- Bouches-de-l'Elbe
Bouches-de-l'Elbe ( _de. Elbmündungen) is the name of a département of the
First French Empire in presentGermany that survived three years. It is named after the mouth of the riverElbe . It was formed in1811 , when the region was annexed by France. Its territory is part of the present German landsLower Saxony ,Schleswig-Holstein andHamburg . Its capital wasHamburg . The département was subdivided into the followingarrondissement s and cantons:*
Hamburg , cantons:Bergedorf ,Hamburg , Hamm and Wilhelmsburg.
*Lübeck , cantons:Lauenburg ,Lübeck , Mölln, Neuhaus,Ratzeburg ,Schwarzenbek andSteinhorst (Lauenburg) .
*Lüneburg , cantons:Bardowick ,Buxtehude , Garlstorf, Harburg, Hittfeld,Lüneburg ,Tostedt andWinsen .
*Stade , cantons:Bremervörde , Freiburg (Elbe),Himmelpforten ,Horneburg ,Jork ,Neuhaus (Oste) ,Otterndorf , Ritzebüttel,Stade andZeven .After
Napoleon was defeated in1814 , the département was redivided over theKingdom of Hanover , theDuchy of Holstein and the free cities ofHamburg andLübeck .
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