Canton of Landstuhl
The canton Landstuhl (French: Canton de Landstuhl ) 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 ( chief lieu ) was today's town of Landstuhl .
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 Kaiserslautern , partly in the districts of Kusel and Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate .
Parishes and mairies
According to official tables from the years 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Landstuhl , which were administratively assigned to Mairien (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 membership before 1792.
Remarks:
- ↑ a b According to the statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg from 1811, Niedermohr and Bettenhausen formed a municipality at the time ( Statistical yearbook 1811 )
history
Before the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War (1794), most of the localities in the administrative district of the canton Landstuhl, established in 1798, belonged to the Landstuhl rule , which belonged to the Lords of Sickingen and to the Electorate of Palatinate (parts of the upper offices of Lautern and Lauterecken), two villages belonged to the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken (Oberamt Homburg).
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 Landstuhl was part of the Zweibrücken arrondissement in the Donnersberg department . The canton was divided into eight mairies and 34 municipalities. Around 1801 there were 7,798 inhabitants in the canton, including 4,195 Catholics , 3,588 Protestants and 15 Mennonites .
After the Allies regained possession of the Left Bank of the Rhine in January 1814, the Donnersberg department and thus also the canton of Landstuhl 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 Landstuhl
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 Landstuhl belonged in the newly created Rhine district to the Zweibrücken district formed from the previous arrondissement. In 1817 the community of Schwedelbach moved from the canton of Landstuhl to the canton of Kaiserslautern.
After the subdivision of the districts into Landkommissariate (1818), the canton Landstuhl belonged to the Landkommissariat Homburg , to which the cantons Homburg and Waldmohr also belonged. In statistics compiled in 1837, the canton of Landstuhl counted 32 communities with a population of 16,470, of which 9,401 were Catholics, 7,035 Protestants, 5 Jews and 29 Mennonites. In 1852, the canton of Landstuhl, like all cantons in the Palatinate, was converted into a district municipality.
After 1817, a total of 33 municipalities belonged to the Bavarian canton of Landstuhl (spelling at that time):
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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, Edition 2, Wirth, 1798, p. 62, p. 70. ( Google Books )
- ↑ a b Statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 292 f. ( Google Books )
- ↑ Statistical yearbook for the German states between the Rhine, the Moselle and the French border: on the year 1815 , Kupferberg, 1815, p. 158 f. ( Google Books )
- ↑ 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, 292, 317, 388 ff ( online at Google Books ).
- ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Fourth Part, Appendix, Speier: Neidhard, 1837, p. 12 ( Google Books )
- ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff. ( dilibri.de )
- ↑ Munich Treaty of April 14, 1816 in GM Kletke: The State Treaties of the Kingdom of Bavaria ... from 1806 up to and including 1858. Pustet, Regensburg 1860, p. 310 ( Google Books )
- ↑ a b Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the king. bayer. Rheinkreises , Fourth Part, Speier: Neidhard, 1837, p. 171 ( Google Books )
- ↑ District u. Landraths Act of May 28, 1852, Beck, 1856, p. 3 ( Google Books )
- ^ 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 )