Canton of Burgstall

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Canton of Burgstall in the Salzwedel district of the Department of the Elbe (from Special Atlas of the Kingdom of Westphalia: consisting of eight departmental and one general chart: 7: chart of the department of the Elbe in the Kingdom of Westphalia. )

The canton Burgstall (also Canton Burgstall ) was an administrative unit in the Kingdom of Westphalia . It existed from 1807 to the dissolution of the kingdom in 1813 and, according to the administrative structure, belonged to the Stendal district of the Elbe department . The canton capital ( chef-lieu ) was Burgstall in the Börde district (Saxony-Anhalt).

history

With the formation of the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807, administrative reforms were also carried out in the new areas of the kingdom. From the Altmark and Duchy of Magdeburg areas ceded by Prussia in 1807 as a result of the Peace of Tilsit and smaller areas ceded by the Kingdom of Saxony, the Elbe department was formed, which was divided into four districts ( Magdeburg , Neuhaldensleben , Stendal and Salzwedel ). The Stendal district (or sub-prefecture Stendal) consisted of 13 cantons ( cantons ), including the Canton Burgstall. The following belonged to the canton of Burgstall in 1807:

Before / until 1807, the places belonged to the Tangermündescher Kreis of the Mark Brandenburg . In 1808 the canton of Burgstall had 2,467 inhabitants. Until 1810, the canton was merged with the canton Lüderitz or was administered together with this canton in personal union. Kantonmaire was a Mr. Mitter-Schönberg von Schwarzlosen, the united new canton had 5646 inhabitants. In 1811 the canton of Burgstall (again without the canton of Lüderitz) had 2387 inhabitants. The size was given as 3.25 square miles.

With the collapse of the Kingdom of Westphalia after the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , the previous Prussian administrative structure was restored (e.g. the Burgstall office , to which part of the towns in the canton of Burgstall belonged). In the district reform of 1816, the Burgstall office came to the Wolmirstedt district .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Special atlas of the Kingdom of Westphalia: consisting of eight departmental and one general chart: 7: Chart of the department of the Elbe of the Kingdom of Westphalia: designed and published by the highest royal orders. Publishing house of the geographical institute, Weimar 1812 UrMEL Thuringian University and State Library
  2. ^ Directory of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Volume 1, Elbe-Departement (separate count), pp. 1–26, Cassel / Kassel 1808. Canton Burgstall, p. 14
  3. ↑ Latest regional and ethnographic studies: A geographical reader for all classes. Sixth volume, Holland and Westphalia. 377 p., Verlag des geographischen Institut, Weimar, 1808 Google Books , p. 338.
  4. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia. Hahn brothers, Hannover 1811 Google Books p. 156.
  5. ^ Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel: Statistical Repertory on the Kingdom of Westphalia. Friedrich Vieweg, Braunschweig 1813, Google Books , p. 7.
  6. ↑ Friedrich Justin Bertuch (ed.): General geographical ephemeris. With charts and copper. Volume six and thirtieth. 511 pp., Im Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, Weimar 1811, p. 23 (full text on Google Books) .
  7. ^ Karl von Seydlitz: The administrative district of Magdeburg: Geographical, statistical and topographical manual. 209 p., Ferdinand Rubach, Magdeburg, 1820.

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '  N , 11 ° 42'  E