Canton of Frankenau
| Kingdom of Westphalia | |
|---|---|
| Canton of Frankenau | |
| department | Department of the Werra |
| District | District of Marburg |
| surface | 2.19 square miles |
| Residents | 3,766 |
| Villages and hamlets | 11 |
| Cities | 1 |
The canton Frankenau was an administrative unit in the Marburg district of the Werra department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . The seat of the cantonal administration was the small town of Frankenau in today's Waldeck-Frankenberg district .
The canton comprised 11 villages and a city, was inhabited by 3,766 people and had an area of 2.19 square miles .
The canton included:
- the city of Frankenau and the villages
- Dainrode ,
- Ederbringhausen with the Treisbach farm,
- Ellershausen with Allendorf ,
- Geismar ,
- Haubern with Dörnholzhausen ,
- Louisendorf ,
- Oberorke with Hessenstein ,
- Schreufa ,
- Viermünden .
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]).