Canton Werden

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The Canton Werden (French: Canton de Werden ) was one of seven administrative units formed in 1808 , into which the Arrondissement Essen in the department of the Rhine of the Grand Duchy of Berg established by Napoleon was divided and existed until 1813. The canton was also a magistrate's district . The eponymous main town ( chef-lieu ) was the city of Werden , today a district of Essen in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1808 there were 7,589 inhabitants in the canton .

history

Until the beginning of the 19th century, the administrative district of the canton of Werden belonged almost entirely to the imperial abbey of Werden ; Byfang was part of the imperial monastery of Essen . The Werden Abbey as well as the Reichsstift Essen and their territories were awarded to the King of Prussia in 1803 at the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . In the peace treaty of Tilsit (1807) the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III renounced . on his possessions between the Rhine and Elbe . Napoleon divided u. a. the area of ​​the Werden Abbey and the Reichsstift Essen in March 1808 to the Grand Duchy of Berg, established in 1806 .

In November 1808, a comprehensive reorganization of the administration based on the French model began in the Grand Duchy. It provided for a breakdown into departments , arrondissements (districts) and cantons . The canton Werden belonged to the department of the Rhine and was divided into the Mairies Kettwig and Werden, from which after 1815 the Prussian mayorships of Kettwig and Werden in the Essen district emerged. After Napoleon's defeat in the Battle of Leipzig at the end of 1813, the region was provisionally subordinated to the Berg Generalgouvernement and assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

Today the villages belong almost entirely to the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Essen .

Administrative division

Locality Mairie 1811 Reign until 1803 belongs to today
Baldeney, farmers Kettwig Become an Imperial Abbey Essen , district of Bredeney
Byfang , village Become Reichsstift Essen Essen , Byfang district
Bredeney , farmers Kettwig Become an Imperial Abbey Essen , Bredeney district
Fish sheets , village Become Become an Imperial Abbey Essen , Fischlaken district
Hamm, village Become Become an Imperial Abbey Essen , district of Werden
Heidthausen , village Become Become an Imperial Abbey Essen , Heidhausen district
Heisingen , village Kettwig Become an Imperial Abbey Essen , Heisingen district
Hinsbeck , village Become Become an Imperial Abbey Essen , district of Kupferdreh
Holsterhausen , village Become Become an Imperial Abbey Essen , district of Holsterhausen
Ickten , peasantry Kettwig Become an Imperial Abbey Essen , district of Kettwig
Kettwig , stains Kettwig Become an Imperial Abbey Essen , Kettwig district
Kettwiger circumstance , peasantry Kettwig Become an Imperial Abbey Essen , district of Kettwig
Small circumstance , village community Become Become an Imperial Abbey Velbert , part of the city district Mitte
Rodberg , village Become Become an Imperial Abbey Essen , district of Kupferdreh
Roßkothen , farmers Kettwig Become an Imperial Abbey Essen , district of Kettwig
Schuir , peasantry Kettwig Become an Imperial Abbey Essen , Schuir district
Become , city Become Become an Imperial Abbey Essen , Werden district

Notes on the table:

  • The place names were taken in the historical spelling from the Décret on the division of the Grand Duchy of Berg from 1808 and from a place directory from 1811. Deviating from the decree of 1808, the designations peasant and village were taken from a Prussian municipality directory from 1836.
  • Belonging to the Mairies also comes from the place directory from 1811.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Décret, on the division of the Grand Duchy of Berg, dated November 14, 1808, Law Bülletin, First Department, No. V, pp. 50, 84 ff. ( Düsseldorf State Library )
  2. ^ Düsseldorf address calendar and paperback for business people in the Grand Duchy of Berg, Directory of Mairies, Düsseldorf: Dänzer 1812 ( Düsseldorf State Library )
  3. ^ A b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , JHC Schreinger, 1836, p. 84 ff ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ a b Düsseldorf address calendar and paperback for business people in the Grand Duchy of Berg, division of the Grand Duchy of Berg, Düsseldorf: Dänzer 1811 ( Düsseldorf State Library )