Canton of Lengsfeld

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Kingdom of Westphalia
Canton of Lengsfeld
department Department of the Werra
District District of Hersfeld
Capital of the canton Stadtlengsfeld
surface 1.51 square miles
Residents 4,271
Villages and hamlets 9
Cities 1

The canton Lengsfeld was an administrative unit in the Hersfeld district of the Werra department in the Napoleonic kingdom of Westphalia . The main town of the canton and seat of the justice of the peace was the city of Lengsfeld, since 1896 Stadtlengsfeld , since 2019 part of Dermbach in what is now the Wartburg district , Thuringia .

history

Lengsfeld, Gehaus and Weilar and the surrounding hamlets of the office and later canton of Lengsfeld formed the direct imperial rule of Lengsfeld of the Lords of Boyneburg until 1802 , but then changed their rulers several times in quick succession due to the Napoleonic Wars .

First they went to Friedrich Wilhelm von Oranien-Nassau with the majority of the previous bishopric of Fulda , to whom his father, the inheritance holder Wilhelm V, received the compensation he had received in Germany in 1801 after the French conquest of the Netherlands , the secularized principality of Fulda and Corvey on 29. August 1802 had ceded. In 1803 the Electorate of Hesse occupied the office for a short time, but had to surrender it again under Napoléon's pressure.

After Friedrich Wilhelm von Orange, as the commander of a Prussian division, surrendered on October 15, 1806 with 10,000 men in Erfurt after the battle of Jena , Napoléon declared that he had lost his principality. For a short time the office of Lengsfeld belonged again to the Electorate of Hesse , which again took possession of it, but in August 1807 it came to the newly created Kingdom of Westphalia under the Emperor's brother Jérôme with the entire Electorate annexed by Napoleon .

In 1810 the entire canton became part of the new Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in 1814, Kurhessen occupied the area for the third time. This was declared illegal by the other powers, and after the Congress of Vienna Prussia took possession of the Principality of Fulda and the Lengsfeld office in July 1815.

It then came to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach in February 1816 as the “Großherzoglich-Freiherrllch von Boyneburg and von Müller Patrimonial-Amt Lengsfeld” , with which it remained until November 1918.

scope

The canton comprised a town and 9 villages, hamlets and individual farms, had 4,271 inhabitants and an area of ​​1.51 square miles .

The following places belonged to the canton:

Notes and individual references

  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. 209 ( 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]).
  3. ↑ Oechsen is also assigned to the canton Vacha in the same sources .

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