Canton of Melle (department of the Weser)

Kingdom of Westphalia
Canton of Melle (department of the Weser)
department	Department of the Weser
District	Osnabrück District
Capital of the canton	Melle
Villages and hamlets	18th

The canton Melle was an administrative unit in the Osnabrück district of the Weser department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 to 1810. After the annexation of the areas west of the Weser by the French Empire , the canton belonged to the Département de l'Ems-Supérieur from 1811 to 1813 . The main town of the canton and seat of the justice of the peace was the patch Melle in today's district of Osnabrück ( Lower Saxony ). The canton comprised 2 villages and 21 hamlets .

The localities in the canton were:

Melle , canton capital Handarpe , Gehrde , Backum , Eicken , Floor peat , Eickholt , Schlochtern ,

Lahr , Drantum , Gesmold , Wennigsen , Alten-Melle , Warninghof , Udinghausen , Dratum ,

Hide , Wellingholzhausen , Vestendorf , Peingdorf , Himmer , Uhlenberg , Rüven and Kerßenbrock .

In 1808 the layout of the canton was changed, so the following eighteen villages belonged to it:

The city or area of Melle with 120 households, Alten-Melle, Handarpe, Gehrde, Backum, Eicken, Floor peat, Eickholt, Chatter,

Laer, Drantum, Oldendorf , Foltinghausen , Westerhausen , Ober-Holsten , Nieder-Holsten , Gesmold and Wennigsen.

The seat of the magistrate's court was Melle.

literature

• Royal decree ordering the division of the kingdom into eight departments . List of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Hrsg.): Project Westphalian history . 1807 ( PDF 4.9MB [accessed December 5, 2011]).
• Handbook about the Kingdom of Westphalia . For information about the country and its inhabitants, the constitution, administration and external conditions of the state in general and its individual parts in particular, together with a list of the most distinguished court and state officials. Hemmerde and Schwedtschke, Halle 1808 ( full text in the Google book search [accessed on December 5, 2011]).

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ ^{a b} Royal Decree, which orders the division of the kingdom into eight departments . List of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Hrsg.): Project Westphalian history . S. 221 ( PDF 4.9MB [accessed December 5, 2011]).
2. ↑ Unclear whether the Laer district was meant here and whether this is just a transmission error.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Handbook about the Kingdom of Westphalia . For information about the country and its inhabitants, the constitution, administration and external conditions of the state in general and its individual parts in particular, together with a list of the most distinguished court and state officials. Hemmerde and Schwedtschke, Halle 1808, p. 327 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed December 5, 2011]).