Land Commissioner Pirmasens

The Landkommissariat Pirmasens in the Palatinate 1818–1862

The Landkommissariat Pirmasens (officially: Land-Commissariat Pirmasens ) was one of twelve administrative districts in the Bavarian Rhine District (renamed "Kreis Pfalz" in 1837), which existed from 1818 and was renamed in 1862 as the District Office Pirmasens . The administrative area was in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate and today belongs to the independent city of Pirmasens and the district of Südwestpfalz .

Cantons and municipalities

The Landkommissariat Pirmasens was divided into the cantons Dahn , Pirmasens and Waldfischbach and comprised 65 municipalities (all places in the official spelling from 1817):

Canton of Dahn

Bärenbach Bobenthal Bruchweiler Bundenthal Busenberg Dahn Erfweiler

Erlenbach and Lauterschwan Fischbach Hauenstein Hinterweidenthal Hirschthal Ludwigswinkel Niederschlettenbach

Niedersteinbach Nothweiler Obersteinbach Petersbächel Rumbach Schindhard Schönau

Remarks:

1. ↑ ^{a b} The communities Niedersteinbach and Obersteinbach, today part of the canton Wissembourg in Alsace, were ceded to France on July 5, 1825 ( Google Books )

Canton of Pirmasens

Donsieders Eppenbrunn Fehrbach Gersbach Stallion Mountain Help Höh-Eschweiler Hochmühlbach

Creping Lviv Münchweiler Nieder- , Obersimten , Erlenbrunn Nünschweiler and Dusenbrücken Pirmasens Rodalben and Petersberg Ruppertsweiler

Schweix Thalfrogs Thal-Eschweiler Trulben Vinningen Windsberg Tiny

Canton of Waldfischbach

Castle albums Geiselberg Haarsberg Heldersberg Hermersberg Herschberg Hettenhausen

Hocheinöd Horbach Klausen Glue Merzalben Saalstadt Schauerberg

Schopp Schmalenberg Stone albums Election albums Waldfischbach Weselberg Zeselberg

history

On April 30, 1816, the Bavarian King Maximilian Joseph I formally took possession of the area of ​​the Rhine district, which was later established, on the basis of an exchange agreement with the Austrian Emperor Franz I.

From the so-called French era , Bavaria in the Palatinate initially essentially adopted the administrative structure that had been in place since 1798. The newly created Rhine district was divided into four "district directorates", later also called "district directorates". The subordinate administrative levels of the cantons and mayor's offices , apart from minor area adjustments, remained in place. The area of ​​the Landkommissariat Pirmasens belonged to the Donnersberg department ( canton Pirmasens and canton Waldfischbach ) until 1814 and to the Niederrhein department (canton Dahn) until 1815 . After Bavaria took possession and the district directorates were established, the area belonged to the Zweibrücken district directorate.

With effect from April 1, 1818, the districts of the previous four "Bezirks-Directionen" of the Rhine district were redistributed into twelve "Land Commissariats". The scope and responsibilities did not change. Stephan Leonhard Gerlach was appointed "Land Commissary" . The Land Commissioner had an actuary , two clerks and a messenger at his disposal, and salaries and office costs were estimated at 3900 guilders per year.

On July 1, 1862, the state commissioners in the Palatinate received the designation "District Offices", from which in 1938 the districts emerged.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Bavarian government of the Rhine district of November 26, 1817: Announcement of November 17, 1817, cantonal division of the Rhine district ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )
2. ↑ Official Journal for the Kings. Bavarian area on the left bank of the Rhine from July 1, 1816: Possession patent from April 30, 1816 ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )
3. ↑ Official Journal for the Kings. Bavarian area on the left bank of the Rhine from July 25, 1816: Announcement of July 22, 1816, list of the cantons belonging to the district directorates ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )
4. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Bavarian government of the Rhine district of February 18, 1818: Highest Rescript of November 6, 1817, announcement of February 17, 1818, introduction of the Land Commissariate ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )
5. ↑ Royal Bavarian District Official Gazette of the Palatinate of May 22, 1862: Royal Very Highest Ordinance of April 19, 1862, changing the designation of the Land Commissariate of the Palatinate ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )