Canton of Kaiserslautern

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The canton of Kaiserslautern (French: Canton de Kayserslautern , also Canton de Kaiserslautern ) was one of eight administrative units into which the Arrondissement Kaiserslautern (French: Arrondissement de Kayserslautern ) 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 ) and administrative seat was Kaiserslautern .

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 Kaiserslautern was in the area of ​​today's independent city of Kaiserslautern and also included parts of the district of Kaiserslautern in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Kaiserslautern, 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
Alsenborn Alsenborn 622 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Dansenberg Kaiserslautern 155 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Kaiserslautern
Enkenbach Alsenborn 791 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Erfenbach Weilerbach 298 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Kaiserslautern
Erlenbach Kaiserslautern 312 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Kaiserslautern
Erzenhausen Weilerbach 386 Electoral Palatinate  
Frankenstein and Diemerstein High talk 352 condominium Diemerstein today a district of Frankenstein
Hochspeier and Fischbach High talk 980 condominium today local parishes of Hochspeyer and Fischbach
Hohenecken Kaiserslautern 227 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern 3,757 Electoral Palatinate today's city center of Kaiserslautern
Krickenbach Trippstadt 220 Landstuhl reign  
Mölschbach Trippstadt 358 Baron von Hacke since 1969 district of Kaiserslautern
Moorlautern Kaiserslautern 312 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Kaiserslautern ( Morlautern )
Neunkirchen Alsenborn 521 Electoral Palatinate since 1939 district of Mehlingen
Rodenbach Weilerbach 322 Electoral Palatinate  
Siegelbach Weilerbach 293 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Kaiserslautern
Stilt mountain Trippstadt 329 Baron von Hacke  
Stockborn Weilerbach 63 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Kaiserslautern
Trippstadt Trippstadt 1,227 Baron von Hacke  
Waldleiningen High talk 169 condominium  
Weilerbach Weilerbach 751 Electoral Palatinate  

Remarks:

  1. ↑ Frankenstein owned the Electoral Palatinate and the Counts of Leinigen jointly, Diemerstein jointly owned the Electoral Palatinate and the Counts of Wartenberg .
  2. ↑ a b Hochspeyer, Fischbach and Waldleiningen belonged to the Electoral Palatinate and the Counts of Leiningen-Dagsburg jointly.

history

Before the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War (1794), most of the villages in the administrative district of the canton of Kaiserslautern, established in 1798, belonged to the Electoral Palatinate .

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 Kaiserslautern belonged to the arrondissement of Kaiserslautern in the Donnersberg department . The canton was divided into 21 municipalities, which were administered by five 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 Kaiserslautern became part of the provisional Generalgouvernement Mittelrhein 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 .

Bavarian Canton of Kaiserslautern

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 Kaiserslautern in the newly created Rhine district initially belonged to the Kaiserslautern district directorate. In 1817 some communities were reassigned. The canton of Kaiserslautern gave Erlenbach and Neukirchen to the canton of Otterberg and received Eulenbis and Pörrbach from the canton Wolfstein and Schwedelbach from the canton Landstuhl .

After the subdivision of the Rhine district into land commissioners (1818), the canton of Kaiserslautern belonged to the land commissioner of the same name .

After 1817, a total of 22 communities belonged to the Bavarian canton of Kaiserslautern:

Statistics compiled in 1836 counted 20,689 inhabitants in the canton of Kaiserslautern, of which 7,391 were Catholics, 12,810 Protestants, 237 Mennonites and 251 Jews.

In 1852 the canton of Kaiserslautern, 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, 69 ( Google Books )
  2. ^ A b Statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg. 1811, p. 191 ( 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. 146 ( Google Books )
  4. ^ A b Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbook of the Rhenish Particular Law. Volume 3, Sauerländer, Frankfurt 1832, pp. 290, 371, 393 ( 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 ff Doll, 1831, p 134 (:, Volume 16, Vienna. Google Books )
  8. ^ Philipp August Pauli: Paintings by Rheinbaiern. Enderes u. Hertter, Frankenthal 1817, p. 44 ( Google Books )
  9. ↑ a b c Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the ko. bayer. Rheinkreises , third part, Neidhard, Speier 1837, p. 9 ff. ( Google Books )
  10. ^ A b Heinrich Berghaus : Hertha: Journal for Geography, Ethnology and Political Studies , Volume 2, Cotta, Stuttgart 1825, p. 654 ( 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 )