Stendal district

Stendal district

Basic data
Consist:	1807-1813
Kingdom :	Westphalen
Department :	Department of the Elbe
Prefecture :	Stendal
Prefects :	Leopold Christian Wilhelm Johann Graf von der Schulenburg-Bodendorf
Structure:	14 cantons
Residents:	55,175 (1811)
Surface:	39.75 square miles

The district of Stendal was an administrative unit in the department of the Elbe in the Kingdom of Westphalia . It was formed by the Royal Decree of December 24, 1807 and existed until 1813.

In the district with the main town of Stendal lived 1811 55.575 people on 39.75 mi² . It comprised 7 cities , 217 villages , 61 hamlets and 45 wastelands with 9005 households. Of the creed, 173 people were Catholic, 279 Reformed and 183 Jewish. The rest of the population had an evangelical creed.

The district largely comprised the districts of Stendal , Tangermünde , Arneburg , Seehausen , Salzwedel and Arendsee in the Mark Brandenburg .

organization

The district was headed by the sub-prefect Leopold Christian Wilhelm Johann Graf von der Schulenburg-Bodendorf .

District Council

Members of the district council were the gentlemen:

from Bismark
from Bornstädt
Giesecke
Kruger
Möhring
Siebmann
from Werdeck
Wollmer

Cantonal division

On December 24, 1807, the district was divided into 13 cantons, which comprised 119 communities, inhabited by 50,799 people. In 1811 the district comprised 14 cantons with 139 municipalities. The cantons of Osterburg and Osterburg-Land were merged to form the canton of Osterburg after the administrative reform in 1810 .

Canton (main town)	Kantonmaire	population	Area in mi²
Burgstall	Mr. Mitter-Schönberg on Schwarzlosen	2387	3.25
Greaves	Herr von Roth zu Köchte	2640	3.31
Tangermünde	Herr von Roth zu Köchte	5015	2.07
Luderitz	Mr. Mitter-Schönberg on Schwarzlosen	3259	3.96
Stendal	Lord of Bismark	7111	2.32
Stendal country	Lord of Bismark	3017	2.43
Bismark	Mr. von Hetze zu Berckau	3727	2.54
Channel	Herr von Bülow zu Schwechten	2829	2.56
Arneburg	Mr. Tromme	4432	3.38
Advertise	Mr. Ebel	4579	3.12
Osterburg country
Osterburg
Seehausen		5444	2.66
New cantons after the administrative reform of 1810
Osterburg (new)	Mr. von Bock	5358	3.75
Bretsche	Herr von der Schulenburg	2900	2.06
Pollitz	Herr von der Schulenburg	2874	2.32

literature

Royal decree ordering the division of the kingdom into eight departments . List of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Ed.): Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Vol. I (1807) No. 6 . 1807 ( online [PDF; 4.9 MB ; accessed on January 2, 2014]).
Friedrich Justin Bertuch (ed.): General geographical ephemeris . With charts and copper. Volume six and thirtieth. Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comtoirs, Weimar 1811 ( full text in the Google book search [accessed on January 2, 2014]).
Handbook about 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. Hemmerde und Schwedtschke, Halle 1808 ( full text in the Google book search [accessed on January 2, 2014]).
Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Westphalia . Gebrüder Hahn, Hannover 1811 ( full text in the Google book search [accessed on January 2, 2014]).

Individual evidence

↑ Karl Ferdinand Weiland: General-Charte of the Kingdom of Westphalia: at the same time as Tableau d'Assamblage for the royal. Command published Department Atlas, and to be used as a complete post-chart of the kingdom . Ed .: Institute of Geography. Weimar 1812 ( digitized version of the ULB Münster [PDF; 2.9 MB ; accessed on March 18, 2018]).
↑ ^a ^b Royal Decree, which orders the division of the kingdom into eight departments . List of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Ed.): Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Vol. I (1807) No. 6 . S. 71 ff . ( online [PDF; 4.9 MB ; accessed on January 2, 2014]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Friedrich Justin Bertuch (Ed.): General geographical ephemeris . With charts and copper. Volume six and thirtieth. Publishers of the Landes-Industrie-Comtoir, Weimar 1811, p. 23 f . ( Full text in Google Book Search [accessed January 2, 2014]).
↑ 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. Hemmerde and Schwedtschke, Halle 1808, p. 177 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed January 2, 2014]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia . Hahn brothers, Hanover 1811, p. 156 f . ( Full text in Google Book Search [accessed January 2, 2014]).
^ Bulletin of the Lois du Royaume de Westphalie. Law Bulletin of the Kingdom of Westphalia . No. 25 , June 2, 1813, pp. 59 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed March 12, 2018]).
^ Directory of confirmations of nobility in the former Kingdom of Westphalia . In: Der Deutsche Herold: Journal for coat of arms, seal and family history . tape 6 , 1875, p. 135 ( full text in Google Book Search).

[General-Charte-1] Karl Ferdinand Weiland: General-Charte of the Kingdom of Westphalia: at the same time as Tableau d'Assamblage for the royal. Command published Department Atlas, and to be used as a complete post-chart of the kingdom . Ed .: Institute of Geography. Weimar 1812 ( digitized version of the ULB Münster [PDF; 2.9 MB ; accessed on March 18, 2018]).

[decret1807-2] Royal Decree, which orders the division of the kingdom into eight departments . List of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Ed.): Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Vol. I (1807) No. 6 . S. 71 ff . ( online [PDF; 4.9 MB ; accessed on January 2, 2014]).

[bertuch-3] Friedrich Justin Bertuch (Ed.): General geographical ephemeris . With charts and copper. Volume six and thirtieth. Publishers of the Landes-Industrie-Comtoir, Weimar 1811, p. 23 f . ( Full text in Google Book Search [accessed January 2, 2014]).

[4] 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. Hemmerde and Schwedtschke, Halle 1808, p. 177 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed January 2, 2014]).

[hsh156-5] Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia . Hahn brothers, Hanover 1811, p. 156 f . ( Full text in Google Book Search [accessed January 2, 2014]).

[Bulletin-6] Bulletin of the Lois du Royaume de Westphalie. Law Bulletin of the Kingdom of Westphalia . No. 25 , June 2, 1813, pp. 59 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed March 12, 2018]).

[Herold-7] Directory of confirmations of nobility in the former Kingdom of Westphalia . In: Der Deutsche Herold: Journal for coat of arms, seal and family history . tape 6 , 1875, p. 135 ( full text in Google Book Search).