Canton of Rosenthal
| Kingdom of Westphalia | |
|---|---|
| Canton of Rosenthal | |
| department | Department of the Werra |
| District | District of Marburg |
| surface | 3.68 square miles |
| Residents | 5,068 |
| Villages and hamlets | 16 |
| Cities | 1 |
The canton Rosenthal was an administrative unit in the Marburg district of the Werra department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . The seat of the cantonal administration was the city of Rosenthal in today's Waldeck-Frankenberg district .
The canton comprised 16 villages and a city, had 5,068 inhabitants and an area of 3.68 square miles .
The following localities belonged to the canton:
- City of Rosenthal with Merzhausen, Holzbach, and Eichmühle,
- Bernsdorf ,
- Betziesdorf ,
- Brings ,
- Bürgeln ,
- Ernsthausen ,
- Hertingshausen ,
- Langendorf ,
- Lehnhausen ,
- Nieder-Holzhausen ,
- Oberholzhausen ,
- Reddehausen ,
- Roda ,
- Schönstadt with Fleckenbühl;
- Schwarzenborn ,
- Meadow field ,
- Willershausen .
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]).