Canton of Holzheim

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Kingdom of Westphalia
Canton of Holzheim
department Department of the Werra
District District of Hersfeld
Capital of the canton Holzheim
surface 2.14 square miles
Residents 4,707
Villages and hamlets 28
Cities 0

The canton Holzheim was an administrative unit in the Hersfeld district of the Werra department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . The main place of the canton and seat of the justice of the peace was the place Holzheim in today's district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg . The canton comprised 28 villages and hamlets, had 4,707 inhabitants and an area of ​​2.14 square miles .

The following places belonged to the canton:

Individual evidence

  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. 207 ( lwl.org [PDF; 4.9 MB ; accessed on 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 ( books.google.de [PDF; 19.2 MB ; accessed on April 26, 2009]).