Canton Neustadt (Donnersberg)

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The canton Neustadt (French: Canton de Neustadt ) was one of ten administrative units into which the Arrondissement Speyer (French: Arrondissement de Spire ) in the Donnersberg (French: Département du Mont-Tonnerre ) was divided. The Canton was in the years 1798 to 1814 part of the First French Republic (1798-1804) and the First French Empire (1804-1814). The main town ( chef-lieu ) and administrative seat was Neustadt .

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 Neustadt was in what is now the Bad Dürkheim district and in the area of ​​the independent city of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from the years 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton Neustadt, 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
Diedesfeld Diedesfeld 1,161 Speyer Monastery went to the canton of Edenkoben in 1818; since 1969 district of Neustadt
Duttweiler Duttweiler 500 Electoral Palatinate since 1974 district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
Elmstein and Iggelbach Elmstein 1,040 Electoral Palatinate  
Esthal Esthal 810 Baron von Dalberg  
Geinsheim Geinsheim 860 Speyer Monastery since 1969 district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
Gimmeldingen and Lobloch Gimmeldingen 1,168 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 districts of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
Graefenhausen Lambrecht 340 Speyer Monastery  
Haardt Haardt 1,000 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
Hambach Hambach 1,500 Speyer Monastery  
Hassloch Hassloch 3,560 Electoral Palatinate  
Koenigsbach Koenigsbach 625 Speyer Monastery since 1969 district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
Lachen and Speierdorf Laugh 1,600 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ( Lachen-Speyerdorf )
Lambrecht Lambrecht 1,300 Electoral Palatinate today Lambrecht (Palatinate)
Lindenberg Lambrecht 260 Speyer Monastery  
Meckenheim Meckenheim 1,484 Electoral Palatinate  
Musbach Musbach 1,400 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ( Mußbach )
Neidenfels Esthal Electoral Palatinate  
Neufrankeneck Esthal Leiningen-Dagsburg today Frankeneck
Neustadt Neustadt 4,324 Electoral Palatinate today Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
Ruppertsberg Ruppertsberg 780 Speyer Monastery  
Weidenthal Weidenthal 726 Electoral Palatinate  
Winzingen and Branchweiler Winzingen 495 Electoral Palatinate since 1892 district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse

Remarks:

  1. ↑ a b The population of Neidenfels and Frankeneck are included in Esthal.

history

Before the annexation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the French Revolutionary Wars (1794), most of the villages in the administrative district of the canton of Neustadt, established in 1798, belonged to the Electoral Palatinate and the Speyer Monastery .

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 Neustadt was part of the Speyer arrondissement in the Donnersberg department . The canton was divided into 22 municipalities, which were administered by 18 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 Neustadt 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 Neustadt

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 Neustadt was initially part of the Frankenthal district administration in the newly created Rhine district. After the subdivision of the Rhine district into land commissariats (1818), the canton Neustadt belonged to the land commissioner Neustadt . In the same year, the municipality of Diedesfeld moved from the canton of Neustadt to the canton of Edenkoben .

After 1817 a total of 21 municipalities belonged to the Bavarian canton of Neustadt:

Statistics compiled in 1836 counted 32,294 inhabitants in the canton of Neustadt, of which 12,320 were Catholics, 19,286 Protestants, 98 Mennonites and 590 Jews.

In 1852, the canton of Neustadt, 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, 66 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ a b Statistical Yearbook for the Department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 185 ( 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. 141 ( 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. 291, 341, 342, 393 ( online at 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 , Frankenthal: Enderes u. Hertter, 1817, p. 44 ( Google Books )
  9. ^ A b Heinrich Berghaus : Hertha: Journal for Geography, Ethnology and Political Studies , Volume 2, Stuttgart: Cotta, 1825, s. 658 ( Google Books )
  10. ↑ a b c Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the ko. bayer. Rheinkreises , second part, Speier: Neidhard, 1836, p. 518 ff. ( 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 )