Canton Niederolm

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The canton Niederolm (French: Canton de Niederolm ) was one of ten administrative units into which the arrondissement Mainz in the 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). From 1814 to 1816 the canton was administered by an Austrian-Bavarian state administration commission in Kreuznach and Worms. From 1816 to 1835, the canton Niederolm was an administrative unit in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . In 1835 the canton was finally dissolved.

location

The canton Niederolm surrounded the area of ​​the canton Mainz, the main town was today's city Nieder-Olm . To the east and partly to the north it was bounded by the Rhine , the canton of Mainz and the canton of Oberingelheim , to the west by the canton of Oberingelheim and the canton of Wörrstadt , and to the south by the canton of Wörrstadt and the canton of Oppenheim .

Before the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War , the area of ​​the canton Niederolm belonged predominantly to Kurmainz , some places to the Electoral Palatinate and the County of Falkenstein .

In 1814, the Donnersberg department and thus also the Niederolm canton were temporarily placed under the administration of the Central Rhine General Government . Through Article 47 of the Vienna Congress Act on the division of territory, the canton came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was incorporated into the province of Rheinhessen in accordance with the occupation patent of July 8, 1816 . With the organizational reform of February 5, 1835, the canton was dissolved and became part of the Mainz district .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from the years 1798 and 1811, the following 18 municipalities belonged to the canton Niederolm : which were administratively assigned to Mairies from 1800 on (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
Bretzenheim Marienborn 854 Dalheim Monastery (Mainz) today part of Mainz  
Drais Finthen 177 Kurmainz today part of Mainz  
Ebersheim Ebersheim 615 Kurmainz today part of Mainz  
Essenheim Essenheim 729 Electoral Palatinate  
Finthen Finthen 941 Dompropstei of Mainz today part of Mainz  
Gaubischofsheim Harxheim 276 Kurmainz today Gau-Bischofsheim  
Gonsenheim Gonsenheim 1203 Dompropstei of Mainz today part of Mainz  
Harxheim Harxheim 382 County of Falkenstein  
Hechtsheim Hechtsheim 980 Kurmainz today part of Mainz  
Kleinwinterheim Oberolm 382 Kurmainz today Klein-Winternheim  
Laubenheim Laubenheim 510 Kurmainz today part of Mainz  
Marienborn Marienborn 311 Kurmainz today part of Mainz  
Niederolm Niederolm 708 Kurmainz today Nieder-Olm  
Oberolm Oberolm 892 Kurmainz today Ober-Olm  
Sörgenloch Anger home 359 Mr. from Koeth.  
Floor ceilings Floor ceilings 603 Electoral Palatinate today Stadecken-Elsheim  
Weisenau Laubenheim 914 Kurmainz today part of Mainz  
Anger home Anger home 484 Kurmainz  

The Niederolm Peace Court was set up for the jurisdiction of the first instance .

Agricultural land

In the historical-statistical yearbook of the Donnersberg department for the years 9 and 10 of the Franconian Republic, the agricultural area is described as follows:

  • Terres laborables (arable fields): 6,776.64 hectares
  • Prés (grassland): 413.04 hectares
  • Vignes (vineyards): 428.64 hectares
  • Forêts: 904.08 hectares

Infrastructure

By the Canton of Nieder-Olm large parts led the direct highway connection ( Pariser or imperial road ) of Mainz on the Palatinate and Saarbrücken to Paris out the then Prefect Jean Bon Saint-André from his "Ingénieur en chef" Eustache de Saint-Far on Had instigation of the emperor erected.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Hesse: Rheinhessen in its development from 1798 to the end of 1834 | a statistical and economic attempt. Verlag Kupferberg, Mainz 1835
  2. ↑ Elmar Rettinger: The Mainz-Bingen district in history.
  3. ^ Karl Anton Schaab : History of the City of Mainz. four volumes, Mainz 1841–1851, Volume 3: (1847) History of the Grand Ducal Hessian Rhine Province
  4. ↑ [( https://books.google.de/books?id=nI9OAAAAcAAJ&dq=&hl=de&pg=PA123#v=onepage&q&f=false )]
  5. ↑ [( https://books.google.de/books?id=btNDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false )]
  6. ^ "Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbook of Rhenish Particular Law, Volume 3, Sauerländer, 1832, P. 56" ( [1] )
  7. ^ Friedrich Lehne : Historical-statistical yearbook of the Department of Donnersberge for the years 9 and 10 of the Franconian Republic , Mainz, Pfeiffer and Craß, 1801 and 1802