Canton of Lohra

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Kingdom of Westphalia
Canton of Lohra
department Department of the Werra
District District of Marburg
surface 1.99 square miles
Residents 3,869
Villages and hamlets 24
Cities 0

The canton Lohra was an administrative unit in the Marburg district of the Werra department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . The seat of the canton administration was Lohra in what is now the Marburg-Biedenkopf district . The canton comprised 24 villages and hamlets, was inhabited by 3,869 people and had an area of ​​1.99 square miles .

The following localities 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. 203 ( 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]).