Canton of Helfta
| Kingdom of Westphalia | |
|---|---|
| Canton of Helfta | |
| department | Department of the Saale |
| Arrondissement | Hall |
| Capital of the canton | Helfta |
| surface | 2.13 square miles |
| Residents | 3700 |
| Villages and hamlets | 9 |
The canton Helfa 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 Helfta in today's district of Mansfeld-Südharz . The canton comprised ten parishes and several hamlets , was inhabited by 3,700 people and had an area of 2.13 square miles . It emerged from the Magdeburg-Mansfeld office of Leimbach .
The localities belonging to the canton were:
- Helfta
- Hedersleben
- Dederstedt
- Oberrißdorf
- Unterrißdorf
- Erdeborn
- Lüttchendorf
- Hornburg
- Wolfrode
- Bischofsrode
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 56 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ↑ 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. 183 ( PDF 4.9MB ).
- ↑ 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. 208 ( full text in Google Book Search).