Helmstedt district
The Helmstedt district was an administrative unit in the Oker department in the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 to 1813 , which was formed by the Royal Decree of December 24, 1807.
territory
The Helmstedt district comprised the eastern part of the northern half of the Principality of Wolfenbüttel . Parts of the principality were in the Schöningen and Neuhaldensleben districts of the Elbe department and the Halberstadt district of the Saale department . In addition, from the former Principality of Halberstadt , there was the Weferlingen office to the left of the Aller and to the north of the Bruchgraben the Oschersleben district with some Magdeburg villages.
The Helmstedt district borders on the Lüneburg district to the north, the Aller and Magdeburg districts to the east, the Bruchgraben to the south and the Braunschweig district to the west.
In 1811 lived in 24.6 mi² (= 1354 km²) district 55,577 people, bringing the population density was 2,259 inhabitants / mi².
organization
The district was headed by a sub-prefect. The sub-prefect of the Helmstedt district was the brother of the Hildesheim cathedral dean and Hessian-Darmstadt district president Clemens August von Weichs . His secretary was called Werner.
Messrs. Alburg, Cleve, Gerke, Häberlein, Lehnert, Markwort, Graf von Veltheim and Wrede formed the district council to control the tax lists.
Courts of justice were in Helmstedt (2 peace courts), Königslutter, Schöningen, Warsleben, Hamersleben, Oschersleben, Harbke, Weferlingen, Bardorf, Fallersleben and Vorsfelde.
Cantonal division
The Helmstedt district was divided into 11 cantons with 82 municipalities:
| Canton | Kantonmaire | Residents | Area in mi² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bahrdorf | from Pawel | 4378 | 2.91 |
| Hamersleben | Adolf Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg-Beetzendorf (Wolfsburg Line) | 3,865 | 1.75 |
| Harbke | Röttger Count of Veltheim | 4,818 | 1.53 |
| Helmstedt | Georg Fein sen. (until 1808) Johann August Philipp Ferber (from 1809) |
5,080 | 0.37 |
| Helmstedt-Land | Friedrich Cleve | 3,036 | 2.13 |
| Königslutter | Albrecht | 6,981 | 2.5 |
| Oschersleben | Joachim Christoph Bertram (?) | 4,656 | 1.25 |
| Schöningen | Friedrich-Wilhelm Langenheim | 5,833 | 1.51 |
| Vorsfelde | Christoph Friedrich Ernst zu Nordsteimke | 3,934 | 2.64 |
| Warsleben | Hoffmann (formerly Hofrat zu Hötensleben) | 2,610 | 1.04 |
| Weferlingen | Friedrich August Schuppe (until 1809), from Pawel | 9,444 | 2.71 |
| from 1810 | |||
| Fallersleben | Heinrich Wilhelm Hoffmann | 5,320 | 4.26 |
see also → Directory of the Duchy of Braunschweig in the Kingdom of Westphalia
literature
- 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, pp. 154-164.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Handbook on the Kingdom of Westphalia , on the instruction on land 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, Hemmerde and Schwedtschke, Halle 1808
- ^ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Westphalia , Hahn brothers, Hanover 1811.
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