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.

local community	Mairie	EW 1815	belonging to before 1792	Remarks
spell	Landstuhl	415	Landstuhl reign
Bettenhausen	Obermohr	158	Electoral Palatinate	since 1969 part of Glan-Münchweiler
Bruchmuehlbach	Bruchmuehlbach	180	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	since 1972 part of Bruchmühlbach-Miesau
Cottweiler and Schwanden	Obermohr	288	Electoral Palatinate	today Kottweiler-Schwanden
Gerhardsbrunn	Gerhardsbrunn	189	Landstuhl reign
Gimsbach	Reichenbach	152	Electoral Palatinate	since 1971 district of Matzenbach
Main chair	Bruchmuehlbach	140	Landstuhl reign
Hütschenhausen	Hütschenhausen	800	Electoral Palatinate
Katzenbach	Hütschenhausen	280	Electoral Palatinate	since 1969 district of Hütschenhausen
Kindsbach	Landstuhl	275	Landstuhl reign
Landstuhl	Landstuhl	950	Landstuhl reign
Limbach and Fockenberg	Reichenbach	220	Electoral Palatinate	since 1976 district of Reichenbach-Steegen ( Fockenberg-Limbach )
Linden trees	Queidersbach	198	Landstuhl reign
Mackenbach	Ramstein	380	Electoral Palatinate
Matzenbach	Reichenbach	155	Electoral Palatinate
Miesenbach	Ramstein	400	Electoral Palatinate	since 1969 district, today district of Ramstein-Miesenbach
Mittelbrunn	Gerhardsbrunn	180	Landstuhl reign
Mühlbach	Bruchmuehlbach	140	Landstuhl reign	since 1972 district of Bruchmühlbach-Miesau ( Bruchmühlbach )
Nanzweiler and Diezweiler	Obermohr	198	Electoral Palatinate	since 1969 district of Nanzdietschweiler ( Nanzdiezweiler )
Niedermohr	Obermohr	317	Electoral Palatinate
Oberarnbach	Gerhardsbrunn	115	Landstuhl reign
Obermohr	Obermohr	292	Electoral Palatinate	since 1969 district of Steinrechen
Obernheim and Kirchenarnbach	Gerhardsbrunn	428	Landstuhl reign	today Obernheim-Kirchenarnbach
Queidersbach	Queidersbach	318	Landstuhl reign
Ramstein	Ramstein	680	Electoral Palatinate	since 1969 district, today district of Ramstein-Miesenbach
Reichenbach	Reichenbach	290	Electoral Palatinate	since 1969 district of Reichenbach-Steegen
Reischbach	Obermohr	189	Electoral Palatinate	since 1969 district of Niedermohr ( Reuschbach )
Schrollbach	Obermohr	213	Electoral Palatinate	since 1969 district of Niedermohr
Schwedelbach	Reichenbach	350	Electoral Palatinate
Spesbach	Hütschenhausen	220	Electoral Palatinate	since 1969 district of Hütschenhausen
Steegen	Reichenbach	450	Electoral Palatinate	since 1969 district of Reichenbach-Steegen
Stone turning	Obermohr	323	Electoral Palatinate
Vogelbach	Bruchmuehlbach	250	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	since 1972 part of Bruchmühlbach-Miesau
Weltersbach	Obermohr	184	Electoral Palatinate	since 1969 district of Steinrechen

Remarks:

1. ↑ ^{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):

spell Bettenhausen Bruchmuehlbach Fokenberg and Limbach Gerhardsbrunn Gimbsbach Main chair Hütschenhausen Katzenbach Kindsbach Kirchenarnbach and Obernheim

Kottweiler and Schwanden Landstuhl Linden trees Mackenbach Matzenbach Miesenbach Mittelbrunn Mühlbach Nanzweiler and Dietzweiler Nieder-Mohr Ober-Arnbach

Ober-Mohr Queidersbach Ramstein Reichenbach Reischbach Schrollbach Spesbach Steegen Stone turning Vogelbach Weltersbach

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, Edition 2, Wirth, 1798, p. 62, p. 70. ( Google Books )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 292 f. ( 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. 158 f. ( Google Books )
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, 292, 317, 388 ff ( online at Google Books ).
5. ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Fourth Part, Appendix, Speier: Neidhard, 1837, p. 12 ( Google Books )
6. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff. ( dilibri.de )
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. Pustet, Regensburg 1860, p. 310 ( Google Books )
8. ↑ ^{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 )
9. ↑ District u. Landraths Act of May 28, 1852, Beck, 1856, p. 3 ( Google Books )
10. ^ 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 )