Canton of Veckerhagen
| Kingdom of Westphalia | |
|---|---|
| Canton of Veckerhagen | |
| department | Department of the Fulda |
| District | District of Kassel |
| surface | 2.78 square miles |
| Residents | 3,555 |
| Villages and hamlets | 11 |
| Cities | 0 |
The canton Veckerhagen was an administrative unit in the Kassel district of the Fulda department in the Napoleonic kingdom of Westphalia . The main town of the canton and seat of the justice of the peace was the town of Veckerhagen, today part of Reinhardshagen in the Kassel district . The canton comprised 11 villages and hamlets on the left bank of the Weser and in the Reinhardswald , had 3,555 inhabitants and an area of 2.78 square miles .
The municipalities belonged to the canton:
- Veckerhagen
- Beberbeck and Klosterhof (Bensdorf)
- Glassworks with Wambach
- Hilwartshausen
- Holzhausen
- Hombressen
- Vaake
- Sababurg
- Wilhelmshausen
Individual evidence
- ↑ "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. 28 ( books.google.de [PDF; 19.2 MB ; accessed on May 14, 2011]).
- ↑ Klosterhof, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).