Braunschweig district
The district Braunschweig was from 1807 to 1813 an administrative unit in the department of the Oker in the Kingdom of Westphalia , which was formed by the "Royal Decree" of 24 December. 1807
territory
The Braunschweig district consisted of the northern half of the former Principality of Wolfenbüttel - some places have been added to other districts -, some places in the Schöningisches District and the northernmost area of Hildesheim , mostly along the Fuhse .
The district was bounded in the north by Hanover, east of a line from Glentorf in the north to the border between the cantons of Königslutter and Schöningen , leaving these cities on the left, to Bruchgraben, south of Bruchgraben and the Goslar district , which until then was the border to Hildesheim people up to the village of Ölper .
organization
The district was headed by a sub-prefect. The sub-prefect of the Braunschweig district was also the chief prefect of the Oker department.
The district council to control the tax lists was formed by Messrs. Niehoff, von Bülow, Dietrichs, von Kalm, Koch, Krause Meibom, Graf von Oberg, Rinkendorf, Stähler and Thilau.
Courts of the peace were in Braunschweig (five), Peine (two), Lafferde, Bettmar, Gebhardshagen, Salder, Rötgesbüttel, Wendhausen, Kremlingen, Schöppenstedt and Jerxheim.
Cantonal division
The Braunschweig district was divided into 19 cantons with 148 municipalities:
| Canton | Kantonmaire | Residents | mi² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bettmar | Wachsmuth | 4.015 | 1.19 |
| Braunschweig | Wilhelm August Christian Freiherr von Mahrenholtz (until 1809),
Friedrich Ludwig von Münchhausen (from 1809) |
28,481 | 0.65 |
| Braunschweig-Land (East) | Jeanvré (in Riddagshausen ) | 3,887 | 2.28 |
| Braunschweig-Land (West) | Harten (in Vechelde ) | 5.134 | 1.68 |
| Gebhardshagen | Nehrkorn (?) Johann Friedrich Süpke | 3,339 | 1.13 |
| Jerxheim | Johann Christian Heinrich Fritsch (to Groß Winnigstedt ) | 5,294 | 2.44 |
| Kremlins | August Wilhelm von Thilau | 3,660 | 1.75 |
| Loaf soil | Johann Heinrich Andreas Burgdorff ( Groß Lafferde ) | 4,699 | 1.1 |
| Lesse | Carl August Adolph von Cramm | 3,828 | 0.87 |
| Torment | Ernst Friedrich Hübetter (Hübotter) (until 1813) Franz Elfen (from 1813) |
4,306 | 0.63 |
| Peine-Land | Petersen (in Meerdorf ) | 2,976 | 1.56 |
| Remlingen | Dietrichs | 4,323 | 2.15 |
| Balancing | Heinrich (?) | 4,205 | 0.98 |
| Schöppenstedt | Johann Andreas Böckel (former mayor) | 5,182 | 1.55 |
| Wendhausen | August by Egidy (?) | 3,420 | 2.25 |
| Wolfenbüttel-Land (West) | Niehoff (in Immendorf ) | 3,744 | 1.69 |
| Wolfenbüttel-Land (East) | Johann Erich Philipp von Lauingen (in Wendessen ) (?) | 3,471 | 1.57 |
| Wolfenbüttel | Drost Johann Georg Konrad Räber von Rodenberg | 6,733 | 0.17 |
| from 1810 | |||
| Rötgesbüttel | Ludwig Carl Friedrich von Holle (?) | 5,253 | 5.42 |
literature
- Royal decree of December 7, 1807, which decrees the publication of the constitution of the Kingdom of Westphalia in: Rob K., Government files of the Kingdom of Westphalia 1807–1813, (= sources on the reforms in the reunification states, vol. I), Munich 1992. , ( online ).
- Royal decree ordering the division of the kingdom into eight departments . List of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. In: Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Vol. I (1807) No. 6 . ( PDF 4.9MB [accessed March 30, 2013]).
- Royal decree of May 17, 1808 concerning the division of the city of Braunschweig into three cantons , in: Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, vol. II (1808) No. 36.
- Royal decree of January 5, 1813, by which the Commune Fürstenau, in the Land-Canton Peine, District Braunschweig, Oker-Department, repealed and united with the Commune Sophienthal, in the same Canton, District and Department , in: Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Vol VII (1813) No. 1.
- Dorothea Puhle, Das Herzogtum Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel in the Kingdom of Westphalia , (= supplements to the Braunschweigischer Jahrbuch, vol. 5), Braunschweig 1989.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia. At the Hahn brothers, Hanover 1811
- ↑ Handbook on the Kingdom of Westphalia. For information about the country and its inhabitants, the 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. Bey Hemmerde and Schwedtschke, Halle 1808
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