Canton of Treis

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The canton of Treis (French: Canton de Treiss ) was one of twelve administrative units into which the arrondissement of Koblenz in the Rhine-Moselle department was divided when it belonged to France from 1798 to 1814. The chef-lieu Treiss was the one in 1969 with carding to Treis-Karden related Moselort in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

The canton of Treis was part of the First French Republic from 1798 to 1804 and then part of the First French Empire until 1814 . Before the annexation of the left bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War , the administrative district of the canton belonged mainly to the former Kurtrierischen offices Boppard , Cochem and Zell , the Zweibrücken office Kastellaun , the Palatine office Simmern , the Counts office Beilstein and some places of the imperial knights Boos - Bassenheim and von Clodt .

In 1814 the Rhine-Moselle department and with it the canton of Treis became part of the Generalgouvernements Mittelrhein and came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna . Under the Prussian administration, the canton of Treis became part of the newly formed districts of Cochem , St. Goar , Simmern and Zell in the Koblenz administrative district in 1816 .

Administrative division

The canton consisted of 43 villages and smaller settlements, which were grouped into 15 municipalities and had 6,178 inhabitants (as of 1808). A cantonal election meeting of all male citizens elected justice of the peace and municipalities from the most taxed citizens . The notary H. Wülfing headed the administration as president and justice of the peace. A charity office was responsible for health and poor relief. Police duties were taken over by a mounted gendarmerie stationed in Boppard . The cantonal peace court was responsible for minor criminal offenses and civil disputes . Tax and financial matters were dealt with in Cochem and Münstermaifeld .

Timber trade, viticulture and fishing are described as essential branches of the economy. Agriculture was described as underdeveloped, as was cattle breeding, because forage cultivation and stable feeding were hardly known.

The chef-lieu Treiss was 8 hours from Koblenz, 9 from Trier and 17 from Mainz. The condition of the canton roads was described in 1806 as très mauvais (very bad). In 1806, the canton's only major communication route was the road on the Hunsrückhöhe between Koblenz and Simmern. For Treis, the next station of the public courier and post network Kaisersesch was on the Trier-Koblenz overland road across the Eifel . Carriage rides and letters sent within the canton were provisionally carried out by private entrepreneurs.

The canton of Treis was the smallest in the Koblenz district and was divided into three Mairies with 15 communities .

Mairie Treis

with five parishes, 375 houses and 2,042 inhabitants, the Maire: Nikolaus Reiss

The municipalities of Bruttig-Fankel , Cond and Valwig , which belong to the canton of Zell , were also administered by Treis .

Mairie Beulich

with five communities, 219 houses and 1,228 inhabitants, the Maire: Etschett (1807) and Kaiserswerth

Mairie castles

with five parishes, 219 houses and 1,806 inhabitants, the Maire Jakob Lay

literature

  • Jürgen König, Der Hunsrück in the French period, 1798 / 94-1814, pp. 64–69, dissertation printing Darmstadt 1995 ISBN 3-9804416-0-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Handbook for the residents of the Rhine-Mosel Department, 1808, p. 86 ff. ( Dilibri.de )
  2. ^ A b Charles François Philibert Masson: Annuaire statistique du Département de Rhin-et-Moselle , 1808, p. 47 ff. ( Dilibri.de )
  3. ↑ Andreas van Recum : Years of the Department of Rhine and Moselle , 1799/1800, p. 22 ff ( dilibri.de )