Canton of Weiden

Areas near the city of Weiden around 1810

The canton Weiden was one of the ten administrative units in the Arrondissement de Cologne ( German District Cologne ), the Département de la Roer ( German Rur department ). It was formed by the French Republic in 1798 in the territories of the Holy Roman Empire on the left bank of the Rhine , conquered in 1794, and existed until 1814.

Administrative units

The administrative district of Cologne comprised the cantons of Cologne , Bergheim , Brühl , Dormagen , Elsen , Jülich , Kerpen , Lechenich , Weiden and Zülpich .

Pastures

Weiden was the capital of the Canton de Weyden named after him in the Département de la Roer. The basis of this new structure were the government decrees valid for all French departments, which implemented the proposals of the government commissioner François Joseph Rudler , who had designed a completely new administrative structure for the conquered areas and divided it into departments. According to the "Tableau Général des cantons, communes, censes et métairies, composant le departement de la roer, avec indication de la population de chaque commune et canton" of December 24, 1798, a general representation of the cantons, communes, fiefdoms that make up the rural district and dairies, with details of the population of each municipality and each canton, the canton of Weiden comprised the following municipalities:

A to Z	Administrative headquarters	Associated communities and their hamlets	population
1	Pastures	Bachem	213
2	Pastures	Bocklemünd	88
3	Pastures	Brauweiler	246
4th	Pastures	Bushbell	272
5	Pastures	Efferen and Stotzheim	595
6th	Pastures	Cheeky	1361
7th	Pastures	Freimersdorf and Dansweiler	256
8th	Pastures	Geyen	304
9	Pastures	Junkersdorf	151
10	Pastures	Groß- and Kleinkönigsdorf	412
11	Pastures	Lindt	52
12	Pastures	Lövenich	258
13	Pastures	Longerich	149
14th	Pastures	Manstedten and Ingendorf	91
15th	Pastures	Melaten and Kriel	10
16	Pastures	QuantityI	50
17th	Pastures	Mützheim (?) And Ossendorf	83
18th	Pastures	Müngersdorf	160
19th	Pastures	Niehl	149
20th	Pastures	Nippes and Merheim (left rh.)	249
21st	Pastures	Poulheim	288
22nd	Pastures	Sinthern	208
23	Pastures	Uesdorf	59
24	Pastures	Volkhoven	38
25th	Pastures	Pastures	76
26th	Pastures	Widdersdorf	184
Total	Canton of Weiden	Population in 1798 (source reference)	6002

Mairien

The law passed on February 17, 1800 designated Cologne as the arrondissement , the administrative seat of the canton of Weiden. The large number of parishes, which often consisted of very small associations, were reduced in number by order of the prefecture and united into grand mayorships, which were known as Mairien . From June 30, 1802, the Rhineland finally became French territory. Cologne was the central contact point for administrative matters for the canton of Weiden, which now consists of seven mairies. All other cantons were placed on an equal footing with the “Canton Cologne”. A Statistique du Departement de la Roer listed the following (old spelling) Mairien:

Effers

With Efferen, Antonishäusgen (area of ​​the later Lindenburg), Kalirenhofger (?), Kirchburg (Kitschburg Lindenthal), Kreilerhoff (Kriel), Lindt (Hohenlind), Decksteinerhoff (ferme = courtyard) and Stotzheim

Cheeky

With Frechen, Buschbell, Backum (Bachem), Benzelrath, Forst, Hüchelen, Hemmerich (ferme), Mansdorff and Stüttgen (ferme)

Frimersdorff

With Frimersdorff, Manstedten, Rath, Widdersdorff, Brauweiler and Domsweiler (Dansweiler)

Levenich

With Levenich (Lövenich), Weyden, Udorff (Uesdorf), Junkersdorff, Groß- and Kleinkönigsdorff

Longerich

With Longerich, Bergheimerhoff (ferme), Butzweiler (ferme), Lindweiler, Heimersdorff (ferme), Kreilkerhoff (ferme), Merheim (left bank of the Rhine), Niehl, Weidenpesch (ferme), Nippes, Nüssenberg, Riehl and Volkhofen

Müngersdorff

With Müngersdorff, Mechtern (ferme), Melaten, Mengenich, Ossendorff, Pickendorff, Subbelrath and Bocklemünd

Poulheim

With Poulheim (Pulheim), Plesmuhl (ferme), Sintheren, Altenhof and Geyen

(Reference)

End of the canton

After the French period, the territory of the canton of Weiden became part of the Cologne district, formed in 1816, in the Cologne administrative district of the Prussian Rhine province and later became the Cologne district .

literature

• Jakob Obermanns, Hanns Clemens: The community of Lövenich in the mirror of history . Otto Ritterbach Publishing House, Cologne-Weiden 1956

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Obermanns, Clemens im: The community of Lövenich in the mirror of history .

Web links

Commons : Arrondissement Cologne  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• The Rhineland under French occupation