Canton of Amöneburg
| Kingdom of Westphalia | |
|---|---|
| Canton of Amöneburg | |
| department | Department of the Werra |
| District | District of Marburg |
| surface | 2.13 square miles |
| Residents | 5,726 |
| Villages and hamlets | 14th |
| Cities | 1 |
The canton Amöneburg was an administrative unit in the Marburg district of the Werra department in the Napoleonic kingdom of Westphalia . The seat of the canton administration was the small town of Amöneburg in what is now the Marburg-Biedenkopf district .
The canton comprised 14 villages and one city, had 5,726 residents, and an area of 2.13 square miles .
The following localities belonged to the canton:
- City of Amöneburg with the Badenhauser Hof,
- Bauerbach ,
- Beltershausen with the Cappeler Hof ,
- Erfurtshausen ,
- Ginseldorf ,
- Großseelheim ,
- Kleinseelheim ,
- Mardorf ,
- Moischt with Hahnerheide and Hohenhauss,
- Rauischholzhausen ,
- Rossdorf ,
- Schönbach ,
- Schröck ,
- Wittelsberg .
Notes and individual references
- ↑ "Royal Decree, whereby the division of the kingdom into eight departments is ordered" . "Directory of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom". In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Hrsg.): Project Westphalian history . S. 203 ( PDF 4.9MB [accessed April 26, 2009]).
- ↑ Friedrich Justin Bertuch (ed.): General geographical ephemeris . With charts and copper. Volume six and thirtieth. Publishers of the Landes-Industrie-Comtoir, Weimar 1911, p. 61 ( PDF 19.2MB [accessed April 26, 2009]).