Canton of Reinach

The canton Reinach ( French Canton de Reinach ) was a canton of the First French Republic in the area of ​​today's Canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland .

It was created on March 23, 1793 with the formal annexation of the Raurak Republic decided by the French National Convention . The canton was part of the Delsberg district in the newly created Mont-Terrible department and comprised eleven municipalities:

• Allschwil
• Beautiful book
• Oberwil
• Therwil
• Ettingen
• Reinach (main town)
• Aesch
• Pfeffingen
• Arlesheim
• Duggingen
• Grellingen

According to a circular from the Ministry of the Interior of the 7th  Frimaire of the year VI (November 27, 1797), the canton Reinach had 4906 inhabitants, of which 1236 were eligible to vote. It was repealed under the law of 28th  Pluviôse of the year VIII (17th February 1800) and the communes came to the canton of Laufen in the arrondissement of Delsberg in the department of Haut-Rhin .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gustave Gautherot: Le département du Mont-Terrible: 1793-1800 . Librairie Honoré Champion, Paris 1908, p. 283 ( online ).
2. ↑ Loi du 28e pluviose an VIII concernant la division du territoire français et l'administration. (PDF, 24 kB) Université de Picardie, accessed on November 16, 2015 (French). 
3. ↑ CHAPITRE X: administrative organization. In: L'almanach impérial pour l'an 1810. napoleon-series.org, accessed on November 16, 2015 (French).