The Rhine-and-Moselle

The department of the Rhine-and-Moselle is old a French department of left bank of the the Rhine, named locally Rhein-und-Mosel .

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.

Geography

The chief town was Coblentz, and the two sub-prefectures Bonn and Simmern.

Its population was of 248 814 inhabitants in 1809. The portable Gazetteer of the precise time: “The country is fertile in grains, good wines, wood and pastures; one finds in his mountains of the mines of iron, lead, calamine, copper, money and gold; quarries stone for the dams and masonries under water, marble and slate; saltworks and mineral water. The trade consists in the productions of the ground; it made there a considerable profit on the transit of the goods on the Rhine and the Moselle; one exports a great quantity of white wines and red wines.”

The area seems to have benefitted from the annexation to direct itself towards a better stock management of the basement and an intensive industrialization: for example, Bonn saw the installation of 25 important companies between 1803 and 1813.

Administration

Chief towns of canton of the district of Coblentz: Coblentz, Andernach, Boppard, Cochem, Kaisersesch, Lutzerath, Mayen, Münstermaifeld, Polch, Rübenach, Treis and Zell.
Chief towns of canton of the district of Bonn: Bonn (2 cantons), Adenau, Ahrweiler, Remagen, Rheinbach, Virneburg and Wehr.
Chief towns of canton of the district of Simmern: Simmern, Bacharach, Kastellaun, Kirchberg (Hunsrück), Kirn, Bad Kreuznach, Sankt Goar, Bad Sobernheim, Stromberg and Trarbach.

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

Another direction

In addition, without any connection with the department above, the Rhine-and-Moselle was the name of a network of Assurance S, created in 1881, and which sat at Strasbourg.

The denomination of the network during the period of annexation of the Alsace-Lorraine to the German Empire (until in 1918), remains to be specified.

This network, which also had an important housing stock, preserved its independence until in 1991, date on which it passed under the control of Allianz-France (subsidiary of the Bavarian group). In 1998, two tender offer, one hostile, the other friendly one, led to a catch of majority stake of the Allianz group in the general Assurances of France (AGF), then with the progressive fusion of the Rhine-and-Moselle in the “new AGF”, with disappearance gradually of the denomination “the Rhine-and-Moselle” progressively of the renewal of the contracts.

See too

List of the 130 departments of 1811

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