Canton of Warburg
| Kingdom of Westphalia | |
|---|---|
| Canton of Warburg | |
| department | Department of the Fulda |
| District | Höxter district |
| Seat of the cantonal administration |
Warburg |
| surface | 1.78 square miles |
| Residents | 5,994 |
| Villages and hamlets | 9 |
| Cities | 1 |
The canton Warburg was an administrative unit in the Höxter 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 city of Warburg in today's Höxter district . The canton covered not only the city of Warburg nine villages and hamlets, inhabited by 5,994 inhabitants and had 1,059 fires (housing units) in an area of 1.78 square miles .
The city of Warburg itself had 410 houses and 2,011 inhabitants.
The following localities belonged to the canton:
- Warburg
- Bonenburg
- Dössel with Haus Riepen
- Hardehausen
- Hohenwepel
- Menne
- North
- Ossendorf
- Rimbeck
- Scherfede
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 . ( 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. 30 ( books.google.de [PDF; 19.2 MB ; accessed on April 26, 2009]).
- ↑ Georg Hassel: Kingdom of Westphalia in front of his organization, - presented statistically. Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1807 p. 39
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 16.1 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 52.9 ″ E