Canton of Medelsheim

The canton Medelsheim (also canton Mödelsheim ; French canton de Medelsheim ) was one of eight administrative units into which the Arrondissement Zweibrücken (French Arrondissement de Deux-Ponts ) 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 ) was Medelsheim , now part of the Saarland community of Gersheim .

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 Saar-Palatinate district in Saarland , partly also in the area of ​​the independent city of Zweibrücken in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from the years 1798 and 1811, the following communities belonged to the canton Medelsheim, 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
Altaltheim	Altaltheim	665	Count von der Leyen	since 1974 district of Blieskastel ( Altheim )
Beckweiler	Mittelbach	314	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	since 1974 district of Blieskastel ( Böckweiler )
Bliesdalheim	Walsheim	310	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	since 1974 district of Gersheim
Breitfurt	Webenheim	435	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	since 1974 district of Blieskastel
Hengstbach	Mittelbach	214	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	since 1972 district of Zweibrücken ( Mittelbach-Hengstbach )
Mimbach	Webenheim	*)	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	since 1974 district of Blieskastel
Mittelbach	Mittelbach	241	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	since 1972 district of Zweibrücken ( Mittelbach-Hengstbach )
Mödelsheim	Mödelsheim	475	Count von der Leyen	since 1974 district of Gersheim ( Medelsheim )
Neualtheim	Altaltheim	230	Count von der Leyen	since 1974 district of Blieskastel ( Pinningen )
Niedergailbach	Walsheim	334	Count von der Leyen	since 1974 district of Gersheim
Peppekum	Mödelsheim	275	Count von der Leyen	since 1974 district of Gersheim ( Peppenkum )
Sauweiler	Mödelsheim	200	Count von der Leyen	since 1974 district of Gersheim ( Seyweiler )
Walsheim	Walsheim	340	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	since 1974 district of Gersheim
Wattweiler	Webenheim	280	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	since 1972 district of Zweibrücken
Webenheim	Webenheim	1,229	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	since 1974 district of Blieskastel

*) The inhabitants of Mimbach are included in Webenheim.

history

Before the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War (1794), the villages in the administrative district of the canton of Medelsheim, established in 1798, belonged to the Duchy of Zweibrücken , some places belonged to the Counts von der Leyen .

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 Medelsheim belonged to the arrondissement Zweibrücken in the Donnersberg department . The canton was divided into five mairies and 15 municipalities.

After the Allies regained possession of the Left Bank of the Rhine in January 1814, the Donnersberg department and thus also the canton of Medelsheim became part of the provisional Central Rhine General Government 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 Medelsheim

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 Medelsheim belonged in the newly created Rhine district to the Zweibrücken district formed from the previous arrondissement. In 1817 the canton of Medelsheim was dissolved and the municipalities were divided between the neighboring cantons:

• the canton of Neuhornbach (Hornbach) received Altaltheim, Bliesdalheim, Böckweiler, Breitfurt, Medelsheim, Neualtheim, Niedergeilbach, Pepenkum, Seyweiler and Walsheim;
• the canton of Zweibrücken received Hengstbach, Mimbach, Mittelbach, Wattweiler and Webenheim.

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. 271 ( online )
3. ↑ Statistical yearbook for the German states between the Rhine, the Moselle and the French border: on the year 1815 , Kupferberg, 1815, p. 160 ( 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. 318, 390 ( online at Google Books ).
5. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff. ( online )
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 ( online )
7. ↑ Michael Frey: Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Fourth Part, Speier: Neidhard, 1837, pp. 11, 113 ( online )