Province of Lower Silesia

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Niederschlesien Lower Silesia Province of Prussia ← 1919 — 1938 1941 — 1945 ↓ Flag Coat of arms Lower Silesia (red), within the Free State of Prussia Capital Breslau History  - Established 1919  - Merged with U. Silesia 1938 - 1941  - Disestablished 1945 Area  - 1925 26,616 km² (10,276 sq mi) Population  - 1925 est. 3,132,135       Density 117.7 /km²  (304.8 /sq mi) Preceded by Succeeded by Province of Silesia Lubusz Voivodeship Lower Silesia Voivodeship Opole Voivodship Saxony Brandenburg

This article is about the historical Prussian province. For the present-day province of Poland, see Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

The Province of Lower Silesia (German: Provinz Niederschlesien) was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1919 to 1945. Between 1938 and 1941 it was reunited with Upper Silesia as the Province of Silesia. The capital of Lower Silesia was Breslau (now Wrocław in Poland). The province was further divided into two administrative regions (Regierungsbezirke), Breslau and Liegnitz.

The region of Lower Silesia now lies mainly in Poland, but with parts in the German Free State of Saxony (the Görlitz, Rothenburg/Oberlausitz and Hoyerswerda areas) and a small part in Brandenburg.

Contents 1 Administrative regions 1.1 Regierungsbezirk Breslau 1.1.1 Urban districts / Stadtkreise 1.1.2 Rural districts / Landkreise 1.2 Regierungsbezirk Liegnitz 1.2.1 Urban districts / Stadtkreise 1.2.2 Rural districts / Landkreise 2 See also

[edit] Administrative regions

[edit] Regierungsbezirk Breslau

[edit] Urban districts / Stadtkreise

1. City of Breslau
2. City of Brieg
3. City of Schweidnitz
4. City of Waldenburg

[edit] Rural districts / Landkreise

1. Landkreis Breslau
2. Landkreis Brieg
3. Landkreis Frankenstein
4. Landkreis Glatz
5. Landkreis Groß Wartenberg
6. Landkreis Guhrau
7. Landkreis Habelschwerdt
8. Landkreis Militsch
9. Landkreis Namslau
10. Landkreis Neumarkt
11. Landkreis Oels
12. Landkreis Ohlau
13. Landkreis Reichenbach (im Eulengebirge)
14. Landkreis Schweidnitz
15. Landkreis Strehlen
16. Landkreis Trebnitz
17. Landkreis Waldenburg
18. Landkreis Wohlau

[edit] Regierungsbezirk Liegnitz

[edit] Urban districts / Stadtkreise

1. City of Glogau
2. City of Görlitz
3. City of Hirschberg im Riesengebirge
4. City of Liegnitz

[edit] Rural districts / Landkreise

1. Landkreis Bunzlau
2. Landkreis Fraustadt
3. Landkreis Freystadt in Niederschlesien
4. Landkreis Glogau
5. Landkreis Görlitz
6. Landkreis Goldberg
7. Landkreis Grünberg
8. Landkreis Hirschberg
9. Landkreis Hoyerswerda
10. Landkreis Jauer
11. Landkreis Landeshut
12. Landkreis Lauban
13. Landkreis Liegnitz
14. Landkreis Löwenberg
15. Landkreis Lüben
16. Landkreis Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.)
17. Landkreis Sprottau

[edit] See also

• Lower Silesian Voivodeship
• Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis
• Territorial Association of Silesia

v • d • e Territories and Provinces of Prussia (1525–1947)
Before 1701	Duchy of Prussia · Margraviate of Brandenburg Farther Pomerania · Cleves (1614) · Mark · Ravensberg Minden (1648) · Halberstadt · Magdeburg Colonies of Brandenburg-Prussia: Groß Friedrichsburg · Arguin · Crab Island · Tertholen
After 1701	Neuchâtel · Minden-Ravensberg · Hither Pomerania · East Frisia · Silesia (1740) · Glatz (1763) · Polish Prussia (1772), Netze District (1772) · South Prussia (1793) · New East Prussia, New Silesia (1795)
Reorder after 1814–15	East Prussia & West Prussia (1824–78 joined to Province of Prussia) · Brandenburg · Pomerania · Grand Duchy of Posen (in 1848 transformed to Province of Posen) · Saxony · Silesia · Westphalia · Rhine Province (1822, Lower Rhine & Jülich-Cleves-Berg) · Hohenzollern (1850) · Schleswig-Holstein, Hanover, Hesse-Nassau (1866–68)
Territorial reforms after 1918	Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia (1919) · Greater Berlin (1920) · Posen-West Prussia (1922) Halle-Merseburg, Magdeburg, Kurhessen, Nassau (1944)