Canton of Obergeis
| Kingdom of Westphalia | |
|---|---|
| Canton of Obergeis | |
| department | Department of the Werra |
| District | District of Hersfeld |
| Capital of the canton | Obergeis |
| surface | 2.72 square miles |
| Residents | 4,003 |
| Villages and hamlets | 24 |
| Cities | 0 |
The canton Obergeis was an administrative unit in the Hersfeld district of the Werra department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . The main town of the canton and seat of the justice of the peace was Obergeis , today part of Neuenstein in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district . The canton comprised 24 villages and hamlets, had 4,003 residents, and an area of 2.72 square miles .
The following localities belonged to the canton:
- Obergeis, with Erzebach
- Ouch
- Beenhausen with Heyerode and Ludwigseck
- Ersrode with Hainrode
- Frielingen and Heddersdorf
- Gittersdorf
- Goßmannsrode with Rotterterode and Beiersgraben
- Niederthalhausen with the Trunsbach farm
- Oberthalhausen and Emmrichsrode
- Reckerode with Scheidhof
- Untergeis , with Biedebach
- Willingshain and Gersdorf
Individual evidence
- ↑ "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. 61 ( books.google.de [PDF; 19.2 MB ; accessed on April 26, 2009]).