Canton of Rehlingen
The canton of Rehlingen ( French "canton de Relling") was a canton in the Moselle department , which existed from 1801 to 1815 .
history
The canton was established in 1801 in what was then the Thionville arrondissement . It comprised 34 parishes that belonged to the Duchy of Lorraine until 1766 and three in the area of the Three Dioceses .
In 1802 the canton had 8245 inhabitants in 1573 houses.
During the Second Peace of Paris in 1815 , France had to cede part of the department to Prussia . The canton was dissolved and divided between the Saarlouis and Merzig districts.
Communities
Municipalities (1801)
Beaumarais, Becking, Bédestroff, Buren, Dieren ou Duren, Dilling, Emerstroff, Erbring, Fecking, Felsberg, Fremestroff, Furweiler, Gros-Hémestroff, Guerlefang, Guising, Haustadt, Hargarten-lès-Becking, Honzrath, Itzbach, Kerling, Kerprich- Hémestroff, Limberg-bas, Limberg-haut, Mécheren, Merching, Niédaltroff, Nunkirchen, Obresch, Lachten, Ramelfang, Rémeldorf, Reimsbach, Rhéling, Sainte-Barbe, Schwerdorf, Sistroff, Vaudrevange.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Louis Emmanuel de Chastellux - Le Territoire du département de la Moselle. Histoire et statistique, 1860, pp. 159, 160 & 213 ( Google Books )
- ^ Paul Vidal de la Blache - La frontière de la Sarre d'après les traités de 1814 et 1815. (1919)