Wikipedia:WikiProject Prussia/Provinces

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Contents 1 Scope 2 Structure 3 Example pages 4 Status of province entries 4.1 Provinces formed before 1815 4.2 Provinces formed 1815-1918 4.3 Provinces formed during the time of the Weimar Republic

[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 Prussia Province as shown here.

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

[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

• East Prussia
• New East Prussia
• New Silesia
• Silesia
• South Prussia
• West Prussia

[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

• Lower Silesia
• Upper Silesia
• Berlin
• Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia

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.