West Prussia (district)
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The district of West Prussia was a district of East Prussia from 1920 to 1938 and was also known as the county of Marienwerder (today Kwidzyn). The county was formerly a part of the Duchy of Prussia but was incorporated into the Province of West Prussia in 1773.
After West Prussia became a part of the Second Polish Republic according to the Treaty of Versailles, in some parts of former provinces referenda were allowed to decide to which state each county should belong. In Marienwerder county the vote was to remain with the Weimar Republic, and it was incorporated into East Prussia. Major cities in the district of West Prussia were Elbing, Marienburg, and Marienwerder. The western parts of the former provinces of West Prussia and Posen became the new border province of Posen-West Prussia.
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Territories and Provinces of Prussia (1525 – 1947)
Before 1701: Prussia | Brandenburg | Farther Pomerania | Magdeburg | Halberstadt | Cleves | Mark | Ravensberg | Minden |
Colonies of Brandenburg-Prussia: Groß Friedrichsburg | Arguin | Crab Island | Tertholen
After 1701: Neuchâtel | Hither Pomerania | East Frisia | Silesia (1740) | Glatz (1763) | Polish Prussia, Netze District (1772) |
South Prussia (1793) | New East Prussia, New Silesia (1795)
Reorder after 1814–5: East Prussia & West Prussia (1824–78 joined to Prussia) | Brandenburg | Pomerania | Posen | Saxony | Silesia | Westphalia | Rhine Province (1822, Lower Rhine & Jülich-Cleves-Berg) | Hohenzollern (1850, Hohenzollern-Hechingen & Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) | Schleswig-Holstein, Hanover, Hesse-Nassau (1866–8)
Later administrational reforms: Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia (1919) | Greater Berlin, West Prussia (district) (1920) | Posen-West Prussia (1922) |
Halle-Merseburg, Magdeburg, Electoral Hesse, Nassau (1944)
