Canton of Rauschenberg
| Kingdom of Westphalia | |
|---|---|
| Canton of Rauschenberg | |
| department | Department of the Werra |
| District | District of Marburg |
| surface | 1.22 square miles |
| Residents | 4,249 |
| Villages and hamlets | 11 |
| Cities | 1 |
The canton Rauschenberg was an administrative unit in the Marburg district of the Werra department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . The seat of the canton administration was the town of Rauschenberg in what is now the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf .
The canton comprised 11 villages and hamlets and a city, had 4,249 inhabitants and an area of 1.22 square miles .
The municipalities belonged to the canton:
- City of Rauschenberg with the Wambach farm and the Fiddemühle,
- Sindersfeld ,
- Schwabendorf with Wolfskaute ,
- Albshausen ,
- Wohra ,
- Halsdorf with Niedlingen,
- Josbach ,
- Wolferode ,
- Hatzbach ,
- Burgholz ,
- Ernsthausen .
Notes and individual references
- ↑ "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]).