Canton of Pollitz

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Canton Pollitz in the Stendal district of the Elbe department

The canton Pollitz (also Canton Pollitz ) was an administrative unit in the Kingdom of Westphalia . It existed from 1807 until the kingdom was dissolved in 1813 and, according to the administrative structure, initially belonged to the Salzwedel district of the Elbe department . In 1810 the Salzwedel district in the Elbe department was dissolved. Canton Pollitz was assigned to the district of Stendal . The canton capital was Pollitz , a district of the municipality of Aland in the district of Stendal (Saxony-Anhalt).

history

With the creation of the Kingdom of Westphalia by decree of August 18, 1807, an administrative reform was carried out in the previously Prussian areas of Altmark and the Duchy of Magdeburg in 1807, which was carried out until the formal constitution of the Kingdom of Westphalia on December 1, 1807. The Altmark and the Duchy of Magdeburg as well as smaller Saxon areas ( Grafschaft Barby and Amt Gommern ) formed the newly created department of the Elbe, which was divided into four districts ( Magdeburg , Neuhaldensleben , Stendal and Salzwedel). The Salzwedel district was divided into 15 cantons ( cantons ) including the Canton Pollitz. The following belonged to the canton of Pollitz (original spellings that differ from today's spelling are in italics):

The settlements belonged to the Seehausen and Arendsee districts of the Markbrandenburg Altmark.

In 1808 the canton of Pollitz had 3,167 inhabitants. Hassel gives the size of the canton for 1810 as 2.52 square miles. According to his information, the canton had 3249 inhabitants in 1810.

In 1810 the Salzwedel district (in the Elbe department) was dissolved. In the north, the cantons of Bretsche and Pollitz were given to the district of Stendal. In the south, the cantons of Mieste , Gardelegen (city) , Gardelegen (country) and Zichtau came to the Neuhaldensleben district.

In the department of the Nieder-Elbe , a new district of Salzwedel was created from areas of the annexed Electorate of Hanover and some areas that had previously belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia, which received eight cantons of the dissolved old district of Salzwedel (( Canton Jübar , Canton Calbe , Canton Groß-Apenburg , Canton Betzendorf , Canton Disdorf , Stadtkanton Salzwedel , Landkanton Salzwedel and Kanton Arendsee )) and in the northwest and west the newly formed cantons Quickborn , Gartow , Lüchow , Wittingen and Wustrow .

In 1811/12, Leopold Wilhelm von der Schulenburg zu Priemern was mayor of the canton of Pollitz, now in the Stendal district . The canton of Pollitz was apparently administered together with the canton of Bretsche around this time . The two cantons together had 5774 inhabitants. In contrast, the court and state calendar for 1812 gives the population of the two cantons with 6191 inhabitants.

With the collapse of the Kingdom of Westphalia after the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813, the previous Prussian administrative structure was restored and the cantons dissolved again. In the district reform of 1816, the area of ​​the canton Pollitz came to the newly created 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. ↑ Anonymus: History of legislation and court constitution in the judicial district of the Higher Regional Court of Magdeburg from the Peace of Tilsit to January 1st. 1815. Yearbooks for Prussian Legislation, Jurisprudence and Legal Administration, Volume 22, pp. 50–66, Berlin 1823 Online at Google Books (p. 65)
  3. ^ Directory of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Volume 1, pp. 57–241, Cassel / Kassel 1810. Online at Google Books ( Kanton Pollitz, p. 87 )
  4. ↑ Latest regional and ethnographic studies: A geographical reader for all classes. Sixth volume, Holland and Westphalia. 377 p., Verlag des geographischen Institut, Weimar, 1808 Online at Google Books , p. 344/45.
  5. ^ Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel: Statistical Repertory on the Kingdom of Westphalia. Friedrich Vieweg, Braunschweig 1813, online at Google Books , p. 7.
  6. ^ Division of territorial relative aux trois départements formés des anciennes provinces hanovriennes, et a la réunion de quelques autres parties. Tableau géneral à annexer au décret royal du 15 juillet 1810, inséré au Bulletin No. 26 de ladite année. 88 p. (Separate count) In: Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Volume 6, Cassel / Kassel, 1810 Online at Google Books (pp. 46–49)
  7. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia. Hahn Brothers, Hanover 1811 Online at Google Books p. 157.
  8. ↑ Königlich Westphälischer Hof- und Staats-Kalender to the year 1812. 462 S., Königliche Buchdruckerei, Cassel / Kassel 1812 Online with Google Books (p. 216).
  9. ^ 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 ° 58 '  N , 11 ° 38'  E