Canton of Gemünden

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Kingdom of Westphalia
Canton of Gemünden
department Department of the Werra
District District of Marburg
Capital of the canton Gemünden (Wohra)
surface 2.98 square miles
Residents 4,588
Villages and hamlets 19th
Cities 1

The canton of Gemünden was an administrative unit in the Marburg district of the Werra department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . The seat of the canton administration was the city of Gemünden in today's Waldeck-Frankenberg district .

The canton comprised 19 villages and hamlets and a city, had 4,588 inhabitants and an area of ​​2.98 square miles .

The municipalities belonged to the canton:

Notes and individual references

  1. "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]).
  2. 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]).