Canton of Zweibrücken

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The canton Zweibrücken (also Canton Zweybrücken ; French: Canton de Deux-Ponts ) was one of eight administrative units in which the Arrondissement Zweibrücken (French: Arrondissement de Deux-Pont ) in the Donnersberg (French: Département du Mont- Tonnerre ) 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 ) was Zweibrücken .

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 mainly comprised the present independent city of Zweibrücken and parts of the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarpfalz district in Saarland .

Parishes and mairies

According to an official table from 1811, the following municipalities belonged to the canton of Zweibrücken, 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
Battweiler Winterbach 200 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Bubenhausen Two bridges Pfalz-Zweibrücken since 1926 district of Zweibrücken
Contwig Contwig 1,100 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Dellfeld Contwig 350 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Einöd and Ingweiler Desolate 503 Pfalz-Zweibrücken since 1974 district of Homburg
Ernstweiler Two bridges Pfalz-Zweibrücken since 1926 district of Zweibrücken
Ixheim Desolate 448 Pfalz-Zweibrücken since 1938 district of Zweibrücken
Knopp Winterbach 294 Reign of Sickingen today the municipality of Knopp-Labach
Maßweiler Maßweiler 415 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Niederauerbach Contwig 650 Pfalz-Zweibrücken since 1938 district of Zweibrücken
Niederhausen Winterbach 180 Pfalz-Zweibrücken since 1969 district of Winterbach
Oberauerbach Contwig 597 Pfalz-Zweibrücken since 1972 district of Zweibrücken
Oberhausen Schmittshausen 248 Pfalz-Zweibrücken since 1972 district of Wallhalben
Reifenberg Schmittshausen 300 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Rieschweiler Maßweiler 432 Pfalz-Zweibrücken since 1969 district of Rieschweiler-Mühlbach
Schmittshausen Schmittshausen 300 Pfalz-Zweibrücken today the community of Schmitshausen
Stambach Contwig 80 Pfalz-Zweibrücken since 1969 district of Contwig
Winterbach Winterbach 240 Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Two bridges Two bridges 6,200 Pfalz-Zweibrücken Zweibrücken , residents including Bubenhausen and Ernstweiler

history

Before the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the French Revolutionary Wars (1794), the villages of the administrative district of the Canton of Zweibrücken established in 1798 belonged almost entirely to the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , one place belonged to the left bank of the Rhine of the princes of Nassau-Weilburg and one place was an imperial knighthood Property of the Counts of Sickingen .

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 Zweibrücken belonged to the arrondissement of Zweibrücken in the Donnersberg department . Initially, only the city of Zweibrücken and the suburbs of Bubenhausen and Ernstweiler and Tschifflik (status 1798) belonged to the canton of Zweibrücken . Most of the municipalities from the dissolved canton Contwig were later added to the canton of Zweibrücken . Thereafter, the canton of Zweibrücken consisted of 19 municipalities, which were assigned to six Mairies . Around 1801 there were 12,306 inhabitants in the canton, including 3,538 Catholics, 8,668 Protestants, 76 Mennonites and 25 Jews.

After the Allies regained possession of the Left Bank of the Rhine in January 1814 , in February 1814 the Donnersberg department and with it the canton of Zweibrücken became part of the provisional Central Rhine General Government . 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 of Zweibrücken

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 of Zweibrücken belonged in the newly created Rhine district to the district of Zweibrücken formed from the previous arrondissement. In 1817 the municipalities of Hengstbach , Mimbach , Mittelbach , Wattweiler and Webenheim were annexed to the canton of Zweibrücken from the dissolved canton of Medelsheim .

After the subdivision of the districts into land commissioners (1818), the canton Zweibrücken belonged to the land commissioner of the same name , to which the cantons Blieskastel and Neuhornbach also belonged. In 1852 the canton of Zweibrücken, like all cantons in the Palatinate, was converted into a district municipality.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 291 ( 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. 163 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ a b Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts , Volume 9, Frankfurt: Sauerländer, 1832, pp. 318, 381, 389 ( online at Google Books )
  4. ^ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts , Volume 9, Frankfurt: Sauerländer, 1832, p. 381, incorrectly names Nassau-Weilburg (confuses the place with Niederhausen an der Appel)
  5. ↑ 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, 65, 71 ( Google Books )
  6. ↑ a b Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the king. bayer. Rheinkreises , Fourth Part, Speier: Neidhard, 1837, p. 11 ( Google Books )
  7. ↑ Michael Frey: Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Fourth Part, Appendix, Speier: Neidhard, 1837, p. 12 ( Google Books )
  8. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff. ( dilibri.de )
  9. ↑ 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 )
  10. ↑ District u. Landraths Act of May 28, 1852, Beck, 1856, p. 3 ( Google Books )