Canton of Schirmeck

Location of the canton Schirmeck in the arrondissement of Molsheim and in the department of Bas-Rhin

The canton of Schirmeck was 2015 a French constituency in Arrondissement of Molsheim in the Bas-Rhin in the region Alsace .

history

The canton was founded on March 4, 1790 as part of the establishment of the départements as part of what was then the "Schlettstadt District". In 1795 the canton was assigned to the Département Vosges and the "District Senones". However, the districts were no longer mentioned as subdivisions of the departments in the constitution of year III . With the establishment of the arrondissements on February 17, 1800, the canton was redesigned as part of what was then the arrondissement of Saint-Dié (Vosges) by transferring the communes of the Breuschtal, which had belonged to the abolished cantons of la Broque and Rotheau, to the remaining cantons of Saales and Schirmeck were distributed. From May 18, 1871, the area of ​​the canton was assigned to the Molsheim district and thus again to the Lower Alsace district . The inhabited parts of the municipality of Raon-sur-Plaine remained with France due to the agreements on the peace treaty of Frankfurt , but the forest areas of the municipality were assigned to the German Empire and therefore remained with the canton of Schirmeck. On the basis of ordinances of March 1 and 6, 1873, the canton also received the forest areas of the municipality of Raon-lès-Leau from the Saarburg district and the canton of Lörchingen (Lorquin); As early as November 1872, the municipalities of Belfosse, Belmont, Bliensbach (Blancherupt), Urbach (Fouday) and Solbach were separated from the canton of Weiler (Villé) and assigned to the canton of Schirmeck. On June 28, 1919, the canton became part of the newly founded arrondissement of Molsheim instead of the district of Molsheim. During the German occupation in World War II, there were two National Socialist camps near Schirmeck: The Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp was the only concentration camp on French soil from 1941 to 1944, and the Vorbruck-Schirmeck security camp was used to re-educate Alsatians from 1940 to 1944 and Lorraine resistance fighters . On March 22, 2015, the canton was dissolved. All municipalities now belong to the canton of Mutzig .

See also : History of the Bas-Rhin department  and History of the Molsheim arrondissement

geography

The canton bordered in the north on the canton Lorquin in the arrondissement Sarrebourg in the department Moselle ( Lorraine ) and on the canton Molsheim , in the east on the canton Rosheim , in the southeast on the cantons Barr and Villé in the arrondissement Sélestat-Erstein , in the south on the canton Saales and in the west to the cantons of Senones and Raon-l'Étape in the arrondissement of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in the department of Vosges (Lorraine) and to the canton of Cirey-sur-Vezouze in the arrondissement of Lunéville in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle (also Lorraine).

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2009
Residents	13,816	13,667	12,898	12,354	12,993	13,839
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Décret du 30 pluviôse an III (February 18, 1795): “Les communes de Russ, Wisches, Schirmeck, Rothau, Neuviller, Natzwiller, Wildersbach, Waldersbach et Barembach, faisant partie du district de Sélestat, département du Bas-Rhin, sont et demeurent réunies au district de Senones, département des Vosges "
2. ↑ Ordinance on the delimitation of the cantons Weiler, Schirmeck, Benfeld, Schlettstadt and Barr. From November 13, 1872, Law Gazette for Alsace-Lorraine 1872 , p. 776.
3. ↑ Decree No. 2014-185 of the French Interior Ministry on the redistribution of the cantons in the Bas-Rhin department