Mont-Tonnerre
Sign in to saveMont-Tonnerre () was a department of the First French Republic and later the First French Empire in present-day Germany. It was named after the highest point in the Palatinate, the Donnersberg ("Thunder Mountain", possibly referring to Donar, god of thunder). It was the southernmost of four departments formed in 1797 when the west bank of the Rhine was annexed by France. Prior to the French occupation, its territory was divided between the Archbishopric of Mainz, the Bishopric of Speyer, the Bishopric of Worms, Nassau-Weilburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, the Electorate of the Palatinate and the imperial
Key facts
- Former subdivision.conventional_long_name
- Department of Mont-Tonnerre
- Former subdivision.common_name
- Mont-Tonnerre
- Former subdivision.year_start
- 1797
- Former subdivision.year_end
- 1814
- Former subdivision.capital
- Mainz
- Former subdivision.flag
- Flag of France
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- Mont-Tonnerre departement (1812).svg
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- Location of Mont-Tonnerre in France (1812)
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- Department
- Former subdivision.nation
- the First French Republic
- Former subdivision.p1
- Electorate of Mainz
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- Banner of the Electorate of Mainz.svg
- Former subdivision.p2
- Prince-Bishopric of Speyer
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- Wappen Bistum Speyer.png
- Former subdivision.border_p2
- no
- Former subdivision.p3
- Prince-Bishopric of Worms
- Former subdivision.flag_p3
- Wappen Bistum Worms.png
- Former subdivision.border_p3
- no
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Mont-Tonnerre () was a department of the First French Republic and later the First French Empire in present-day Germany. It was named after the highest point in the Palatinate, the Donnersberg ("Thunder Mountain", possibly referring to Donar, god of thunder). It was the southernmost of four departments formed in 1797 when the west bank of the Rhine was annexed by France. Prior to the French occupation, its territory was divided between the Archbishopric of Mainz, the Bishopric of Speyer, the Bishopric of Worms, Nassau-Weilburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, the Electorate of the Palatinate and the imperial cities of Worms and Speyer. After Napoleon was defeated in 1814, the department was divided between the Kingdom of Bavaria (Palatinate) and the Grand Duchy of Hesse (around Mainz).
Its territory is now part of the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. Its capital was Mainz ().
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mont-Tonnerre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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