Canton Hermeskeil

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The canton Hermeskeil (French: Canton de Hermeskeil ) was one of nine administrative units into which the arrondissement Birkenfeld in the Saar department was divided. The Canton was in the years 1798 to 1814 of the French Republic (1798-1804) and the Napoleonic Empire (1804-1814). The administrative area extended over parts of today's Rhineland-Palatinate districts of Trier-Saarburg and Bernkastel-Wittlich as well as the Saarland district of St. Wendel .

history

Before the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the French Revolutionary Wars (1794), the administrative district of the canton Hermeskeil established in 1798 belonged mainly to the Electorate of Trier , larger parts also belonged to the Wild and Rhine Counts ( Mark Thalfang ). Smaller territories were the imperial "Herrschaft Schillingen" (Trier cathedral chapter ) and the "Herrschaft Sötern-Eberswald" ( Baron von Dürckheim ); Züsch and the surrounding villages belonged to the Hinteren Grafschaft Sponheim .

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 . Initially, the Saar department was divided into three arrondissements , the canton Hermeskeil was initially assigned to the arrondissement of Trier . After a reallocation in 1799 and the establishment of the fourth arrondissement of Birkenfeld , the canton Hermeskeil was assigned to it.

The canton was divided into five Mairies : Farschweiler, Hermeskeil, Kell, Otzenhausen and Thalfang.

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 Hermeskeil became part of the provisional Generalgouvernement Mittelrhein . After the Peace of Paris in May 1814, this Generalgouvernement 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 Hermeskeil was also located, was assigned to the newly formed Community Land Administration Commission , which was administered by Austria and Bavaria stood.

Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna , the canton became part of Prussia in April 1815 . Under the Prussian administration, the canton Hermeskeil was merged into the newly formed districts of Bernkastel ( mayor's office Thalfang) and Trier-Land (mayor's offices of Farschweiler , Hermeskeil , Kell and Otzenhausen ) in the administrative district of Trier , which from 1822 belonged to the Rhine province .

In relation to the previous French canton Hermeskeil, the communities Bosen , Schwarzenbach and Sötern were excluded , which only became Prussian for the time being and were ceded to the Duke of Oldenburg in April 1817 to form the new Principality of Birkenfeld .

Municipalities and localities

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

Bäsch ( Besch ), Bierfeld , Börfink ( Bierfink ), Bosen , Braunshausen , Burtscheid , Damflos , ( Damfloß ) Deuselbach ( Deiselbach ), Dhronecken ( Tronecken ), Etgert , Farschweiler ( Farsweiler ), Geisfeld , Gusenburg ( Gusenbourg ), Heddert ( Hedert ), Herl ( Herel ), Hermeskeil , Hilscheid , Hinzert ( Hinsert ), Immert , Kell , Lorscheid , Malborn , Mandern , Muhl ( Mühl ), Neuhütten ( Neuenhütten ), Niedersötern ( Niedersoetern ), Nonnweiler , Obersötern ( Obersoetern ), Otzenhausen , Osburg , Pölert , Rascheid , Reinsfeld ( Rheinsfeld ), Rorodt ( Rorod ), Sauscheid , Schillingen , Schmelz ( Schmeltz ), Schwarzenbach , Thalfang ( Talfang ), Thomm ( Tomm ), Waldweiler , Zinsershütten and Züsch .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Josef Hoffmann: Guide through the administration of the Rhineland from then and now ... , Düsseldorf: Selbstverl., 1918, pp. 14 ff., 40 ff. ( Dilibri.de )
  2. ^ A b Georg Bärsch : Description of the government district of Trier: edited according to official sources and on behalf of the Königl. Prussia. Government , Lintz, 1849, pp. 93, 125 ( Google Books )
  3. ^ Wilhelm Dieterici : Mittheilungen des Statistischen Bureaus in Berlin , Volume 9, ES Mittler und Sohn, 1856, S. 316 ff. ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ 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 )
  5. ↑ a b JE Gräff: Chronological collection of the Rhenish Prussian legal sources excluding the five statutes , Fr. Lintz, 1846, p. 21 ( Google Books )
  6. ↑ a b Charles Oudiette: Dictionnaire géographique et topographique ... , Volumes 1 and 2, 1804, page 18 and Table from page 123 ( Google Books )
  7. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff. ( dilibri.de )
  8. ↑ Otto Beck: Description of the Trier District , Volume 1, F. Lintz, 1868, p. 69 ( Google Books )