Gartow Canton

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The canton Gartow ( IV. 11 ) in the Salzwedel district of the Elbe department of the Kingdom of Westphalia.

The canton Gartow (also Canton Gartow ) was an administrative unit in the Kingdom of Westphalia . It was formed in 1810 after the incorporation of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg into the Kingdom of Westphalia and assigned to the Salzwedel district in the Nieder-Elbe department. As early as March 1811, the Nieder-Elbe department was dissolved and most of it came to the newly created French Hanseatic departments . The Salzwedel district came (again) to the Elbe department . The canton capital ( chef lieu ) was Gartow in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district (Lower Saxony). After the kingdom of Westphalia was dissolved in October / November 1813, the previous administrative structure was restored.

history

With a decree of August 18, 1807, Emperor Napoleon brought the Kingdom of Westphalia into being. The first and only King Hieronymus Napoleon ( Jérôme Bonaparte ), brother of Napoleon, did not receive full sovereignty over his kingdom until December 1, 1807. In 1807, in the Peace of Tilsit, Prussia had to cede, along with other parts of the country, the Altmark and the Duchy of Magdeburg , which were added to the new kingdom. From these areas the department of the Elbe was formed, divided into four districts ( Magdeburg , Neuhaldensleben , Stendal and Salzwedel).

In 1810 the Kingdom of Westphalia annexed the former Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . From these areas three new departments were formed, the department of the Nieder-Elbe, the northern department (later called the department of the Elbe and Weser estuaries ) and the department of the Aller . The Salzwedel district of the Elbe department was formally dissolved and a new Salzwedel district was formed in the Nieder-Elbe department. In the north, the cantons of Bretsch and Pollitz were given to the district of Stendal. In the south, the cantons of Mieste , Gardelegen (city) , Gardelegen (country) and Zichtau came to the Neuhaldensleben district. For this, the district received five cantons newly formed from areas of the Electorate of Lüneburg, Quickborn , Lüchow , Gartow, Wittingen and Wustrow

The Gartow canton, formed in 1810, was essentially formed from the Gartow office . In the south there were three villages from the Lüchow office . In the east, the office of Schnackenburg was added. According to the division territoriale relative aux trois départements formés des anciennes provinces hanovriennes ... , which was attached to the royal decree of July 15, 1810, the canton Gartow consisted of the following towns, villages and farmsteads (original spelling, if different from today's spelling in italics):

According to the work Statistical Repertory on the Kingdom of Westphalia by Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel, the canton Gartow 1811 had an area of ​​3.79 square miles and had 6,091 inhabitants. According to the Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1811, the canton Gartow and the canton Quickborn were administered together. Mayor was Ludwig Heinrich Philipp von Ramdohr . The population of the two cantons was given as 10,574.

On December 3, 1812, the community Meetschow was dissolved. It was assigned to the community of Gedelitz with the Laasche community. The districts of Vieze and Brünkendorf were merged with the community of Restorf.

After the defeat in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in October 1813, the Kingdom of Westphalia dissolved. The area came back to the successor state of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, the Kingdom of Hanover. From 1814 the previous administrative structure (Gartow office) was restored.

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. ↑ Royal Decree of December 7th, 1807, which decrees the publication of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Westphalia. Constitution of November 15, 1807. Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Volume 1, pp. 57–241, Cassel / Kassel 1810. Online at Google Books, p. 9.
  3. ^ Division of territorial relative aux trois départements formés des anciennes provinces hanovriennes, et a la réunion de quelques autres parties. Tableau géneral à annexer au décret royal du 15 juillet 1810, inséré au Bulletin No. 26 de ladite année. 88 p. (Separate count) In: Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Volume 6, Cassel / Kassel, 1810 Online at Google Books (pp. 46–49)
  4. ^ Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel: Statistical Repertory on the Kingdom of Westphalia. Friedrich Vieweg, Braunschweig 1813, online at Google Books , p. 9.
  5. ^ Stephan Freiherr von Welck: Franzosenzeit im Hannoversche Wendland (1803-1813): a micro-historical study of everyday life in the countryside between occupation burdens and social reforms. 333 p., Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover, 2008
  6. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia. 352 + register X pages, Gebrüder Hahn, Hannover 1811 Online at Google Books (p. 157)
  7. ↑ Königlich Westphälischer Hof- und Staats-Kalender to the year 1812. 462 p., Königliche Buchdruckerei, Cassel / Kassel 1812 Online at Google Books (p. 216/17).
  8. ^ Law Bülletin. No. 43. Royal Decree of December 3rd, 1812. Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Volume 2, p. 503. Online at Google Books

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′  N , 11 ° 27 ′  E