Canton of Münden

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Kingdom of Westphalia
Canton of Münden
department Department of the Fulda
District District of Kassel
surface 1.77 square miles
Residents 7,603
Villages and hamlets 14th
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The canton of Münden was an administrative unit in the Kassel district of the Fulda department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 to 1813 . The main town of the canton and seat of the justice of the peace was the city of Münden in today's district of Göttingen ( Lower Saxony ). The canton comprised 14 villages and hamlets and one city, had 7,603 inhabitants and an area of ​​1.77 square miles .

The municipalities 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. 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. 28 ( books.google.de [PDF; 19.2 MB ; accessed on May 14, 2011]).

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