Department of the Leine
| Department of the Leine | |
| Linen department | |
| Department de la Leine | |
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| Consist: | December 1, 1807-1813 |
| Kingdom : | Westphalen |
| Prefecture : | Goettingen |
| Residents: | 234,661 (1810) |
| Structure: | 3 districts |
| Prefects : |
Friedrich Freiherr von Hövel (beginning of 1808 – September 1808) Johann August Wilhelm Frantz (October 1808 – March 1811) Daniel Heinrich Delius (from April 1811) |
| Location of the department in the Kingdom of Westphalia | |
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The department leash ( Département de la Leine ) or linen department was from 1807 to 1813/14 one of eight department 's called administrative units of the kingdom of Westphalia . This department covered an area from the Werra via Göttingen, Einbeck and Rinteln to the Weser north of Minden.
history
On December 1, 1807, the Leine department was formed from the Principality of Göttingen , from part of the Principality of Grubenhagen , part of the states of Hildesheim, Braunschweig and Hesse. The main town of the department was Göttingen.
On September 1, 1810, the rest of the Duchy of Hanover came to the Department of the Leine. It was the Haemel quarter of the Principality of Calenberg, located between the districts of Hanover ( Department of Aller ), Hildesheim ( Department of Oker ) and Einbeck .
The districts of Göttingen and Einbeck remained unchanged. The district of Rinteln now consisted of the above-mentioned part of Calenberg, the rule Spiegelberg , the canton of Ottenstein (from the district of Höxter from the department of Fulda ) and the cantons of Rinteln and Oldendorf (from the district of Rinteln from the department of the Weser ). Sachsenhagen , Obernkirchen , Rodenberg and Freudenberg came from the Rinteln district to the Aller department .
Emperor Napoleon drew a line northwest of the Weser, Werre, Johannisbach and Schwarzbach. He annexed the area north of this line, up to the coast, in order to bring his continental barrier under better control. The Hanseatic departments came into being . Then came on January 1, 1811, the districts of Rinteln, without the exclaves and the areas to the right of the Weser, to the French department of the Upper Ems . The canton of Halle was no longer listed in the Einbeck district .
State in 1811:
In 1810, the department of the Leine was about 74 square miles or 225 Lieues (French way hours) or 1,631,121 Brunswick acres. If you add the square miles to 55 km², you get a total area of 4070 km². The population is given as of December 31, 1810 as 233,027. They lived in 19 cities, 22 market towns, five suburbs, 526 villages, 96 hamlets and 222 individual buildings with a total of 174,486 fire pits. The 58,541 city dwellers were compared to 174,486 rural dwellers. The department consisted of three districts, 42 cantons, 362 municipalities, 34 canton mairies and 42 justice courts. The court of appeal was in Cassel. The capital was Göttingen.
- The Göttingen district had 83,416 inhabitants and covered 1312.5 km² in seven cities, five market areas, 179 villages, 17 hamlets and 84 individual buildings with a total of 12,435 fire places, or in eight cantons and 145 municipalities. The district capital was Göttingen.
- The district of Einbeck had 73,979 inhabitants and covered 1155 km² in six cities, six market areas, three suburbs, 157 villages, 41 hamlets and 81 individual buildings with a total of 9581 fire pits or 14 cantons and 101 municipalities. The district capital was Einbeck.
The Kingdom of Westphalia was divided into departments, the departments into districts, the latter into cantons and the latter into municipalities.
| District | Cantons | ||
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| Goettingen | Göttingen , Grone , Jühnde , Friedland , Dransfeld , Bremke , Radolfshausen , Bovenden , Northeim , Adelebsen , Hardegsen , Moringen , Harste , Nienover , Uslar , Bodenfelde , Blume and Nörten . | ||
| Einbeck | Einbeck , Einbeck Land , Markoldendorf , Dassel , Rotenkirchen , Westerhof , Seesen , Gandersheim , Greene , Delligsen , Eschershausen , Halle , Stadtoldendorf , Holzminden and Fürstenberg | ||
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| Hameln from 1811: Rinteln |
Rinteln , Oldendorf , Hameln , Aerzen , Münder , Hemmendorf , Bodenwerder and Börry
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The prefectures
The department of the Leine had its seat in Michaelishaus (Göttingen) . It was directed by the prefects:
- Friedrich Freiherr von Hövel (beginning of 1808 – September 1808); supported by his secretary Joseph Piautaz
- Johann August Wilhelm Frantz (October 1808 – March 1811)
- Daniel Heinrich Delius (from April 1811)
The council meeting included Messrs Westfeld, Baron von Grote and Westphal.
The council meeting of the sub-prefect of Göttingen in 1810 included Christiani, Ludewig, Sedchenchen, Piautaz, Gleim, von Grote, von Goetz, Koch, Ransen and von Seebach, in 1811 Count von Hardenberg (president) Bornemann, Bötticher, Ernst, Goetz, von Oldenhausen, John , Lüder, von Mansberg, Scheidemann, Tuckermann , von Wangenheim, Wedemeyer, Wagemann, Bode and von Campen,
There were other sub-prefects in
- Einbeck: the sub-prefect Carl Friedrich Pini with his secretary Walter,
- Rinteln (1811): the sub-prefect Moritz Maria Elmerhaus Freiherr von Haxthausen with his secretary Schwarzenberg
Postmaster in the department of the Leine
The Kingdom of Westphalia had postal sovereignty in the country (see postal history of the Kingdom of Westphalia ).
Goettingen
- Dransfeld expedition: Millenhausen (1810-1813)
- Göttingen Director 1st class: d'Hinüber (1810–1813), Controleur: Henneberg (1810), Creutzer (1811), Neinke (1812–1813)
- Hardegsen expedition: Suhr (1810–1813)
- Moringen shipping agent: Meyer, fils (1810–1813)
- Nörten shipping agent: Panse (1810–1813)
- Uslar expedition: Thiel (1810–1813)
Einbeck
- Dassel expedition: Bertram (1810–1813)
- Einbeck Director 3rd class: Grevenstein (1810–1813), Woelker (1810–1811), Controleur
- Eschershausen expedition agent: Knüll (1810–1813)
- Fürstenberg expeditor: Lungeshausen (1810–1813)
- Gandersheim Director of Expeditor: Strube (1810)
- Greene Expeditor: Kircher (1810-1813)
- Holzminden Raabe, director 3rd class: (1810–1813)
- Markoldendorf Expeditioner: Kaennichen (1810–1813)
- Seesen Director 3rd Class: Austria (1810–1813)
- Stadtoldendorf Expeditioner: Meyer (1810–1813)
Rinteln
- Wickensen (Eschershausen) Shipping agent: Mittendorf (1810–1813)
- Mühlenbeck expedition: Metgen (1810)
- Nordheim Director 2nd class: De Bobers (1810–1813)
literature
- Almanach royal de Westphalie , Kassel: L´Imprimerie Royal, 1810 to 1813.
- Kgl. Decree ordering the division of the kingdom into eight departments . Cassel, December 24, 1807.
- Handbook on the Kingdom of Westphalia for information about the country and inhabitants, constitution, administration and external conditions of the state in general and its individual parts in particular, together with a list of the most distinguished court and state officials. Halle, bey Hemmerde and Schwetschke 1808
- Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia. Hanover, at the Hahn brothers, 1811 (digitized version)
- Special atlas of the Kingdom of Westphalia consisting of eight departmental and one general chart on the highest royal level. Order according to official sources , Weimar, Verlag des Geographisches Institut, 1811 (scale approx. 1: 280,000)
- Friedrich Justin Bartuch: General Geographical Ephemeris , written by a society of scholars, Weimar, different years. - Volume 36: Hassel, Georg: Statistical inventory of the Kingdom of Westphalia , 1811.
- Peter Adolph Winkopp : The Rheinische Bund , a magazine historical-political-static-geographical content, Mohr, Frankfurt am Main 1810, different years.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia, Hanover, from the Hahn brothers, 1811.
- ^ Almanach royal de Westphalie ”, Cassel, 1810-1813
