Canton of Speyer

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The canton Speyer (also canton Speier ; French: Canton de Spire ) was one of ten administrative units into which the Arrondissement Speyer (French: Arrondissement de Spire ) in the Donnersberg department (French: Département du Mont-Tonnerre ) was divided. The Canton was in the years 1798 to 1814 part of the First French Republic (1798-1804) and the First French Empire (1804-1814). The main town ( chef-lieu ) and administrative seat was Speyer .

After the Palatinate became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 , the cantons, some of which had changed territorial status , were initially retained and were part of the administrative structure until 1852.

The administrative area of ​​the canton of Speyer was in today's Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis as well as in the area of ​​the independent city of Speyer in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Speyer, which were administratively assigned to Mairies (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 belonging before the French takeover.

local community Mairie EW 1815 belonging to before 1792 Remarks
Berghausen Mechtersheim 469 Speyer Monastery since 1969 district of Römerberg
Dudenhofen Dudenhofen 700 Speyer Monastery  
Hanhofen Hanhofen 460 Speyer Monastery  
Harthausen Heiligenstein 624 Speyer Monastery  
Heiligenstein Heiligenstein 520 Speyer Monastery since 1969 district of Römerberg
Mechtersheim Mechtersheim 540 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Römerberg
Otterstadt Otterstadt 660 Speyer Monastery  
Schifferstadt Schifferstadt 1,836 Speyer Monastery  
Speier Speier 6,000 Free imperial city Independent city of Speyer
Forest lake Forest lake 760 Speyer Monastery  

history

Before the annexation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the French Revolutionary Wars (1794), most of the villages in the administrative district of the canton of Speyer, established in 1798, belonged to the Speyer Monastery ; Speyer itself was a Free Imperial City until the end of the 18th century .

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 Speyer was part of the Speyer arrondissement in the Donnersberg department . The canton was divided into twelve municipalities, which were administered by ten Mairies .

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

Bavarian Canton of Speyer

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 in which an exchange of different national 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 Speyer initially belonged to the Frankenthal district directorate in the newly created Rhine district. After the subdivision of the Rhine district into land commissioners (1818), the canton Speyer belonged to the Landkommissariat Speyer .

After 1817 a total of ten municipalities belonged to the Bavarian canton of Speyer:

In a statistics compiled in 1836, 19,654 inhabitants were counted in the canton of Speyer, of which 13,183 were Catholics, 6,119 Protestants, 58 Mennonites and 249 Jews.

In 1852, the canton of Speyer, like all cantons in the Palatinate, was converted into a district municipality.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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, 66 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ a b Statistical yearbook for the Donnersberg department , 1811, p. 190 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Statistical yearbook for the German states between the Rhine, the Moselle and the French border: on the year 1815 , Kupferberg, 1815, p. 143 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ a b Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations 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. 291, 342, 369 ( online at Google Books ).
  5. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Leistenschneider, Trier 1830, p. 13 ff. ( dilibri.de )
  6. ↑ 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 )
  7. ↑ W. Tielcke: Schütz's general geography , Volume 16, Doll, Vienna 1831, p 134 et seq (. Google Books )
  8. ↑ Philipp August Pauli: Paintings by Rheinbaiern , Enderes a. Hertter, Frankenthal 1817, p. 44 ( Google Books )
  9. ^ A b Heinrich Berghaus : Hertha: Journal for Geography, Ethnology and Political Studies , Volume 2, Stuttgart: Cotta, 1825, p. 660 ( Google Books )
  10. ↑ a b Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the king. bayer. Rheinkreises , Second Part, Neidhard, Speier 1836, p. 8 ff. ( 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 ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )
  12. ↑ District u. Landraths Act of May 28, 1852, Beck, 1856, p. 3 ( Google Books )