Canton of Kaufungen
| Kingdom of Westphalia | |
|---|---|
| Canton of Kaufungen | |
| department | Department of the Fulda |
| District | District of Kassel |
| surface | 3.22 square miles |
| Residents | 7,025 |
| Villages and hamlets | 14th |
| Cities | 1 |
The canton of Kaufungen was an administrative unit in the Kassel district of the Fulda department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . The main place of the canton and seat of the justice of the peace was the place Oberkaufungen in today's district of Kassel . The canton comprised 14 villages and hamlets and one city, had 7,025 inhabitants, and an area of 3.22 square miles .
The following places belonged to the canton:
- Oberkaufungen, with Sensenstein , Friedrichswerk, Mittelthal and Johanneswiese
- Epterode and Querenberg
- Eschenstruth
- City of Großalmerode , with Niedern-Gute
- Helsa , Wickenrode and Hesberg
- Nieste , Hessenhof, Rotte Breite and Buntebock
- Quentel , with St. Ottilien
- Wattenbach
- Wellerode
Individual evidence
- ↑ "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 ( lwl.org [PDF; 4.9 MB ; accessed on April 26, 2009]).
- ↑ Friedrich Justin Bertuch (ed.): General geographical ephemeris . With charts and copper. Volume six and thirtieth. Publishers of the Landes-Industrie-Comtoir, Weimar 1911, p. 29 ( books.google.de [PDF; 19.2 MB ; accessed on May 14, 2011]).