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Province of Lower Silesia

 
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Niederschlesien
Lower Silesia
Province of Prussia
← Flagge Preußen - Provinz Schlesien.svg
 1919 — 1938
1941 — 1945		 ↓
Flag Coat of arms
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Lower Silesia
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 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 the federal state of Brandenburg.

Contents

Administrative regions

Regierungsbezirk Breslau

Urban districts / Stadtkreise

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

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

Regierungsbezirk Liegnitz

Urban districts / Stadtkreise

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

Rural districts / Landkreise

  1. Landkreis Bunzlau
  2. Landkreis Fraustadt
  3. Landkreis Freystadt i. Niederschles.
  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

See also

v • d • e
Territories and provinces of Prussia (1525–1947)
Before 1701
After 1701
Post-Congress of
Vienna (1814–15)
Territorial reforms
after 1918

Lower / Upper Silesia (1919) · Greater Berlin (1920) · Posen-West Prussia (1922) ·

Halle-Merseburg / Magdeburg / Kurhessen / Nassau (1944)
1 Became the Province of Posen in 1848.   2 From the Lower Rhine and Jülich-Cleves-Berg.


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