Canton of Kirchheim

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The canton Kirchheim (also Kirchheim-Boland , Kirchheimbolanden and other spellings; French : Canton de Kirchheim ) was one of ten administrative units into which the Arrondissement Mainz (French: Arrondissement de Mayence ) in the Donnersberg (French: Département du Mont-Tonnerre ) divided.

Geographical location

The administrative area of ​​the canton Kirchheim was almost completely in today's Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . The main town ( chef-lieu ) and administrative seat was today's town of Kirchheimbolanden .

history

The canton was part of the French Republic (1798–1804) and the Napoleonic Empire (1804–1814). In 1816 it fell as the only canton in the arrondissement to Bavaria and came to the Bavarian Palatinate , while all other cantons of the arrondissement formed the core of the province of Rheinhessen of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . In the Kingdom of Bavaria , the cantons were initially retained , some with changed territorial status , and were part of the administrative structure until 1852.

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from the years 1798, 1809 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Kirchheim, 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 "Territory before 1792" names the sovereign affiliation before the French occupation.

The canton of Kirchheim is divided into 22 municipalities :

local community Mairie EW 1815 Territory before 1792 today LK
Albisheim Albisheim 685 Nassau-Weilburg , Kirchheim Albisheim (Pfrimm) KIB
Bennhausen Dannenfels 102 Nassau-Weilburg , Kirchheim Bennhausen KIB
Bischheim Kirchheimboland 406 Nassau-Weilburg , Kirchheim Bischheim KIB
Bolanden Bolanden 533 Nassau-Weilburg , Kirchheim Bolanden KIB
Dannenfels Dannenfels 114 Nassau-Weilburg , Kirchheim Dannenfels KIB
Solitude Albisheim 418 Electoral Palatinate , Alzey Solitude KIB
Gauersheim Gauersheim 488 Baron von Wallbrunn Gauersheim KIB
Gerbach Gerbach 388 County of Falkenstein Gerbach KIB
Ilbesheim Ilbesheim 470 County of Falkenstein Ilbesheim KIB
Jakobsweiler Dannenfels 213 County of Falkenstein Jakobsweiler KIB
Kirchheimboland Kirchheimboland 2.145 Nassau-Weilburg , Kirchheim Kirchheimbolanden KIB
War field War field 826 Electoral Palatinate , Alzey War field KIB
Marnheim Marnheim 785 Nassau-Weilburg , Kirchheim Marnheim KIB
Mauchenheim Mauchenheim 562 Electoral Palatinate , Alzey Mauchenheim AZ
Morschheim Morschheim 480 Nassau-Weilburg , Kirchheim Morschheim KIB
Mörsfeld Mörsfeld 349 Electoral Palatinate , Alzey Mörsfeld KIB
Oberwiesen Orb 338 Nassau-Weilburg , Kirchheim Oberwiesen KIB
Orb Orb 369 Nassau-Weilburg , Kirchheim Orb KIB
Rittersheim Gauersheim 158 Nassau-Weilburg , Kirchheim Rittersheim KIB
Ruppertsecken Gerbach 410 Electoral Palatinate , Alzey Ruppertsecken KIB
Saint Alban Gerbach 305 County of Falkenstein Saint Alban KIB
Stetten Gauersheim 419 Electoral Palatinate , Alzey Stetten KIB

history

Before the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War (1794), the localities in the administrative district of the canton of Kirchheim, established in 1798, belonged to the Principality of Nassau-Weilburg and the Electorate of Palatinate , individual places were owned by smaller lords .

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 Kirchheim belonged to the arrondissement of Mainz in the Donnersberg department . The canton was divided into 22 municipalities, which were administered by 13 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 Kirchheim 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 Kirchheim (Kirchheimbolanden)

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the region 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 Kirchheim belonged to the Kaiserslautern district directorate in the newly created Rhine district. After the subdivision of the Rhine district into land commissioners (1818), the canton of Kirchheim belonged to the land commissioner Kirchheim .

The municipalities of Gerbach , Ruppertsecken and Sankt Alban were given to the canton of Rockenhausen in 1817 .

After 1817, a total of 19 municipalities belonged to the Bavarian canton of Kirchheim (place names according to the Official Journal 1817):

Statistics compiled in 1836 counted 14,612 inhabitants in the canton of Kirchheimbolanden, of which 2,796 were Catholics, 11,035 Protestants, 314 Mennonites and 467 Jews.

In 1852, the canton of Kirchheimbolanden, 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 I, Issue II, Wirth, Mainz 1798, pp. 62, 67 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ a b Ferdinand Bodmann: Annuaire statistique du Département du Mont-Tonnerre pour l'án 1809 , Kupferberg, Mainz 1809, p. 242 ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )
  3. ↑ a b Ferdinand Bodmann: Statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg, year 1811 , Kupferberg, Mainz 1811, p. 278 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ Statistical yearbook for the German states between the Rhine, the Moselle and the French border: to the year 1815 , Kupferberg, Mainz 1815, p. 126 ( Google Books )
  5. ↑ 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. 92, 290, 364, 381 ( online at Google Books ).
  6. ↑ a b Adalbert Heib: Official Directory and Statistics of the Royal Bavarian Government District of the Palatinate , Kranzbühler, Speyer 1863. S. 58, 61, 63, 64 ( 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. ↑ 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 )
  9. ↑ W. Tielcke: Schütz's general geography , Volume 16, Doll, Vienna 1831, p 134 et seq (. Google Books )
  10. ^ Philipp August Pauli: Paintings by Rheinbaiern , Enderes and Hertter, Frankenthal 1817, pp. 44, 126 ( Google Books )
  11. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Bavarian government of the Rhine district of February 18, 1818: Highest Rescript of November 6, 1817, announcement of February 17, 1818, introduction of the Land Commissariate ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )
  12. ↑ a b c Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the ko. bayer. Rheinkreises , third part, Neidhard, Speier 1837, p. 225 ff. ( Google Books )
  13. ^ 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 )
  14. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Hertha: Journal for Geography, Ethnology and State Studies , Volume 2, Cotta, Stuttgart 1825, s. 655 ( Google Books )
  15. ↑ District u. Landraths Act of May 28, 1852, Beck, 1856, p. 3 ( Google Books )