Canton of Lüchow

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The canton Lüchow ( IV. 10 ) in the Salzwedel district of the Elbe department of the Kingdom of Westphalia.

The canton Lüchow (also Canton Lüchow ) was an administrative unit in the Kingdom of Westphalia . It was formed in 1810 after the incorporation of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (also known as the Electorate of Hanover) into the Kingdom of Westphalia and assigned to the Salzwedel district in the Nieder-Elbe department. As early as March 1811, the Nieder-Elbe department was dissolved and most of the territories came to the newly created French Hanseatic departments . The Salzwedel district was attached to the Elbe department . The canton capital ( chef lieu ) of the canton Lüchow was Lüchow in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district (Lower Saxony). After the dissolution of the Kingdom of Westphalia in October 1813, the cantons were dissolved again and the previous administrative structure was taken over again.

history

With a decree of August 18, 1807, Emperor Napoleon brought the Kingdom of Westphalia into being. The first and only King Hieronymus Napoleon ( Jérôme Bonaparte ), brother of Napoleon, did not receive full sovereignty over his kingdom until December 1, 1807. In 1807, in the Peace of Tilsit, Prussia had to cede, along with other parts of the country, the Altmark and the Duchy of Magdeburg , which were added to the new kingdom. The department of the Elbe was formed from these areas and some smaller Saxon areas, as it was divided into four districts ( Magdeburg , Neuhaldensleben , Stendal and Salzwedel).

In 1810 the Kingdom of Westphalia annexed the former Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , also known as the Electorate of Hanover. From these areas three new departments were formed, the department of the Nieder-Elbe, the northern department (later called the department of the Elbe and Weser estuaries ) and the department of the Aller . The Salzwedel district of the Elbe department was formally dissolved. At the same time, a new Salzwedel district was formed in the Nieder-Elbe department. The new Salzwedel district received eight cantons from the dissolved Salzwedel district of the Elbe department ( canton Jübar , canton Calbe , canton Groß-Apenburg , canton Betzendorf , canton Disdorf , city ​​canton Salzwedel , rural canton Salzwedel and canton Arendsee ) and five new ones from areas of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg formed cantons: Quickborn , Lüchow, Gartow , Wittingen and Wustrow .

According to the division territoriale relative aux trois départements formés des anciennes provinces hanovriennes ... , which was attached to the royal decree of July 15, 1810, the canton Lüchow consisted of the following cities, villages and farmsteads (original spellings that differ from today's spelling are in italics ):

According to the work Statistical Repertory on the Kingdom of Westphalia by Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel, the canton Lüchow 1811 had an area of ​​3.55 square miles and had 4,978 inhabitants. According to Friedrich Justin Bertuch, the canton had 5,159 inhabitants in 1811.

As early as March 1811, the Kingdom of Westphalia had to cede large parts of the Nieder-Elbe department to the French Empire ; the Hanseatic Departments were formed from them. The Nieder-Elbe department was dissolved. The remaining district of Salzwedel was attached to the department of the Elbe.

According to the Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1811, the cantons Lüchow and Wustrow were administered together. Maire was Bodo Christian Wilhelm von Plato in Gartow. The population of the two cantons was given together with 10,574.

After the defeat in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in October 1813, the Kingdom of Westphalia dissolved. The area came back to the successor state of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, the Kingdom of Hanover. From 1814 the previous administrative structure was restored.

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. ↑ Royal Decree of December 7th, 1807, which decrees the publication of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Westphalia. Constitution of November 15, 1807. Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Volume 1, pp. 57–241, Cassel / Kassel 1810. Online at Google Books, p. 9.
  3. ^ 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 , p. 357.
  4. ^ 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)
  5. ^ Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel: Statistical Repertory on the Kingdom of Westphalia. Friedrich Vieweg, Braunschweig 1813, online at Google Books , p. 9.
  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. ^ Stephan Freiherr von Welck: Franzosenzeit im Hannoversche Wendland (1803-1813): a micro-historical study of everyday life in the countryside between occupation burdens and social reforms. 333 pp., Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover, 2008, p. 171.
  8. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia. 352 + register X pages, Gebrüder Hahn, Hannover 1811 Online at Google Books (p. 157)
  9. ↑ Königlich Westphälischer Hof- und Staats-Kalender to the year 1812. 462 p., Königliche Buchdruckerei, Cassel / Kassel 1812 Online at Google Books (p. 216/17).

Coordinates: 52 ° 58 '  N , 11 ° 9'  E