Canton of Vacha
| Kingdom of Westphalia | |
|---|---|
| Canton of Vacha | |
| department | Department of the Werra |
| District | District of Hersfeld |
| Capital of the canton | Vacha |
| surface | 2.04 square miles |
| Residents | 5,022 |
| Villages and hamlets | 25th |
| Cities | 1 |
The canton Vacha was an administrative unit in the Hersfeld district of the Werra department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia and existed from 1807 to 1813. The main town of the canton and seat of the justice of the peace was the city of Vacha in what is now the Wartburg district , Thuringia . The canton comprised a town and 25 villages, hamlets and individual farms, had 5,022 inhabitants and an area of 2.04 square miles .
The following places belonged to the canton:
- City of Vacha with Poppenberg , Badelachen and Hedwigshof
- Neu-Breitzbach , horse village with Deicheroda , Larau, Iberts, Riembach, Mühlwärts and Räsa
- Sünna , Rodenberg with Hüttenroda and Mosa
- Oechsen , Völkershausen , Busengraben , Luttershof and Martinroda
- Wölferbütt with Masbach
- Mariengart , Willmanns and Kohlgraben
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. 207 ( 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]).
- ↑ Oechsen is also assigned to the canton of Lengsfeld in the same sources .