Canton of Ratingen

The canton of Ratingen was a canton in the Grand Duchy of Berg and belonged to the arrondissement or district of Düsseldorf in the department of the Rhine . The main town was Ratingen . Its official population was 13,713. According to the decree of March 15, 1812, he was entitled to a deputy in the college; its cantonal assembly comprised 50 notables, who were chosen from the 160 most taxable citizens.

places

The canton included

• the city of Ratingen as the capital,
• the city of Kaiserswerth ,
• the former office of Angermund with
  • the village of Angermund
  • the honors Rath , Lohhausen , Stockum , Kalkum , Einbrungen , Wittlar , Bockum , Mündelheim , Ehingen , Serm , Huckingen , Lintorf , Eggerscheid , Bracht , Eckamp , Homberg , Belscheid and Hösel
• the former Landsberg office with the honors Breitscheid , Selbeck , Mintard and Laupendahl
• the villages of Wanheim and Angerhausen from the former Duisburg office .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Décret, on the division of the Grand Duchy of Berg, of November 14, 1808, Gesetz-Bülletin, Erste Abtheilung, No. V, pp. 50, 62.
2. ↑ Imperial Decree concerning the organization of the Council of State and the College, Law Bülletin, No. 93, p. 34