Canton of Osterburg

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The canton of Osterburg ( III.10 ) in the Stendal district of the Elbe department

The canton Osterburg (also Canton Osterburg ) was an administrative unit of the Kingdom of Westphalia . It emerged around / before 1809 from the union of the previous cantons Osterburg (country) and Osterburg (city), formed in 1807, and existed until the Kingdom of Westphalia was dissolved in October 1813. According to the administrative structure of the kingdom, it belonged to the Stendal district of the department the Elbe . The canton capital ( chef-lieu ) was Osterburg (Altmark) in the district of Stendal (Saxony-Anhalt).

history

In 1807, in the Peace of Tilsit , Prussia had to forego the Altmark and the Duchy of Magdeburg among other areas in favor of the Kingdom of Westphalia, which was newly founded that year. From these areas and smaller areas ceded by the Kingdom of Saxony , the Elbe Department was formed, which was divided into four districts ( Magdeburg , Neuhaldensleben , Stendal and Salzwedel ). The Stendal district was subdivided further into 13 cantons ( cantons ), including the cantons Osterburg (city) and Osterburg- (country). At a time that is not exactly known (around / before 1809) the two cantons were merged into a new canton of Osterburg. The general charter of the Kingdom of Westphalia by Karl Ferdinand Weiland from 1809 already shows the canton of Osterburg. After the unification of the cantons, it comprised 13 municipalities:

The canton had an area of ​​3.75 square miles and 5,480 inhabitants in 1813. Kantonmaire was a Herr von Bock. Friedrich Justin Bertuch gives the population for 1811 as 5,358, as does the Court and State Handbook from 1811 . According to the Royal Westphalian Court and State Calendar of 1812, the canton had 5,480 inhabitants.

With the collapse of the Kingdom of Westphalia after the Battle of Leipzig , the previous Prussian administrative structure was restored. In the district reform of 1816, the area of ​​the canton Osterburg came to the newly formed district Osterburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Special atlas of the Kingdom of Westphalia: consisting of eight departmental and one general chart: 7: Chart of the department of the Elbe of the Kingdom of Westphalia: designed and published by the highest royal orders. Publishing house of the geographical institute, Weimar 1812 UrMEL Thuringian University and State Library
  2. ↑ Karl Ferdinand Weiland: General-Charte of the Kingdom of Westphalia at the same time as Tableau d'Assemblage for the royal. Department atlas issued by order, and to be used as a complete postal chart of the kingdom. Weimar, Geographical Institute, 1812. ULB Münster
  3. ^ Directory of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Volume 1, Elbe Department (separate census), pp. 1–26, Cassel / Kassel 1808. Canton Osterburg (city) / Canton Osterburg (country) pp. 14/15
  4. ^ Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel: Statistical Repertory on the Kingdom of Westphalia. Friedrich Vieweg, Braunschweig 1813, full text at Google Books , p. 9.
  5. ↑ a b Königlich Westphälischer Hof- und Staats-Kalender to the year 1812. 462 S., Königliche Buchdruckerei, Cassel / Kassel 1812 Online with Google Books (p. 216).
  6. ^ Friedrich Justin Bertuch (ed.): Statistical inventory of the Kingdom of Westphalia, according to the latest Paris Tractate v. May 10, 1811. General geographical ephemeris. With charts and copper. Volume 36, 3-62, Im Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, Weimar 1811, p. 23 (full text on Google Books) .
  7. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia. Hahn brothers, Hanover 1811 Online at Google Books p. 156.
  8. ^ Karl von Seydlitz: The administrative district of Magdeburg: Geographical, statistical and topographical manual. 209 S., Ferdinand Rubach, Magdeburg, 1820 Online at Google Books .

Coordinates: 52 ° 47 '  N , 11 ° 45'  E