Northeim Canton

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Kingdom of Westphalia
Northeim Canton
Surname Canton de Northeim
department Department of the Leine
District Goettingen
Capital of the canton Northeim
surface 2.25 square miles
Residents 7519
Villages and hamlets 7 (12)
Cities 1
Northeim (Lower Saxony)
Northeim
Northeim
Position of the main town on a map of today's Lower Saxony

The canton of Northeim existed from 1807 to 1813 in the Göttingen district ( Department of the Leine , Kingdom of Westphalia ) and was formed by the Royal Decree of December 24, 1807. The canton was affected by the restructuring of the district to finalize the status of the communes in the department of the Leine on June 16, 1809. The canton was expanded to include the communities of Gillersheim, Duhm, Katlenburg, Suterode and Wachenhausen and reorganized as shown below.

Communities

from 1809

  • Northeim
  • Denkershausen and Wiebrechtshausen with Mandelbeck
  • Langenholtensen with domain Brunstein
  • Edesheim with two bars
  • Hohnstedt
  • Vogelbeck
  • Hammenstedt with Guntgenburg
  • Gillersheim (new)
  • Duhm , Domain Katlenburg and Suterode (new)
  • Wachenhausen (new)

Individual evidence

  1. Royal Decree, which ordered the division of the kingdom into eight departments . List of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Ed.): Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Vol. I (1807) No. 6 . S. 134 f . ( PDF 4.9MB [accessed on May 10, 2013]).
  2. Royal Decree of June 16, 1809, concerning the definitive territorial division of the department of the Leine . In: Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Vol II (1809) No. 31 . S. 434 ff . ( online [accessed May 10, 2013]).