Canton of Oppenheim

The canton of Oppenheim 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). With the establishment of the canton, the separation of the judiciary from the administration was implemented. The jurisdiction was transferred to the Oppenheim Peace Court .

location

The canton of Oppenheim was located south of the canton of Mainz, the capital was today's city of Oppenheim . With the Circumscription (circular) of January 28, 1803 ( 8. Pluviose XI ), the scope of the canton and thus the judicial district of the Magistrate's Court was finally established.

In 1814, the Donnersberg department and thus also the Oppenheim 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 .

Administrative division

The canton of Oppenheim is divided into 20 municipalities :

local community	Mairie	EW 1815	belonging to before 1792	Remarks
Koengernheim	Dahlheim	353	Sickingen (noble family)
Bodenheim	Bodenheim	1,225	St. Alban's Abbey in front of Mainz
Dalheim	Dahlheim	527	Count of Falkenstein
Dexheim	Schwabsburg	525	Electoral Palatinate
Dienheim	Oppenheim	662	Electoral Palatinate
Dolgesheim	Dolgesheim	417	Count of Leiningen-Guntersblum
Eimsheim	Dolgesheim	305	Electoral Palatinate
Guntersblum	Guntersblum	1,539	Count of Leiningen-Guntersblum
Hahnheim	Selzen	363	Baron von Dienheim
Loerzweiler	Mommenheim	426	Earlier from Hettesdorf
Rudelsheim	Oppenheim	319	Baron von Dienheim	today Ludwigshöhe
Mommenheim	Mommenheim	694	Knightly inheritance
Neck home	Bodenheim	826	Kurmainz
Nierstein	Nierstein	1,506	Electoral Palatinate
Oppenheim	Oppenheim	2,098	Electoral Palatinate
Schwabsburg	Schwabsburg	525	Electoral Palatinate	today part of Nierstein
Selzen	Selzen	523	Electoral Palatinate
Waldülversheim	Weinolsheim	461	Count of Leiningen-Guntersblum	today Uelversheim
Weinolsheim	Weinolsheim	452	Electoral Palatinate
Wintersheim	Dolgesheim	225	Electoral Palatinate

Web links

• districts on the left bank of the Rhine

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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
2. ↑ [( https://books.google.de/books?id=nI9OAAAAcAAJ&dq=&hl=de&pg=PA123#v=onepage&q&f=false )]
3. ↑ [( https://books.google.de/books?id=btNDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false )]