Wikipedia:WikiProject Prussia/Provinces
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[edit] Scope
This subsection of WikiProject Prussia is a collaboration to define a structure for articles about the various Prussian provinces over time, providing consistancy between all the articles, and a standard connection to the parent and descendant articles.
This subsection was formerly known as WikiProject Prussian Provinces.
[edit] Structure
Use Template:Infobox Former Subdivision
The article should start with a good introduction.
- Geography - Brief description of the province's geography, including lakes, rivers, mountains.
- History - A brief outline of the major events in the province's history, primarily those that dealt with the province itself.
- (Subdivisions) - Provide a table (or list?) of the Kreise, organized by Regierungsbezirke. Links to both allow the user to browse down through the hierachary (Regierungsbezirk) or to jump down to a particular Kreis.
- Miscellaneous topics - if any.
- External links - if any.
- Categories - years of establishment and disestablishment. For example, the province of Hanover belongs to the categories 1868 establishments and 1946 disestablishments
Any maps used should also be placed in Portal:Atlas

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)
[edit] Example pages
- An example of a high-level article is: Province of Posen
- A current example of an article with the minimum requirements given above is: Province of Brandenburg
[edit] Status of province entries
This section is still under construction
[edit] Provinces formed before 1815
[edit] Provinces formed 1815-1918
- Brandenburg
- Jülich-Cleves-Berg
- Lower Rhine
- Pomerania
- Posen
- Saxony
- Silesia
- Westphalia
- Rhine Province
- Prussia
- Hohenzollern
- Hanover
- Hesse-Nassau
- Schleswig-Holstein
[edit] Provinces formed during the time of the Weimar Republic
Provinces formed during Nazi rule will not be covered here - at that time Prussia and all other German states had been abolished (de facto) and reorganised into Reichsgaue, which is not the same as these provinces.