Sarre (department)

The Département de la Sarre (German Saar Department ) is a former French Territory, which was established after the conquest of the left bank of the Rhine German territories by the French revolutionary armies (1794 ) in 1798: Under international law, was the assignment by the Peace of Luneville on February 9 1801. It stretched from the northern Eifel at Blankenheim up in today's Saarland. The largest part of the comprehensive 4935 square kilometer area previously belonged to the Electorate of Trier. The population was 273 569 inhabitants (1809 ).

Administration

The Prefecture of the Département de la Sarre was in Trier. It was divided into the arrondissements

• Trier ( Treves ) with the cantons: Bernkastel, Büdlich, Konz, Pfalzel, Saar castle, Schweich, Trier and Wittlich,

• Birkenfeld with the cantons: Baumholder, Birkenfeld, Grumbach, Hermes wedge, Herrnstein, Kusel, Meis Home, Rhaunen and Wadern

• Prüm ( Prum ) with the cantons: Blankenheim, down, Gerolstein, Wilsecker, Lissendorf, Manderscheid, Prüm, Reifferscheid and Schoenberg,

• Saarbrücken ( Sarrebruck ) with the cantons: Arnual, Blieskastel, Lebach, Merzig, Ottweiler, Saarbrücken, Sankt Wendel and forest Mohr.

List of Prefects

Resolution of the department

After the expulsion of the French at the beginning of 1814 in the course of the wars of liberation and finally after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Saar Department came almost entirely to the Kingdom of Prussia. Meanwhile, the Canton Kusel large parts of the arrondissement of Birkenfeld as the Principality of Birkenfeld to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg ( 1817), the cantons Sankt Wendel and Baumholder ( fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria (1816 ), initially under the name " rule Baumholder " (1816 ), later in Principality of Lichtenberg renamed after the castle Lichtenberg) of Saxe-Coburg -Saalfeld and Canton Meisenheim as Oberamt Meisenheim (1816 ) to the Hesse- Homburg.