Canton of Wörrstadt

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The canton Wörrstadt (French: Canton de Wœrstadt ) was one of ten administrative units into which the Arrondissement Mainz in the Département du Mont-Tonnerre was divided. The Canton was in the years 1798 to 1814 of the French Republic (1798-1804) and the Napoleonic Empire (1804-1814).

location

This canton was the only one in what is now Rheinhessen that was only limited by the Rheinhessen cantons. The border to the south and west are the cantons of Alzey and Wöllstein, to the east the cantons of Oppenheim and Niederolm , and to the north the cantons of Oberingelheim and Wöllstein.

Before the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War , the area of ​​the canton of Wörrstadt belonged predominantly to the Electoral Palatinate , some places to the Kurmainz , others were divided under inheritance of the imperial knighthood and still others under other lords.

In 1814 the Donnersberg Département and thus also the Canton of Wörrstadt were temporarily placed under the administration of the Central Rhine General Government . Article 47 of the Vienna Congress Act on the division of territory gave the canton to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was incorporated into the Province of Rheinhessen .

Parishes and mairies

According to official tables from 1798 and 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Wörrstadt, which from 1800 onwards 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
Armsheim Armsheim 675 Electoral Palatinate , Oberamt Alzey  
Bechtolsheim Bechtolsheim 879 Knightly inheritance  
Biebelnheim Bechtolsheim 494 Electoral Palatinate , Oberamt Alzey  
Eichloch Armsheim 372 Rheingraf von Grumbach since 1970 district of Wörrstadt ( Rommersheim )
Ensheim Spiesheim 317 Electoral Palatinate , Oberamt Stromberg  
Friesenheim Gabsheim 269 Baron von Dienheim  
Gabsheim Gabsheim 591 Baron von Dalberg  
Gauböckelheim Gauböckelheim 1.002 Kurmainz today Gau-Bickelheim
Hillesheim Hillesheim 409 County of Falkenstein  
Niedersaulheim Niedersaulheim 1,234 Knightly inheritance since 1969 district of Saulheim ( Nieder-Saulheim )
Niederweinheim Wallertheim 406 Electoral Palatinate , Oberamt Alzey today Gau-Weinheim
Oberhilbersheim Oberhilbersheim 624 Electoral Palatinate , Oberamt Kreuznach today Ober-Hilbersheim
Obersaulheim Niedersaulheim 454 Rheingraf von Grumbach since 1969 district of Saulheim ( Ober-Saulheim )
Partenheim Partenheim 981 Barons of Wallbrunn and Wambold  
Schimsheim Armsheim 163 Electoral Palatinate , Oberamt Alzey since 1969 part of Armsheim
Schornsheim Schornsheim 725 Knightly inheritance  
Spiesheim Spiesheim 614 Electoral Palatinate , Oberamt Alzey  
Sulzheim Vendersheim 491 Kurmainz  
Udenheim Schornsheim 522 Electoral Palatinate and Baden  
Undenheim Undenheim 838 Electoral Palatinate , Oberamt Alzey  
Vendersheim Vendersheim 414 Count of Eltz  
Wallertheim Wallertheim 776 Count of Leiningen-Guntersblum  
Wolfsheim Wolfsheim 511 Electoral Palatinate , Oberamt Alzey  
Wörrstadt Wörrstadt 1,199 Rheingraf von Grumbach  

Notes: Friesenheim, Undenheim, Hillesheim and Ober-Hilbersheim are the only municipalities in the Mainz-Bingen district .

  1. ↑ a b c Knightly inheritance (knight canton Upper Rhine), enclave of Electoral Palatinate , under Palatinate Highness ( Handbook of the Rhenish Particular Law )
  2. ↑ Common contribution of the Barons von Wallbrunn and Wambold as fiefdom of Pfalz-Zweibrücken ( Handbook of the Rhenish Particular Law )
  3. ^ Condominium Kurpfalz and Margraviate Baden ( Statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse )

Agricultural land

In the historical-statistical yearbook of the Donnersberg department for the years 9 and 10 of the Franconian Republic, the agricultural area is described as follows:

  • Terres laborables (arable fields): 5852.64 hectares
  • Prés (grassland): 243.60 hectares
  • Vignes (vineyards): 423.12 hectares
  • Forêts (forests): no information

Infrastructure

Through the canton of Wörrstadt, sections of the direct trunk road connection ( Pariser- or Kaiserstraße ) led from Mainz via the Palatinate and Saarbrücken to Paris, which at the time the Prefect Jeanbon St. André from his "Ingénieur en chef" Eustache de Saint-Far at the instigation of the Emperor erected.

Rheinhessen canton of Wörrstadt

The administrative division of the province of Rheinhessen was initially retained by the cantons from the French administrative structure. In 1834, the canton of Wörrstadt still had the same territorial status as in the French period.

On February 5, 1835, the eleven cantons were replaced by four districts . From the canton of Wörrstadt and the Canton Alzey was Kreis Alzey formed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elmar Rettinger: The Mainz-Bingen district in history
  2. ↑ 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 )
  3. ^ Statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 280 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ Statistical yearbook for the German states between the Rhine, the Moselle and the French border: on the year 1815 , Kupferberg, 1815, p. 131 ( Google Books )
  5. ^ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbook of Rhenish Particular Law , Volume 3, Sauerländer, 1832, p. 59 ( Google Books )
  6. ^ Friedrich Lehne : Historical-statistical yearbook of the Department of Donnersberge for the years 9 and 10 of the Franconian Republic , Mainz, Pfeiffer and Craß, 1801 and 1802
  7. ^ Wilhelm Hesse: Rheinhessen in its development from 1798 to the end of 1834, Kupferberg, 1835, p. 38 ( Google Books )
  8. ↑ Der Rheinbayer , Kranzbühler, 1835, p. 74 ( Google Books )