Canton of Volkmarsen
| Kingdom of Westphalia | |
|---|---|
| Canton of Volkmarsen | |
| department | Department of the Fulda |
| District | Cassel District |
| Seat of the cantonal administration |
Volkmarsen |
| surface | 1.82 square miles |
| Residents | 5,092 |
| Villages and hamlets | 6th |
| Cities | 1 |
The canton of Volkmarsen was an administrative unit in the Cassel district of the Fulda department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . The city of Volkmarsen in today's Waldeck-Frankenberg district was the capital of the canton and seat of the justice of the peace . The canton covered not only the city Volkmarsen six villages and hamlets inhabited by 5092 inhabitants and had 917 fires (housing units) in an area of 1.82 square miles .
The following localities belonged to the canton:
The canton was dissolved after the area fell to the Kingdom of Prussia through the Congress of Vienna .
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 . ( PDF 4.9MB [accessed on May 3, 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 ( PDF 19.2MB [accessed on May 3, 2009]).
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Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 45.1 ″ N , 9 ° 6 ′ 53.7 ″ E