Canton of Obermoschel

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The canton Obermoschel (French: Canton de Obermoschel ) was one of eight administrative units into which the Arrondissement Kaiserslautern (French: Arrondissement de Kayserslautern ) 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 ( chef-lieu ) and administrative seat was Obermoschel .

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 Obermoschel was in today's Donnersbergkreis and in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Obermoschel, 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
Alsenz Alsenz 1141 Nassau-Weilburg  
Altenbamberg Ebernburg 343 Reipoltskirchen rule  
Callbach Upper moschel 391 Pfalz-Zweibrücken  
Cologne Alsenz 101 County of Falkenstein since 1969 district of Mannweiler-Cölln
Duchroth and Oberhausen Duchroth 769 Electoral Palatinate and Rhine County today local parishes of Duchroth and Oberhausen an der Nahe
Ebernburg Ebernburg 344 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 locality or district of Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg
Feil and Biengard Haggle 709 Electoral Palatinate today Feilbingert
Hallgarten Haggle 399 Electoral Palatinate  
High places Ebernburg 302 Leiningen-Dagsburg  
Lime kiln Niederhausen 181 County of Falkenstein  
Lettweiler Odernheim 382 Pfalz-Zweibrücken  
Manweiler Alsenz 204 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Mannweiler-Cölln
Munsterappel Niederhausen 459 Rhine County  
Niederhausen Niederhausen 300 Nassau-Weilburg today Niederhausen an der Appel
Niedermoschel Upper moschel 510 Pfalz-Zweibrücken  
Oberhausen Niederhausen 173 Electoral Palatinate today Oberhausen an der Appel
Upper moschel Upper moschel 794 Pfalz-Zweibrücken  
Oberndorf Alsenz 290 Electoral Palatinate  
Odernheim Odernheim 845 Electoral Palatinate today Odernheim am Glan
Rehborn Odernheim 566 Pfalz-Zweibrücken  
Schiersfeld Upper moschel 317 Pfalz-Zweibrücken  
Sitters Upper moschel 149 Pfalz-Zweibrücken  
Unkenbach Upper moschel 270 Pfalz-Zweibrücken  
Winterborn Niederhausen 217 Nassau-Weilburg  

history

Before the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the French Revolutionary Wars (1794), the localities in the administrative district of the canton Obermoschel, established in 1798, belonged to seven different territories , with the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken and the Electoral Palatinate having the largest shares .

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 Obermoschel belonged to the arrondissement of Kaiserslautern in the Donnersberg department and was divided into 24 communities, which were administered by seven 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 Obermoschel 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 of Obermoschel

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 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 Obermoschel initially belonged to the Kaiserslautern district directorate in the newly created Rhine district. After the subdivision of the Rhine district into land commissariats (1818), the canton Obermoschel belonged to the land commissioner Kirchheim .

After 1817, a total of 24 communities belonged to the Bavarian canton of Obermoschel:

In a statistic compiled in 1836, 14,137 inhabitants were counted in the canton of Obermoschel, of which 2,182 were Catholics, 14,494 Protestants, 65 Mennonites and 396 Jews.

In 1852, the canton of Obermoschel, 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, 69 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ a b Statistical Yearbook for the Department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 288 ( 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. 149 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ a b Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts , Volume 3, Sauerländer, Frankfurt 1832, pp. 290, 316, 346, 352, 361, 364, 381 ( online at Google Books )
  5. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts , Volume 3, Frankfurt: Sauerländer, 1832, p. 316, incorrectly names Pfalz-Zweibrücken (confuses the place with Niederhausen near Zweibrücken)
  6. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces. Leistenschneider, Trier 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 , Regensburg, Pustet, 1860, p. 310 ( Google Books )
  8. ↑ W. Tielcke: Schütz's general geography. Volume 16, Doll, Vienna 1831, p. 134 ff. ( Google Books )
  9. ^ Philipp August Pauli: Paintings by Rheinbaiern. Enderes u. Hertter, Frankenthal 1817, pp. 44, 126 ( Google Books )
  10. ^ A b Heinrich Berghaus : Hertha: Journal for Geography, Ethnology and Political Studies , Volume 2, Stuttgart: Cotta, 1825, s. 656 ( Google Books )
  11. ↑ a b Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the king. bayer. Rhine circle. Third part, Neidhard, Speier 1837, p. 301 ff. ( Google Books )
  12. ^ 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 )
  13. ↑ District u. Landraths Act of May 28, 1852, Beck, 1856, p. 3 ( Google Books )