Canton of Calvörde

Kingdom of Westphalia
Canton of Calvörde
Surname	Canton de Calvörde
department	Department of the Elbe
District	Haldensleben
Capital of the canton	Calvörde
surface	3.96 square miles
Residents	4,933
Villages and hamlets	19th

Contemporary map of the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1809

The Kingdom of Westphalia between 1807 and 1810

The canton Calvörde was an administrative unit in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia and existed from 1807 until the kingdom was dissolved in 1813. It belonged to the Neuhaldensleben district and with this to the department of the Elbe .

The canton roughly comprised the former Brunswick office of Calvörde and the previously Prussian villages around the market town of Calvörde .

AW Vibrans was the mayor of the Commune and the canton of Calvörde.

The following places belonged to the canton:

• Calvörde (canton capital)
• Hünerdorf
• Berenbrock with Elsebeck
• Velsdorf
• Jeseritz with Lössewitz and Parleib
• Flechtingen
• Wieglitz
• Bülstringen
• Böddensell with Grauingen
• Mannhausen
• Etingen
• Wegenstedt
• Hasselburg with Lemsell and Hilgesdorf

Neighboring cantons in the Neuhaldensleben district were Öbisfelde , Walbeck , Groß Ammensleben and Neuhaldensleben .

literature

• Georg Hassel : Statistical repertory on the Kingdom of Westphalia. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1813, online .