Sarre (department)

See also: the Saar

The the Saar was old a French department, named according to the river the Saar ( Saar in German). The territory corresponds today to the part of the Land of the the Saar and part of the the Rhineland-Palatinat, in particular the towns of Trier and Prüm.

History

Before the French conquest, Cisrhénanie was a mosaic of several tens of States, members of the Saint Germanic Roman Empire. Occupied starting from 1794, transitory a République cisrhénane was proclaimed on September 5th, 1797 (a Republic of Mainz had already been to it on March 18th, 1793, requiring its annexation of France the 21 and obtaining it the 30), but the area was divided the November 4th 1797 by the Directoire in four departments, the Roer, the the Saar, the Rhine-and-Moselle and the Mount-Thunder, which were organized the January 23rd 1798 (stopped of the 4 pluviôse year VI). These departments were officially integrated into the French territory the March 9th 1801 and existed until the dismantling of the Empire in 1814.

The the first peace of Paris (1814) fixed the re-establishment of the borders of 1792. However some cantons of the Saar remained French, of which those of Saarbrucken and Sarrelouis. After the new defeat of Napoleon at the time of the Hundred Days, they were attached to the Prussia by the second treaty of Paris (1815). The Prussian chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg took officially possession of the department of the Saar the November 20th 1815.

Geography

The surface of the department was of 493  513 hectares and its population of 273   569 individuals in 1809. The portable Gazetteer of the precise time: “Its territory produces rye, oats, buckwheat, potatoes, little corn, much wood and excellent wines, known under the name of wines of the Moselle; there are mines of iron, copper, lead, pit coal; factories of fabrics; manufactures of files, forgery, tools, sawmills, platineries, edge-tool industries, tinplate, porcelains, paperboards, glassmakings, potteries, breweries; excellent oxen, goat's milk cheeses, pigs, horses, many sheep. ”

Administration

The chief town of the Saar was Trier and its sub-prefectures Birkenfeld, Prum and Saarbrucken.
  • Chief towns of canton of the district of Trier: Bernkastel, Büdlich, Konz, Pfalzel, Saarburg, Schweich, Trier and Wittlich.
  • Chief towns of canton of the district of Birkenfeld: Baumholder, Birkenfeld, Grumbach, Hermeskeil, Herrstein, Kusel, Meisenheim, Rhaunen and Wadern.
  • Chief towns of canton of the district of Prüm: Blankenheim, Daun, Gerolstein, Kyllburg, Lissendorf, Manderscheid, Prum, Reifferscheid and Schönberg.
  • Chief towns of canton of the district of Saarbrucken: Blieskastel, Lebach, Merzig, Ottweiler, Saarbrucken, Sankt Arnual and Waldmohr.

See too

External bonds

  • Stopped relating to the setting in activity of the Constitution in the departments of Roer, of the Saar, of the Rhine-and-Moselle and the Mount-Thunder
  • Constitution of year X - 1802
  • Chart of the old French departments of North and the East

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