Canton of Waldfischbach

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The canton Waldfischbach (French: Canton de Waldfischbach ) was one of eight administrative units into which the Arrondissement Zweibrücken (French: Arrondissement de Deux-Pont ) 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 ) was Waldfischbach .

After the Palatinate became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 , the cantons were initially retained and were part of the administrative structure until 1852.

The administrative area was mainly in the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Parishes and mairies

According to an official table from 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Waldfischbach, 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
Castle albums Waldfischbach 410 Hanau-Lichtenberg since 1969 district of Waldfischbach-Burgalben
Clausen Merzalben 460 Margraviate of Baden
Geiselberg Heltersberg 350 Electoral Palatinate
Haarsberg Zeselberg 170 Landstuhl reign since 1969 district of Weselberg ( Harsberg )
Heltersberg Heltersberg 650 Electoral Palatinate
Hermersberg Horrbach 435 Landstuhl reign
Herschberg Herschberg 650 Leiningen-Dagsburg
Hettenhausen Zeselberg 172 Leiningen-Dagsburg
Hocheinöd Hocheinöd 675 Hanau-Lichtenberg today Höheinöd
Horrbach Horrbach 315 Landstuhl reign today Horbach
Laimen Merzalben 340 Margraviate of Baden today glue
Merzalben Merzalben 360 Margraviate of Baden
Saalstadt Herschberg 260 Leiningen-Dagsburg
Schauerberg Herschberg 140 Landstuhl reign
Schmalenberg Waldfischbach 370 Electoral Palatinate
Schopp Waldfischbach 140 Electoral Palatinate
Stone albums Heltersberg 75 Electoral Palatinate
Election albums Herschberg 300 Leiningen-Dagsburg today Wallhalben
Waldfischbach Waldfischbach 350 Electoral Palatinate since 1969 district of Waldfischbach-Burgalben
Weselberg Zeselberg 240 Landstuhl reign
Zeselberg Zeselberg 213 Landstuhl reign since 1969 district of Weselberg

history

Before the annexation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the French Revolutionary Wars (1794), the localities of the administrative district of the canton Waldfischbach established in 1798 belonged to a total of five territories .

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 Waldfischbach belonged to the arrondissement Zweibrücken in the department Donnersberg and was divided into 21 municipalities, which were administered by seven Mairies . Around 1801 there were 5,129 inhabitants in the canton, including 2,137 Catholics, 2,843 Protestants and 144 Jews.

After the Allies regained possession of the Left Bank of the Rhine in January 1814, the Donnersberg department and thus also the canton of Waldfischbach 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 Waldfischbach

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 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 Waldfischbach belonged in the newly created Rhine district to the Zweibrücken district formed from the previous arrondissement. After the subdivision of the districts into land commissioners (1818), the canton Waldfischbach belonged to the Landkommissariat Pirmasens , to which the cantons Dahn and Pirmasens also belonged. In 1852 the canton of Waldfischbach, like all cantons in the Palatinate, was converted into a district municipality.

The following communities belonged to the Bavarian canton of Waldfischbach (all places in the official spelling from 1817):

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistical yearbook for the Donnersberg department , 1811, p. 294 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Statistical yearbook for the German states between the Rhine, the Moselle and the French border: on the year 1815 , Kupferberg, 1815, p. 162 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ a b Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional conditions 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. 292, 332, 362, 389 ( online at Google Books ).
  4. ↑ 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, p. 71 ( Google Books )
  5. ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Fourth Part, Appendix, Speier: Neidhard, 1837, p. 12 ( 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. ↑ Munich Treaty of April 14, 1816 in GM Kletke: The State Treaties of the Kingdom of Bavaria ... from 1806 up to and including 1858 , Regensburg, Pustet, 1860, p. 310 ( Google Books )
  8. ↑ District u. Landraths Act of May 28, 1852, Beck, 1856, p. 3 ( Google Books )
  9. ^ Official and Intelligence Gazette of the Royal Bavarian Rhine District , Speyer: Kranzbühler, 1833, p. 173 ( Google Books )