Canton of Wöllstein

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The Canton of Wöllstein (French: Canton de Wöllstein , also Canton de Wœllstein) was one of ten administrative units into which the Arrondissement of Mainz in the Donnersberg department was divided. The Canton was in the years 1798 to 1814 of the French Republic (1798-1804) and the Napoleonic Empire (1804-1814). The main town ( chef-lieu ) and administrative seat was Wöllstein .

After the Rheinhessen region became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1816 , the cantons were initially retained and were part of the administrative structure until 1835.

The administrative area included parts of today's districts of Alzey-Worms , Bad Kreuznach and Mainz-Bingen in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton Wöllstein, 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 district
Badenheim Badenheim 345 Count of Schönborn MZ  
Biebelsheim Biebelsheim 317 County of Falkenstein KH  
Bosenheim Bosenheim 454 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Bad Kreuznach KH
Eckelsheim Sieffersheim 383 County of Falkenstein AZ  
Freilaubersheim Freilaubersheim 590 Electoral Palatinate today Frei-Laubersheim KH
Fürfeld Fürfeld 875 Baron von Kerpen KH  
Gumbsheim Wöllstein 216 Kurmainz and Nassau-Saarbrücken AZ  
Hackenheim Bosenheim 253 Electoral Palatinate KH  
Ippesheim Biebelsheim 90 Bretzenheim and Falkenstein since 1969 district of Bad Kreuznach KH
Neubamberg Fürfeld 478 Kurmainz today Neu-Bamberg KH
Pfaffenschwabenheim Badenheim 404 Electoral Palatinate today Pfaffen-Schwabenheim KH
On schedule On schedule 658 Prince of Bretzenheim since 1969 district of Bad Kreuznach KH
Pleittersheim Badenheim 213 Kurmainz and Nassau-Saarbrücken today Pleitersheim KH
Saint Johann Jumpers Margraviate of Baden MZ  
Sieffersheim Sieffersheim 447 Kurmainz today Siefersheim AZ
Jumpers Jumpers 1,533 Margraviate of Baden MZ  
Ibex home Wonsheim 395 Rheingraf von Salm and Grehweiler today Stein-Bockenheim AZ
Tieffenthal Fürfeld 168 Nassau-Saarbrücken today Tiefenthal KH
Volxheim Freilaubersheim 408 Kurmainz KH  
Wölgesheim Zotzenheim 224 Electoral Palatinate today Welgesheim MZ
Wöllstein Wöllstein 1,175 Kurmainz and Nassau-Saarbrücken AZ  
Wonsheim Wonsheim 452 Electoral Palatinate AZ  
Zotzenheim Zotzenheim 296 Electoral Palatinate MZ  

Residents:

  1. ↑ Population of St. Johann bei Sprendlingen included

Remarks:

  1. ↑ a b Imperial Knighthood ( Statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse )
  2. ↑ a b c condominium since 1733: Kurmainz three quarters, Nassau-Saarbrücken one quarter ( regionalgeschichte.net )
  3. ↑ Condominium since 1642: Prince von Bretzenheim and Count von Falkenstein each half ( regionalgeschichte.net )
  4. ↑ according to other sources jointly with the margraviate of Baden ( statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse )

history

Before the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War (1794), the administrative district of the canton of Wöllstein established in 1798 belonged to seven different territories , two villages were owned by imperial knights .

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 Wöllstein belonged to the arrondissement of Mainz in the department of Donnersberg and was divided into 23 municipalities, which were administered by eleven Mairies .

After the Allies regained possession of the Left Bank of the Rhine in January 1814 , in February 1814 the Donnersberg department and thus also the Wöllstein canton became part of the provisional Central Rhine General Government . After the Peace of Paris in May 1814, this Generalgouvernement was divided up in June 1814, the cantons to the right of the Moselle were assigned to the newly formed Joint State Administration Commission , which was under the administration of Austria and Bavaria . During the Austrian-Bavarian administration, the canton of Wöllstein belonged to the arrondissement or the district administration of Alzey.

At the Congress of Vienna (1815), the Grand Duke of Hesse was granted a state area in the former Donnersberg department with 140,000 souls (Article 47 of the main treaty). In a state treaty concluded with Austria and Prussia on June 30, 1816 , the details of the territory of the subsequent province of Rheinhessen in the Grand Duchy of Hesse , to which the canton Wöllstein also belonged, were made.

Rheinhessen Canton of Wöllstein

The administrative division of the province of Rheinhessen was initially retained for the cantons from the French administrative structure. Otherwise there was no change with regard to the associated municipalities. In 1834 the canton of Wöllstein still had the same territorial status as in the French period.

On February 5, 1835, the eleven cantons of Rheinhessen were replaced by four districts . The district of Bingen was formed from the cantons of Bingen , Oberingelheim and Wöllstein .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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, 68 ( Google Books )
  2. ^ Statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 258 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ a b Statistical yearbook for the German states between the Rhine, the Moselle and the French border: on the year 1815 , Kupferberg, 1815, p. 130 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ a b Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbook of Rhenish Particular Law , Volume 3, Sauerländer, 1832, p. 58 ( Google Books )
  5. ↑ a b Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , volumes 1–5, 1862, p. 58 ff. ( Google Books )
  6. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff. ( dilibri.de )
  7. ↑ Main treaty of the Congress of European Powers, Princes and Free Cities assembled in Vienna of June 9, 1815, Article 97, page 96 ( uni-goettingen.de )
  8. ^ Wilhelm Hesse: Rheinhessen in its development from 1798 to the end of 1834. Kupferberg, 1835, p. 36 ( Google Books )
  9. ↑ Archive of the Grand Ducal Hessian Laws and Ordinances, Volume 7, p. 16 ( Google Books )