Canton of Grünstadt

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Canton of Grünstadt, letterhead 1812 (Museum Grünstadt)

The canton of Grünstadt (French: Canton de Grunstadt ) 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 after the Leobener ceasefire in the years 1797 to 1814 part of the First French Republic (1798-1804) and the First French Empire (1804-1814). The main town ( chef-lieu ) was Grünstadt .

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 Grünstadt was completely in what is now the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Grünstadt, which were administratively assigned to Mairies (place names in the spelling at the 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
Albsheim Albsheim 332 Leiningen-Westerburg since 1969 district of Obrigheim (Pfalz)
Altleiningen and Höningen Altleiningen 560 Leiningen-Westerburg today Altleiningen
Asselheim Asselheim 779 Leiningen-Westerburg since 1969 district of Grünstadt
Battenberg Bobenheim 310 Leiningen-Dagsburg today Battenberg (Palatinate)
Bissersheim Groskarlenbach 352 Leiningen-Westerburg  
Bobenheim am Berg Bobenheim 440 Leiningen-Dagsburg  
Carlsberg Carlsberg 2,100 Leiningen-Westerburg  
Colgenstein and Heidesheim Colgenstein 310 Leiningen-Dagsburg since 1969 district of Obrigheim (Pfalz) ( Colgenstein-Heidesheim )
Dirmstein Dirmstein 1,500 Hochstift Worms  
Ebertsheim Ebertsheim 420 Leiningen-Westerburg  
Grosbockenheim Grosbockenheim 600 Leiningen-Dagsburg since 1956 district of Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse ( Großbockenheim )
Groskarlenbach Groskarlenbach 998 Electoral Palatinate today Großkarlbach
Grünstadt Grünstadt 3,150 Leiningen-Westerburg  
Hertlingshausen Carlsberg *) Leiningen-Westerburg since 1969 part of Carlsberg
Hettenleidelheim Hettenleidelheim 560 Hochstift Worms  
Children's home Children's home 700 Leiningen-Dagsburg today children's home
Kirchheim an der Eck Kirchheim 924 Leiningen-Westerburg today Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse
Kleinbockenheim Kleinbockenheim 546 Leiningen-Dagsburg since 1956 district of Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse
Kleinkarlenbach Kleinkarlenbach 450 Leiningen-Dagsburg today Kleinkarlbach
Laumersheim Laumersheim 900 Hochstift Worms  
Mertelsheim Asselheim 331 Leiningen-Westerburg today Mertesheim
Muhlheim Albsheim 300 Leiningen-Dagsburg since 1969 district of Obrigheim (Pfalz)
Newcomers Newcomers 600 Hochstift Worms  
Obersulzen Laumersheim 500 Electoral Palatinate today Obersülzen
Obrigheim Obrigheim 530 Leiningen-Westerburg today Obrigheim (Palatinate)
Quirnheim Quirnheim 430 Merz from Quirnheim at that time rule Bosweiler and Quirnheim
Saussenheim Saussenheim 500 Leiningen-Westerburg since 1969 district of Grünstadt ( Sausenheim )
Tieffenthal Tieffenthal 380 Leiningen-Westerburg  
Wattenheim Wattenheim 770 Leiningen-Westerburg  

*) The population of Hertlingshausen is included in Carlsberg.

history

Republican stamp imprint of the Canton of Grünstadt, 1804 (Museum Grünstadt)

Before the annexation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the French Revolutionary Wars (1794), the villages in the administrative district of the canton of Grünstadt established in 1798 belonged predominantly to the County of Leiningen-Grünstadt, which was divided into two Leiningen lines . In addition, the Electoral Palatinate and the Hochstift Worms had previously owned smaller parts of the canton.

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 Grünstadt was part of the Speyer arrondissement in the Donnersberg department . The canton was divided into 29 municipalities, which were administered by 23 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 Grünstadt 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 .

Until 1815, the Lutheran pastor acted Samuel Koster - former deputy in the Rhenish-German National Convention of Mainz Republic - as a justice of the peace in the canton.

Bavarian Canton of Grünstadt

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 Grünstadt initially belonged to the Frankenthal district administration in the newly created Rhine district. During this time, the community of Bobenheim am Berg was separated from the canton of Grünstadt and incorporated into the canton of Dürkheim . After the subdivision of the Rhine district into land commissariats (1818), the canton of Grünstadt belonged to the Landkommissariat Frankenthal .

After 1817 a total of 28 communities belonged to the Bavarian canton of Grünstadt:

Statistics compiled in 1836 counted 23,367 inhabitants in the canton of Grünstadt, of which 7,332 were Catholics, 13,871 Protestants, 397 Mennonites and 1,767 Jews.

In 1852, the canton of Grünstadt, 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. 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. 138 ( Google Books )
  4. ^ A b Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts , Volume 3, Sauerländer, Frankfurt 1832, pp. 291, 346, 351, 366 ( 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 , Volume 16, Doll, Vienna 1831, p 134 et seq (. Google Books )
  8. ^ Philipp August Pauli: Paintings by Rheinbaiern , Frankenthal: Enderes u. Hertter, 1817, p. 44 ( Google Books )
  9. ^ A b Heinrich Berghaus : Hertha: Journal for Geography, Ethnology and Political Studies , Volume 2, Stuttgart: Cotta, 1825, p. 652 ( Google Books )
  10. ↑ a b Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the king. bayer. Rheinkreises , second part, Speier: Neidhard, 1836, p. 277 ff. ( Google Books )
  11. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Bavarian government of the Rhine district of November 26, 1817: Announcement of November 17, 1817, cantonal division of the Rhine district ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )
  12. ↑ District u. Landraths Act of May 28, 1852, Beck, 1856, p. 3 ( Google Books )