Province of Lower Silesia

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Niederschlesien
Lower Silesia

Province of Prussia

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1919 — 1938
1941 — 1945

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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.

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

City of Breslau
City of Brieg
City of Schweidnitz
City of Waldenburg

[edit] Rural districts / Landkreise

Landkreis Breslau
Landkreis Brieg
Landkreis Frankenstein
Landkreis Glatz
Landkreis Groß Wartenberg
Landkreis Guhrau
Landkreis Habelschwerdt
Landkreis Militsch
Landkreis Namslau
Landkreis Neumarkt
Landkreis Oels
Landkreis Ohlau
Landkreis Reichenbach (im Eulengebirge)
Landkreis Schweidnitz
Landkreis Strehlen
Landkreis Trebnitz
Landkreis Waldenburg
Landkreis Wohlau

[edit] Regierungsbezirk Liegnitz

[edit] Urban districts / Stadtkreise

City of Glogau
City of Görlitz
City of Hirschberg im Riesengebirge
City of Liegnitz

[edit] Rural districts / Landkreise

Landkreis Bunzlau
Landkreis Fraustadt
Landkreis Freystadt in Niederschlesien
Landkreis Glogau
Landkreis Görlitz
Landkreis Goldberg
Landkreis Grünberg
Landkreis Hirschberg
Landkreis Hoyerswerda
Landkreis Jauer
Landkreis Landeshut
Landkreis Lauban
Landkreis Liegnitz
Landkreis Löwenberg
Landkreis Lüben
Landkreis Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.)
Landkreis Sprottau

[edit] See also

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 · Western 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)