Canton of Grumbach

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The canton of Grumbach (French: Canton de Grumbach ) was one of nine administrative units into which the Birkenfeld arrondissement in the Saardepartement was divided. The Canton was in the years 1798 to 1814 of the French Republic (1798-1804) and the Napoleonic Empire (1804-1814). Most of the administrative area was in what is now the Rhineland-Palatinate districts of Birkenfeld and Kusel , some places are now abandoned due to their location on the Baumholder military training area ( desertification ).

In 1817, a “Canton Grumbach” was also set up in the Principality of Lichtenberg , but this differed from the previous French canton in terms of territory .

history

Before the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War (1794), the territory of the administrative district of the canton of Grumbach, established in 1798, belonged to different lords , the Wild and Rhine Counts owned most of the villages.

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 adopted. The cantons were also district courts of justice . Initially, the Saar department was divided into three arrondissements , with the canton of Grumbach being assigned to the Saarbrücken arrondissement . After a reallocation in 1799 and the establishment of the fourth arrondissement of Birkenfeld , the canton of Grumbach was assigned to it.

The canton was divided into four Mairies : Grumbach, Offenbach, Schmidthachenbach and Sien.

After the Allies regained possession of the Left Bank of the Rhine in January 1814 , in February 1814 the Saardepartement and thus also the Canton of Grumbach became part of the provisional Central Rhine General Government . After the Peace of Paris of May 1814, this General Government was divided up in June 1814, the area on the left of the Rhine and on the right of the Moselle , in which the canton of Grumbach was also located, was assigned to the newly formed Community State Administration Commission , which was administered by Austria and Bavaria stood.

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the canton came provisionally to Prussia in April 1815, with the exception of the communities of Eschenau and Sankt Julian . These two communities came to the Kingdom of Bavaria in April 1816 . The communities of Bärenbach , Becherbach , Hoppstädten and Otzweiler were ceded to Friedrich V , Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg , together with the entire former canton of Meisenheim in September 1816 . From this area the Oberamt Meisenheim emerged , which until 1866 belonged to the sovereign state of Hesse-Homburg. All other municipalities in the canton of Grumbach were also taken over by Duke Ernst von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld in September 1816 . The ducal-Saxon-Coburg territory in the previous Saardepartement was divided into three cantons in January 1817, one of which was the "Canton Grumbach", which comprised 31 communities and was divided into the mayorships of Grumbach, Mittelbollenbach , Offenbach , Schmidthachenbach and Sien. In March 1819 the territory was named the Principality of Lichtenberg . The principality came to Prussia by state treaty in July 1834 and was assigned to the district of Trier in the Rhine province as the district of St. Wendel .

Municipalities and localities

According to official tables from the years 1798/1799, the following municipalities and localities belonged to the canton of Grumbach (in brackets the spelling in the French-language tables):

Bärenbach ( Berenbach ), Becherbach , Buborn , Deimberg , Dickesbach ( Dickersbach ), Eschenau , Grumbach with the Sonnerhof and the Wielhof, Hausweiler , Homberg with the Schönborner Hof, Hoppstädten ( Hoppstätten ), Ilgesheim with the Zielhof, Kappeln ( Cappeln ) with the Windhof, Kefer home ( Kelfersheim ) with the Wickenhof , Kirrweiler ( Kirweiler ), bore , Merzweiler , Mittelreidenbach , Niederalben , low Eisenbach , upper Eisenbach, upper Jeckenbach with the High Röther Hof, Oberreidenbach , Offenbach , Otzweiler , Schmidthachenbach ( Schmit Hachen Bach ) with the Stenz Horner Hof, Sien with the Sienerhof, Sienhachenbach with the Steusborner Hof, Sankt Julian ( Saint-Julien ), Sulzbach , Unterjeckenbach ( Unterjeckenbach ), Weierbach ( Weyerbach ), Weierbach ( Wiesweyler ) and Zaubach .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Josef Hoffmann: Guide through the administration of the Rhineland from then and now ... , Düsseldorf: Selbstverl., 1918, pp. 11, 16, 42 ( dilibri.de )
  2. ↑ a b Complete collection of 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 2, Edition 3, 1798, p. 270 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ a b JE Gräff: Chronological collection of the Rhenish Prussian legal sources excluding the five statutes , Fr. Lintz, 1846, p. 21 ( Google Books )
  4. ^ Georg Bärsch : Description of the government district of Trier: edited according to official sources and on behalf of the Königl. Prussia. Government , Lintz, 1849, p. 125 ( Google Books )
  5. ↑ a b Charles Oudiette: Dictionnaire géographique et topographique ... , Volumes 1 and 2, 1804, page 18 and Table from page 123 ( Google Books )
  6. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff. ( dilibri.de )
  7. ↑ Official Journal of the KK-Österreichische and K.-Baierischen Community Landes-Administrations-Commission zu Kreuznach , 1816, p. 368 ( Google Books )
  8. ↑ Otto Beck: Description of the Trier District , Volume 1, F. Lintz, 1868, p. 70 ( Google Books )
  9. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations 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. 234 ( online at Google Books ).
  10. ↑ a b c Friedrich August Lottner: Collection of the ducal Saxe-Coburg-Gothaic ordinances issued for the Principality of Lichtenberg from 1816 to 1834 , Sander, 1836, pp. 1, 29, 144, 596 ( Google Books )