Arrondissement of Hagen

The Arrondissement of Hagen , also the district of Hagen , was an administrative unit in the Napoleonic satellite state Grand Duchy of Berg from 1808 to 1813 . It was part of the department of the Ruhr .

structure

The arrondissement of Hagen was divided into seven cantons and 191 municipalities. Of these, 14 towns, 1 town, 2 villages and 173 peasants were a generally cited dish. The number of inhabitants was 70,595 in 1808.

• Canton of Hagen . These included the cities of Hagen , Breckerfeld , Herdecke and Wetter , 16 farmers' associations from the Hagen court, 5 farmers from the Breckerfeld court, a total of 26 communities with 12,154 inhabitants.
• Canton Schwelm . This included the town of Schwelm and the spots of Volmarstein , 7 farmers from the Volmarstein court, a total of 19 communities with 12,612 inhabitants
• Canton of Hattingen . These included the cities of Hattingen and Blankenstein , 17 farmers from the previous Brandenburg office of Blankenstein, the Horst court with one farm, 4 farmers from the Bruch court , 6 farmers from the Stiepel court , village and court Herbede with 5 farmers, a total of 37 communities with 8,779 inhabitants
• Canton of Limburg (formerly the County of Limburg ) with the city of Limburg and 20 farmers' associations with 4810 inhabitants
• Canton of Iserlohn . This included the city of Iserlohn and 9 farmers from the Iserlohn office, the Hemer court with 7 farmers, a total of 17 communities with 7,906 inhabitants
• Canton Neuenrade with the towns of Neuenrade , Plettenberg and Altena , 5 farmers' associations from the Neuenrade office, 15 farmers from the Plettenberg office, 4 farmers from the Altena court, a total of 27 municipalities with 10,137 inhabitants
• Canton Lüdenscheid with the cities of Lüdenscheid and Meinerzhagen , 18 farmers' associations from the Lüdenscheid court, 15 farmers from the Meinerzhagen court, a total of 44 communities with 14,827 inhabitants

Neighboring areas

The arrondissement bordered the arrondissement Dortmund , the Grand Duchy of Hesse , the department Sieg and the department Rhine .

Seat and sub-prefect

The seat of the sub-prefect was Hagen. Sub-prefects were:

• Heinrich Wilhelm von Holtzbrinck from 1809 to 1811
• Moritz von Untzer from 1811 to 1813

literature

• Peter Adolph Winkopp : Der Rheinische Bund , Eleventh Volume, 1809, p. 106 ff. ( Google Books )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Décret, on the division of the Grand Duchy of Berg, Gesetz-Bülletin , of November 14, 1808, p. 132 ff. ( Digitized version ).
2. ↑ Bettina Severin-Barboutie: French government policy and modernizing administrative and constitutional reforms in the Grand Duchy of Berg (1806 to 1813) . Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58294-9 , p. 159 ( digitized version ).