Canton of Endorf

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Kingdom of Westphalia
Canton of Endorf
department Department of the Saale
Arrondissement Hall
Capital of the canton Endorf
surface 2.04 square miles
Residents 5,647
Villages and hamlets 11

The canton of Endorf was an administrative unit in the Halle district of the Saale department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . The main town of the canton and seat of the justice of the peace was Endorf in today's district of Harz . The canton comprised 11 parishes and several hamlets , was inhabited by 5,647 people and had an area of ​​2.04 square miles . He emerged from the Saxon-Mansfeld office of Arnstein .

The localities belonging to the canton were:

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Friedrich Justin Bertuch (Ed.): General geographical ephemeris . With charts and copper. Volume six and thirtieth. Publishers of the Landes-Industrie-Comtoir, Weimar 1811, p. 57 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed December 27, 2011]).
  2. 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 (Hrsg.): Project Westphalian history . 1807, p. 197 ( PDF 4.9MB [accessed December 27, 2011]).
  3. 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. 212 ( full text in Google Book Search).