Canton of Remagen

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The canton of Remagen (French: Canton de Remagen ) was one of nine administrative units into which the arrondissement of Bonn in the Rhine-Moselle department was divided. The Canton was in the years 1798 to 1814 of the French Republic (1798-1804) and the Napoleonic Empire (1804-1814).

Before the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War (1794), the administrative district of the canton of Remagen belonged to the electorate of Cologne , the Duchy of Arenberg a . a.

In 1814 the Rhine-Moselle department and with it the canton of Remagen became part of the Generalgouvernements Mittelrhein and came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna . Under the Prussian administration, the canton of Remagen was added to the newly formed district of Ahrweiler in the Koblenz administrative district in 1816 .

Administrative division

The canton of Remagen was divided into four mairies. In 1808 a total of 10,165 inhabitants lived in the canton.

Mairie Heimersheim

Seven localities with a total of 2651 inhabitants belonged to the Mairie; Mayor: Steinhauer (1808).

Mairie Remagen

The Mairie included four villages with a total of 3,122 inhabitants; Mayor: Jäger (1808).

Mairie wrestling

The Mairie included four villages with a total of 1563 inhabitants; Mayor: Reifferscheid (1808).

Mairie Sinzig

The Mairie Sinzig included five villages with a total of 2552 inhabitants; Mayor: Johann Peter Weckbecker (1808)

literature

  • Jakob Rausch: 15O years of the Ahrweiler district . In: Heimatjahrbuch for the Ahrweiler district 1966 ( online edition ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook for the residents of the Rhine-Mosel Department , 1808, page 127 ff.
  2. ^ Charles François Philibert Masson: Annuaire statistique du Département de Rhin-et-Moselle , 1808, page 101 ff.