Canton Obernkirchen

Kingdom of Westphalia
Canton Obernkirchen
Surname	Canton d 'Obernkirchen
department	Department of the Aller ; Department of the Weser ; Department of the Leine
District	Rinteln ; Hanover
Capital of the canton	Obernkirchen
surface	1.15 square miles
Residents	3586 as of 1811
Villages and hamlets	14th
Cities	1

Obernkirchen

Position of the main town on a map of today's Lower Saxony

The canton Obernkirchen was an administrative unit in the Kingdom of Westphalia , which existed from 1807 to 1813 and was formed by the Royal Decree of December 24, 1807. From 1807 to 1810 the canton belonged to the Minden district in the department of the Weser . He then came from July 19, 1810 to November 20, 1812 to the Aller department in the Hanover district and finally he was incorporated into the new Rinteln district in the Leine department , where he worked with the cantons of Hausberge and Obernkirchen on November 20, 1812 confirmed and its congregations rearranged. The canton did not change its cantonal division in 1812.

Communities

Obernkirchen
Beecke , Krainhagen and Röhrkasten
Liekwegen
Rolfshagen with the Cattenbruck estate (Kattenbruch, demolished in 1884)
Borstel and Bernsen
Kathrinhagen with Poggenhagen
Rehren and Westerwald
Escher and Hattendorf

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 230 ff . ( PDF 4.9MB [accessed on May 10, 2013]).
↑ New division of the Kingdom of Westphalia. Royal Decree of July 19, 1810, which decreed the composition of the three departments formed from the former Hanoverian provinces, and the union of some other parts of the kingdom with them . In: Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Vol II (1810) No. 78 . S. 359 ff . ( online [accessed May 10, 2013]).
↑ Royal Decree of November 20, 1812 whereby the cantons Hausberge, Windheim and Obernkirchen are united with the District Rinteln, and their communal division is determined . In: Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Vol II (1812) No. 183 . S. 428 ff . ( online [accessed May 10, 2013]).

[decret1807-1] 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. 230 ff . ( PDF 4.9MB [accessed on May 10, 2013]).

[decret1809-2] New division of the Kingdom of Westphalia. Royal Decree of July 19, 1810, which decreed the composition of the three departments formed from the former Hanoverian provinces, and the union of some other parts of the kingdom with them . In: Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Vol II (1810) No. 78 . S. 359 ff . ( online [accessed May 10, 2013]).

[decret1812-3] Royal Decree of November 20, 1812 whereby the cantons Hausberge, Windheim and Obernkirchen are united with the District Rinteln, and their communal division is determined . In: Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Vol II (1812) No. 183 . S. 428 ff . ( online [accessed May 10, 2013]).