Canton of Ostbevern

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The canton Ostbevern was a canton in the Arrondissement of Osnabrück , which was part of the Département de l'Ems-Supérieur and existed from 1811 to 1813 under the Mayor Friedrich Clemens von Elverfeldt called Beverförde zu Werries .

history

During the French era , the town of Ostbevern was added to the arrondissement of Münster in the Ems department in the Grand Duchy of Berg from 1806 to 1811 . When Napoleon ceded all areas of the Grand Duchy of Berg north of a line from Haltern to Sassenberg in 1811, the Ems department was restructured. The parts of the department remaining in the Grand Duchy of Berg were annexed to the Ruhr department on January 1, 1812 , the northern part came to the French Empire as the Département de l'Ems-Supérieur . The canton in the Osnabrück district belonged to him from 1811 to 1813. The justice of the peace (Juge de Paix) and Maire of the canton Ostbevern was the francophile Friedrich Clemens von Elverfeldt called Beverförde zu Werries ; The seat of the peace court was Ostbevern. This resulted in the abolition and distribution of the monastery properties of the Rengering monastery and the Vinnenberg monastery .

“The French bet on the Baron von Beverförde-Werries, who had recently bought the bankrupt property of Loburg . As mayor or mayor by the grace of France, the young baron carried out the orders of the French government. "

- Heinrich Eickholt

When the construction of the section of the N3, which was ordered by Napoleon in 1811 as "route impériale" or "Napoleonchausee" ( Paris - Liège - Wesel - Hamburg , today part of the federal highway 51 and the main road Ostbeverns), in Ostbevern and the surrounding area up to up to 300 workers forcibly recruited for road construction. The postal route from Münster to Osnabrück, which ran via Ladbergen and Lengerich since 1688, was routed via Telgte, Ostbevern, Glandorf and Iburg for military reasons. A relay station , the Sachsenrast , was built in Ostbevern .

The localities in the canton were:

The seat of the peace court was Ostbevern.

literature

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Heinrich Eickholt: Rengering, Münster 2004 p. 223
  2. ↑ a b Royal Decree, which orders the division of the kingdom into eight departments . List of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Hrsg.): Project Westphalian history . S. 221 ( PDF 4.9MB [accessed December 5, 2011]).