Canton of Groß Apenburg

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Canton Groß Apenburg in the Salzwedel district of the Elbe Department of the Kingdom of Westphalia (1812)

The canton Groß Apenburg (also Canton Groß Apenburg , Canton Großapenburg , or just Canton Apenburg ) was an administrative unit in the Kingdom of Westphalia . The canton existed from 1807 until the kingdom was dissolved in 1813 and, after the administrative structure of 1807, initially belonged to the Salzwedel district of the Elbe department . The canton capital ( chef lieu ) was Groß Apenburg in the Apenburg-Winterfeld area ( Altmarkkreis Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt). In 1810 this district of Salzwedel was dissolved and a new district of Salzwedel was founded in the Nieder-Elbe department . The department of the Nieder-Elbe was dissolved again in 1811 and two districts of this department were annexed by the French Empire. The new district of Salzwedel (and thus the canton of Groß Apenburg) were again transferred to the Elbe department in 1811. After the dissolution of the Kingdom of Westphalia in October / November 1813, the previous administrative structure was restored in the course of 1814.

history

With the Peace of Tilsit , Prussia lost the Altmark - along with many other areas - to the newly established Kingdom of Westphalia by decree of August 18, 1807. An administrative reform was carried out in the Altmark by December 1807. The Altmark, together with other formerly Prussian parts of the country (parts of the Duchy of Magdeburg ), formed the newly created department of the Elbe, which was divided into four districts ( Magdeburg , Neuhaldensleben , Stendal and Salzwedel). After the directory of departments, districts, cantons and communes of the Kingdom in December 1807 of Salzwedel district was divided into 15 cantons ( cantons ), including the Canton United Apenburg. The following belonged to the canton Groß Apenburg (different original spellings of the place names in italics):

Before the administrative reform of 1807, the places belonged to the Arendsee and Salzwedel districts of the Altmark.

The canton Groß Apenburg had 2,606 inhabitants in 1808. With the annexation of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in 1810, the three new departments, Northern Department , Department of Nieder-Elbe and Department of Aller were founded on September 1st, 1810 . The old Salzwedel district (in the Elbe department) was dissolved. The newly formed districts of Lüneburg and Harburg as well as a new district of Salzwedel with the existing cantons of Arendsee , Beetzendorf , Diesdorf , Groß Apenburg, Jübar , Kalbe , Salzwedel (city) and Salzwedel (country) as well as the four newly formed were assigned to the department of the Nieder-Elbe Quickborn , Gartow , Lüchow , Wittingen and Wustrow .

On March 5, 1811, the Nieder-Elbe department was dissolved. The two districts of Lüneburg and Harburg became part of the Hanseatic departments of the French Empire. The Salzwedel district was referred back to the Elbe department.

Friedrich Justin Bertuch names 2459 inhabitants for 1810 and an area of ​​3.41 square miles for the canton of Groß Apenburg. Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel in his work Statistical Repertory on the Kingdom of Westphalia for December 1811 the area of ​​the canton Groß Apenburg with 3.41 square miles , the population with 2426 inhabitants. Apparently the cantons of Groß Apenburg and Beetzendorf were then administered together. According to the court and state handbook of 1811, the cantons of Beetzendorf and Groß Apenburg had a combined population of 5775. They were jointly administered by the mayor Johann Jakob August Sulfrian. According to Hassel, however, the cantons of Groß Apenburg and Beetzendorf together had 5666 inhabitants. According to the court and state calendar of 1812, the cantons of Beetzendorf and Groß Apenburg together had 5666 inhabitants.

After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig (October 16-19, 1813), the Kingdom of Westphalia disintegrated in October / November 1813. In the course of 1814, the previous Prussian administrative structure was restored and the cantons dissolved again. In 1816 there was a major district reform in which the old Markbrandenburg districts z. T. newly cut, z. Some of them were also dissolved and new circles were created. The places of the former canton Groß Apenburg now came to the newly cut Salzwedel district in the Prussian province of Saxony .

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. ^ Décret royal du 19 July 1810. The date of the composition of the trois départements formés des anciennes provinces hanovriennes, et la réunion de quelques autres parties. In: Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Volume 6, 354–363, Cassel / Kassel, 1810 Online at Google Books (Departement der Nieder-Elbe p. 357).
  3. ^ Directory of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Volume 1, pp. 57–241, Cassel / Kassel 1810. Online at Google Books ( Kanton Zichtau, pp. 78/79 )
  4. ↑ Latest regional and ethnographic studies: A geographical reader for all classes. Sixth volume, Holland and Westphalia. 377 p., Verlag des geographischen Institut, Weimar, 1808 Online at Google Books , p. 343.
  5. ^ 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)
  6. ^ Friedrich Justin Bertuch: Statistical inventory of the Kingdom of Westphalia according to the latest Paris Tractate v. May 10, 1811. General geographical ephemeris, Volume 36, 1-62, Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comtoirs, Weimar, 1811, online at Google Books , pp. 24f.
  7. ^ Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel: Statistical Repertory on the Kingdom of Westphalia. Friedrich Vieweg, Braunschweig 1813, online at Google Books , p. 7.
  8. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia. 352 S., Gebrüder Hahn, Hannover 1811 Online at Google Books S. 156.
  9. ↑ Karlheinz Gerlach: The Freemasons in Old Prussia 1738-1806: the lodges between the Middle Oder and Lower Rhine, Volume 1. 1014 S., StudienVerlag, Innsbruck, 2007, p. 125.
  10. ↑ Königlich Westphälischer Hof- und Staats-Kalender to the year 1812. 462 S., Königliche Buchdruckerei, Cassel / Kassel 1812 Online at archive.org (S. 216/17).
  11. ^ Karl von Seydlitz: The administrative district of Magdeburg: Geographical, statistical and topographical manual. 209 p., Ferdinand Rubach, Magdeburg, 1820.

Coordinates: 52 ° 42 ′  N , 11 ° 12 ′  E