Canton of Bielefeld

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Kingdom of Westphalia
Canton of Bielefeld
department Department of the Weser (until 1810)
Department of the Fulda
District Bielefeld district
Capital of the canton Bielefeld
Cities 1 (Bielefeld)

The canton of Bielefeld was an administrative unit in the Osnabrück district of the Weser department in the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 to 1813 at the time of Napoléon Bonaparte . After the annexation of the areas west of the Weser by the French Empire , the canton belonged to the Fulda department from 1812 to 1813 . Bielefeld was the capital of the canton and seat of the justice of the peace . The canton only included the city of Bielefeld as a municipality .

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 (Hrsg.): Project Westphalian history . 1807 ( PDF 4.9MB [accessed October 15, 2015]).

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Royal Decree, which ordered the division of the kingdom into eight departments . List of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Hrsg.): Project Westphalian history . S. 221 ( PDF 4.9MB [accessed October 15, 2015]).
  2. ↑ Beckmann, Karl / Künnemeyer, Rolf: 1151-2001 Brackwede - Stations in an 850-year history. Publisher Thomas P. Kiper. Bielefeld 2001, p. 120ff