munich Treaty of April 14, 1816 in GM Kletke: The State Treaties of the Kingdom of Bavaria ... from 1806 up to and including 1858. Pustet, Regensburg 1860, p. 310 ( Google Books )
  9. ↑ W. Tielcke: Schütz's general geography , Volume 16, Doll, Vienna 1831, p 134 et seq (. Google Books )
  10. ^ Philipp August Pauli: Paintings by Rheinbaiern. Enderes u. Hertter, Frankenthal 1817, p. 44 ( Google Books )
  11. ↑ a b Michael Frey: Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the king. bayer. Rheinkreises , first part, Neidhard, Speier 1836, p. 541 ff. ( Google Books )
  12. ^ Official and intelligence gazette of the Royal Bavarian Rhine District. Kranzbühler, Speyer 1833, pp. 67, 168 ( Google Books )
  13. ↑ District u. Landraths Act of May 28, 1852, Beck, 1856, p. 3 ( Google Books )