Canton of Homburg (Donnersberg)

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The canton Homburg (French: Canton de Homburg ) was one of eight administrative units into which the Arrondissement Zweibrücken (French: Arrondissement de Deux-Pont ) in the Donnersberg department (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 today's city of Homburg .

After the Palatinate became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 , the cantons were initially retained and were part of the administrative structure until 1852.

The administrative area was mainly in what is now the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate and in the area of ​​the city of Homburg in Saarland .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Homburg, 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
Bechhofen Homburg 261 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Beeden , Schwarzenacker and Schwarzenbach Homburg 126 Pfalz-Zweibrücken since 1913 and Schwarzenacker since 1974 districts of Homburg
Biedershausen Großbundenbach 280 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Erbach and Reiskirchen Homburg 615 Pfalz-Zweibrücken since 1936 districts of Homburg
Großbundenbach Großbundenbach 370 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Homburg Homburg 2.157 Pfalz-Zweibrücken today's city center of Homburg
Käshofen Käshofen 345 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Kirrberg Homburg 280 Pfalz-Zweibrücken since 1974 district of Homburg
Kleinbundenbach Großbundenbach 280 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Crows Mountain Käshofen 224 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Lambsborn Lambsborn 330 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Langwieden Lambsborn 130 Reign of Sickingen
Martinshöhe Lambsborn 550 Reign of Sickingen
Mörsbach Großbundenbach 365 Pfalz-Zweibrücken since 1972 district of Zweibrücken
Rose head Käshofen 105 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Wiesbach Käshofen 395 Pfalz-Zweibrücken

history

Before the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War (1794), the localities of the administrative district of the canton Homburg established in 1798 belonged almost entirely to the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken ; two places were imperial knighthood possessions of the Counts of Sickingen .

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 Homburg was part of the Zweibrücken arrondissement in the Donnersberg department . The canton was divided into four mairies and 16 municipalities. Around 1801 there were 5,953 inhabitants in the canton, 2,824 Catholics, 3,119 Protestants and 10 Jews.

After the Allies regained possession of the Left Bank of the Rhine in January 1814, the Donnersberg department and thus also the canton of Homburg 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 Homburg

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 Homburg belonged in the newly created Rhine district to the Zweibrücken district formed from the previous arrondissement. After the districts were subdivided into land commissioners (1818), the canton Homburg belonged to the land commissioner of the same name , to which the cantons Landstuhl and Waldmohr also belonged. In statistics compiled in 1837, the canton of Homburg counted 16 communities with a population of 9,633 inhabitants, including 4,198 Catholics, 5,222 Protestants, 189 Jews and 24 Mennonites. In 1852, the canton of Homburg, 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, 70 ( online )
  2. ↑ a b Statistical Yearbook for the Department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 292 ( online )
  3. ↑ Statistical yearbook for the German states between the Rhine, the Moselle and the French border: on the year 1815 , Kupferberg, 1815, p. 157 ( online )
  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. 190, 317 ( online at Google Books ).
  5. ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Fourth Part, Appendix, Neidhard, Speier 1837, p. 12 ( online )
  6. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff. ( online )
  7. ↑ 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 ( online )
  8. ↑ Michael Frey: Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Fourth Part, Neidhard, Speier 1837, p. 149 ( online )
  9. ↑ District u. Landraths Act of May 28, 1852, Beck, 1856, p. 3 ( online )