Canton of Pirmasens

The canton of Pirmasens (French canton de Pirmasens ) was one of eight administrative units into which the arrondissement Zweibrücken (French arrondissement de Deux-Ponts ) 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 ( chief lieu ) was today's city of Pirmasens .

After the Palatinate became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 , the cantons were initially retained and were part of the administrative structure until 1852.

The administrative area was in what is today the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Parishes and mairies

According to an official table from 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Pirmasens , which were administratively assigned to Mairien (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 membership before 1792.

local community	Mairie	EW 1815	belonging to before 1792	Remarks
Donsieders	Rodalben	887	Hanau-Lichtenberg
Fehrbach	Pirmasens	400	Hanau-Lichtenberg	since 1969 district of Pirmasens
Gersbach	Vinningen	401	Hanau-Lichtenberg	since 1972 district of Pirmasens
Stallion Mountain	Windsberg	116	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	since 1972 district of Pirmasens ( Hengsberg )
Hirschthal	Schönau	184	Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Hocheischweiler	Ninschweiler	176	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	today Höheischweiler
Hochmühlbach	Ninschweiler	160	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	since 1969 district of Rieschweiler-Mühlbach ( Höhmühlbach )
Lviv	Lviv	1,050	Hanau-Lichtenberg
Münchweiler	Rodalben	760	Baden and Hessen-Darmstadt	today Münchweiler an der Rodalb
Nothweiler	Schönau	279	Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Ninschweiler and Dusenbrücken	Ninschweiler	425	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	today Nünschweiler
Pirmasens	Pirmasens	4,800	Hanau-Lichtenberg
Rodalben and Petersberg	Rodalben	1,391	Margraviate of Baden
Rumbach	Schönau	452	Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Ruppertsweiler	Pirmasens	150	Hanau-Lichtenberg
Schönau	Schönau	525	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	today Schönau (Palatinate)
Thaleischweiler	Thaleischweiler	648	Hessen-Darmstadt and Sickingen	since 1969 district of Thaleischweiler-Fröschen
Thalfrogs	Thaleischweiler	430	Hanau-Lichtenberg	since 1969 district of Thaleischweiler-Fröschen
Vinningen	Vinningen	822	Hanau-Lichtenberg
Windsberg	Windsberg	328	Pfalz-Zweibrücken	since 1972 district of Pirmasens
Tiny	Vinningen	54	Hanau-Lichtenberg	since 1969 district of Pirmasens

Remarks:

1. ↑ Münchweiler was divided: on the right of the Rodalb belonged to the margraviate of Baden ( rule of Graefenstein ), on the left of the Rodalb belonged to the landgraves of Hessen-Darmstadt ( rule of Lemberg ). ( Archive for Middle Rhine Church History )
2. ^ Condominium , last jointly owned by the Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt and the Counts of Sickingen ( geographical-historical-statistical description of the Rhine district )

history

Before the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War (1794), most of the villages in the administrative district of the canton Pirmasens established in 1798 belonged to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg , most recently owned by the Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt , and to the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , most recently owned by the Duke of Bavaria .

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 Pirmasens belonged to the arrondissement of Zweibrücken in the Donnersberg department . The canton was divided into eight mairies and 22 municipalities. Around 1801 there were 11,466 inhabitants in the canton, including 4,176 Catholics , 6,948 Protestants , 316 Jews and 26 Mennonites .

After the Allies regained possession of the Left Bank of the Rhine in January 1814, the Donnersberg department and thus also the canton of Pirmasens became part of the provisional Central Rhine General Government in February 1814 . After the Peace of Paris on May 30, 1814, this Generalgouvernement was split up in June 1814, and the Donnersberg department was assigned to the newly formed Community Land Administration Commission , which was under the administration of Austria and Bavaria .

In the Peace of Paris of May 1814, the border between France and Germany was restored to the status of January 1, 1792. As a result, on September 6, 1814, some communities were transferred from the Moselle department to the Donnersberg department . The canton of Pirmasens received the municipalities of Eppenbrunn , Erlenbrunn , Hilst , Kröppen , Ludwigswinkel , Niedersimten , Obersimten , Obersteinbach , Schweix and Trulben from the canton of Bitsch .

Bavarian canton of Pirmasens

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 state treaty was signed between Austria and Bavaria and an exchange between different 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 Pirmasens belonged in the newly created Rhine district to the Zweibrücken district formed from the previous arrondissement. In 1817 the communities Finsternheim , Hirschthal , Ludwigswinkel , Nothweiler , Obersteinbach , Petersbächel , Rumbach and Schönau moved from the canton of Pirmasens to the canton of Dahn .

After the subdivision of the districts into Landkommissariate (1818), the canton Pirmasens belonged to the Landkommissariat Pirmasens , to which the cantons Dahn and Waldfischbach also belonged. In statistics compiled in 1837, the canton of Pirmasens counted 24 parishes with a population of 19,317 inhabitants, of which 7,846 were Catholics, 11,058 Protestants, 394 Jews and 72 Mennonites. In 1852 the canton of Pirmasens, like all cantons in the Palatinate, was converted into a district municipality.

After 1817 a total of 23 communities belonged to the Bavarian canton of Pirmasens (spelling at that time):

Donsieders Eppenbrunn Fehrbach Gersbach Stallion Mountain Help Höh-Eschweiler Hochmühlbach

Creping Lviv Münchweiler Nieder- , Obersimten , Erlenbrunn Nünschweiler and Dusenbrücken Pirmasens Rodalben and Petersberg Ruppertsweiler

Schweix Thalfrogs Thal-Eschweiler Trulben Vinningen Windsberg Tiny

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistical yearbook for the Donnersberg department , 1811, p. 294 ( Google Books )
2. ↑ Statistical yearbook for the German countries between the Rhine, the Moselle and the French border: on the year 1815 , Kupferberg, 1815, p. 161 ( Google Books )
3. ↑ ^{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. 292, 317, 332, 346, 363 ( online at Google Books ).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the ko. bayer. Rheinkreises , Fourth Part, Speier: Neidhard, 1837, p. 258 ff ( Google Books )
5. ↑ 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, 71 ( Google Books )
6. ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Fourth Part, Appendix, Speier: Neidhard, 1837, p. 49 ( Google Books )
7. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff. ( dilibri.de )
8. ↑ Collection of the ordinances published under the Governorate of the Middle Rhine in Kreuznach , Speyer, 1819, p. 192 Google Books
9. ↑ Munich Treaty of April 14, 1816 in GM Kletke: The State Treaties of the Kingdom of Bavaria ... from 1806 up to and including 1858. Pustet, Regensburg 1860, p. 310 ( Google Books )
10. ↑ District u. Landraths Act of May 28, 1852, Beck, 1856, p. 3 ( Google Books )
11. ^ 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, p. 281 ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )