Canton of Melsungen
| Kingdom of Westphalia | |
|---|---|
| Canton of Melsungen | |
| department | Department of the Fulda |
| District | District of Kassel |
| surface | ... square miles |
| Residents | 4,450 |
| Villages and hamlets | 10 |
| Cities | 1 |
The canton Melsungen was an administrative unit in the Kassel district of the Fulda department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . The main town of the canton and seat of the justice of the peace was the town of Melsungen in today's Schwalm-Eder district . The canton comprised 10 villages and hamlets and a city and had 4,450 inhabitants.
The municipalities belonging to the canton were:
- Melsungen, with Kuhmannsheide and Obermelsungen
- Dagobertshausen and Schnegelshof
- Elfershausen
- Grebenau
- Lobenhausen
- Malsfeld , with a paper mill and brickworks
- Ostheim
- Wagenfurth
Notes and individual references
- ↑ The two cantons of Gensungen and Melsungen had a combined area of 2.09 square miles .
- ↑ "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]).
- ↑ Friedrich Justin Bertuch (ed.): General geographical ephemeris . With charts and copper. Volume six and thirtieth. Publishers of the Landes-Industrie-Comtoir, Weimar 1911, p. 29 ( books.google.de [PDF; 19.2 MB ; accessed on May 14, 2011]).