Canton of Pfeddersheim

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The canton of Pfeddersheim (French: Canton de Pfeddersheim ) was one of ten administrative units into which the Speyer arrondissement in the Donnersberg department was divided. The Canton was in the years 1798 to 1814 of the French Republic (1798-1804) and the Napoleonic Empire (1804-1814).

After the Rheinhessen region became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1816 , the cantons were initially retained and were part of the administrative structure until 1835.

The canton of Pfeddersheim was in what is now the area of the Alzey-Worms district and the city of Worms in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Parishes and mairies

According to the official tables from 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Pfeddersheim, which were administratively assigned to Mairies (place names in the spelling at that time); the population figures are taken from statistics from 1815; the column “belonged before 1792” indicates the sovereign belonging before the French takeover.

local community Mairie Population
1815 		belonging to before 1792 Remarks
Bermersheim Bermersheim 250 Electoral Palatinate
Dalsheim Dalsheim 518 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 municipality of Flörsheim-Dalsheim
Enzheim Gundersheim n / A Electoral Palatinate
Gundersheim Gundersheim 850 Electoral Palatinate
Gundheim Gundheim 440 Count of Greifenclau
Heppenheim an der Wiese Heppenheim 1,190 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Worms
Herrnsheim Herrnsheim 1,160 Baron von Dalberg since 1942 district of Worms
Hochheim Hochheim 562 Electoral Palatinate since 1898 district of Worms
Hohensülzen Hohensülzen 430 Count of Falkenstein
Horchheim Horchheim 774 Hochstift Worms since 1942 district of Worms
War home War home 500 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Monsheim
Leiselheim Leiselheim 561 Electoral Palatinate since 1942 district of Worms
Mölsheim Mölsheim 500 Electoral Palatinate
Mörstadt Mörstadt 430 Electoral Palatinate
Monsheim Monsheim 650 Prince of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg
Neuhausen Neuhausen 320 Hochstift Worms since 1898 district of Worms
Niederflörsheim Niederflörsheim 602 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 municipality of Flörsheim-Dalsheim
Oberflörsheim Oberflörsheim 850 Electoral Palatinate
Offstein Offstein 600 Electoral Palatinate
Pfeddersheim Pfeddersheim 1,500 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Worms
Pfiffligheim Pfiffligheim 770 Electoral Palatinate since 1898 district of Worms
Wachenheim on the Pfrimm Wachenheim on the Pfrimm 500 Count of Leiningen-Westerburg
Weinheim Wiesoppenheim 300 Hochstift Worms since 1942 district of Worms
Wiesoppenheim Wiesoppenheim 388 Hochstift Worms since 1969 district of Worms

Remarks:

  1. ↑ The population of Enzheim is included in Gundersheim.

history

Before the annexation of the left bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War (1794), the administrative district of the canton Pfeddersheim established in 1798 belonged mainly to the Electoral Palatinate , several places belonged to the Bishopric of Worms and individual villages belonged to various smaller dominions.

In 1798, the administration of the left bank of the Rhine was reorganized by the French directorate based on the French model. a. a division into cantons has been adopted. The cantons were also district courts of justice . The canton of Pfeddersheim belonged to the Speyer arrondissement in the Donnersberg department .

After the Allies had regained possession of the left bank of the Rhine in January 1814, the Donnersberg department and thus also the canton of Pfeddersheim became part of the provisional Generalgouvernement Mittelrhein in February 1814 . After the Peace of Paris in May 1814, this Generalgouvernement was divided up in June 1814, the cantons to the right of the Moselle were assigned to the newly formed Joint State Administration Commission , which was under the administration of Austria and Bavaria . During the Austrian-Bavarian administration, the canton of Pfeddersheim belonged to the arrondissement or the district of Speyer.

At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Grand Duke of Hesse was awarded a state area in the former Donnersberg department with 140,000 souls (Article 47 of the main treaty). In a state treaty concluded with Austria and Prussia on June 30, 1816 , the details of the territory of the subsequent province of Rheinhessen in the Grand Duchy of Hesse , to which the canton of Pfeddersheim also belonged, were made.

Rheinhessen canton Pfeddersheim

The cantons from the French administrative structure were initially retained as the administrative division of the province of Rheinhessen. In 1834, the canton of Pfeddersheim had the same territorial status as in French times.

On February 5, 1835, the eleven cantons were replaced by four districts . From the cantons Osthofen , Pfeddersheim and Worms was Worms formed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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, Edition 2, Wirth, 1798, pp. 62, 67 ( online )
  2. ^ Statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 189 f. ( Online )
  3. ↑ a b Statistical yearbook for the German states between the Rhine, the Moselle and the French border: on the year 1815 , Kupferberg, 1815, p. 142 f. ( Online )
  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. 58 ( online at Google Books ).
  5. ↑ a b Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , volumes 1–5, 1862, p. 58 ff ( online )
  6. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff. ( online )
  7. ↑ Main treaty of the Congress of European Powers, Princes and Free Cities assembled in Vienna of June 9, 1815, Article 97, page 96 ( online )
  8. ^ Wilhelm Hesse: Rheinhessen in its development from 1798 to the end of 1834, Kupferberg, 1835, p. 15 ( online )
  9. ↑ Der Rheinbayer , Kranzbühler, 1835, p. 74 ( online )