City canton of Stendal

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Cantons of Stendal (country) ( III.5 ) and Stendal (city) ( III.4. ) In the Stendal district of the Elbe department

The city ​​canton of Stendal (also just Canton Stendal , Canton Stendal and Stadtcanton Stendal ) was an administrative unit of the Kingdom of Westphalia . It existed from 1807 until the dissolution of the Kingdom of Westphalia in October 1813 and, according to the administrative structure of the kingdom, belonged to the Stendal district of the Elbe department . The canton capital ( chef-lieu ) was Stendal in the Stendal district ( Saxony-Anhalt ).

history

In the Peace of Tilsit in 1807, Prussia had to cede the Altmark and the Duchy of Magdeburg west of the Elbe to the newly founded Kingdom of Westphalia, along with other areas . From these areas, smaller areas ceded by the Kingdom of Saxony , the Office Calvörde of the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and the Office Klötze of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , the Elbe Department was formed, which is divided into four districts ( Magdeburg , Neuhaldensleben , Stendal and Salzwedel ) was. The Stendal district was subdivided further into 14 cantons ( cantons ), including the (urban) Canton Stendal. In addition to the city of Stendal, nine communities belonged to the (city) canton of Stendal (original spellings that differ from today's spelling are in italics):

Before / until 1807, the places belonged to the Stendal District of the Altmark Province of the Mark Brandenburg .

In 1808 the (city) canton of Stendal had 7356 inhabitants. Bertuch gives the area with 2.32 square miles, the population for 1810 with 7111 people. In December 1811 the canton of Stendal had 7,223 inhabitants. The Almanach royal de Westphalie from 1811 summarized the rural and urban cantons of Stendal; both cantons were led by only one canton maire. The population of the two cantons at that time was 10,128, the canton maire was Levin Friedrich Christoph August von Bismarck auf Welle, to whom two adjuncts named Krüger and Helmke were assigned. According to the court and state calendar of 1812, the rural and urban canton of Stendal together now had 10,331 inhabitants. The canton mayor was Levin Friedrich Christoph August von Bismarck with the adjuncts of Jagow and Helmke.

With the collapse of the Kingdom of Westphalia after the Battle of Leipzig (October 16-19, 1813), the area of ​​the canton of Stendal and the rural canton of Stendal was combined to form the Stendal district office. In the district reform of 1816, the Stendal district office became part of the Stendal district .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Special atlas of the Kingdom of Westphalia: consisting of eight departmental and one general chart: 7: Chart of the department of the Elbe of the Kingdom of Westphalia: designed and published by the highest royal orders. Publishing house of the geographical institute, Weimar 1812 UrMEL Thuringian University and State Library
  2. ^ Directory of the departments, districts, cantons and communes of the kingdom. Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Volume 1, Elbe-Departement (separate count), Kanton Seehausen, Cassel / Kassel 1808. 1st print 1808, p. 14/15 Online at Google Books , 2nd print 1810, p. 77 Digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A10550811_00075~SZ%3D~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D in the MDZ . For the differences between the prints see prefacehttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A10550811_00009~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3DPrerede~PUR%3D
  3. ↑ Gerd Heinrich: Administrative divisions 1608-1806. Mounted and circles of the Altmark, Kurmark and Neumark. Historical Atlas of Brandenburg. Publications of the Berlin Historical Commission at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin in 1969.
  4. ↑ Latest regional and ethnographic studies: A geographical reader for all classes. Sixth volume, Holland and Westphalia. 377 p. (Separate census for the Kingdom of Westphalia), Verlag des geographischen Institut, Weimar, 1808 Online at Google Books , p. 338.
  5. ↑ Friedrich Justin Bertuch (ed.): General geographical ephemeris. With charts and copper. Volume six and thirtieth. 511 pp., Im Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, Weimar 1811, p. 23 (full text on Google Books) .
  6. ^ Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel: Statistical Repertory on the Kingdom of Westphalia. Friedrich Vieweg, Braunschweig 1813, online at Google Books , p. 9.
  7. ^ Almanach royal de Westphalie: pour l'an 1811. Imprimerie Royale, Cassel / Kassel 1811. Online at Google Books , p. 169.
  8. ↑ Königlich Westphälischer Hof- und Staats-Kalender to the year 1812. 462 S., Königliche Buchdruckerei, Cassel / Kassel 1812 Online with Google Books (p. 216).
  9. ^ Peter P. Rohrlach: Historical local dictionary for the Altmark (Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg, part XII) . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-2235-5 , pp. 1960 .
  10. ^ Karl von Seydlitz: The administrative district of Magdeburg: Geographical, statistical and topographical manual. 209 pp., Ferdinand Rubach, Magdeburg, 1820 Online at Google Books , p. 194.

Coordinates: 52 ° 36 '  N , 11 ° 52'  E