Province of Upper Silesia

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Oberschlesien Upper Silesia Province of Prussia ← 1919 — 1938 1941 — 1945 →   →   → Flag Coat of arms Upper Silesia (red), within the Free State of Prussia Capital Oppeln Kattowitz (after 1941) History  - Established 1919  - Merged with L. Silesia 1938 - 1941  - Disestablished 1945 Area  - 1925 9,702 km² (3,746 sq mi) Population  - 1925 est. 1,379,408       Density 142.2 /km²  (368.2 /sq mi)

The Province of Upper Silesia (German: Provinz Oberschlesien; Polish: Górny Śląsk; Silesian: Górny Ślonsk) was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1919 to 1945. It was reunited with Lower Silesia as the Province of Silesia between 1938 and 1941. The capital of Upper Silesia was Oppeln (Opole). The province was further divided into two administrative regions (Regierungsbezirke), Kattowitz and Oppeln.

The region of Upper Silesia now lies mainly in Poland (Opole and Silesian Voivodeships), with parts in the Czech Republic (Czech Silesia).

Contents 1 Administrative regions 1.1 Regierungsbezirk Kattowitz 1.1.1 Urban districts / Stadtkreise 1.1.2 Rural districts / Landkreise 1.2 Regierungsbezirk Oppeln 1.2.1 Urban districts / Stadtkreise 1.2.2 Rural districts / Landkreise 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] Administrative regions

As of January 1, 1945

[edit] Regierungsbezirk Kattowitz

[edit] Urban districts / Stadtkreise

1. City of Beuthen
2. City of Gleiwitz
3. City of Hindenburg in Oberschlesien
4. City of Kattowitz
5. City of Königshütte

[edit] Rural districts / Landkreise

1. Landkreis Bendsburg
2. Landkreis Beuthen-Tarnowitz
3. Landkreis Bielitz
4. Landkreis Kattowitz
5. Landkreis Krenau
6. Landkreis Ilkenau
7. Landkreis Pless
8. Landkreis Rybnik
9. Landkreis Saybusch
10. Landkreis Teschen
11. Landkreis Tost-Gleiwitz

[edit] Regierungsbezirk Oppeln

[edit] Urban districts / Stadtkreise

1. City of Nysa/Neisse
2. City of Opole/Oppeln
3. City of Racibórz/Ratibor

[edit] Rural districts / Landkreise

1. Landkreis Blachstädt
2. Landkreis Cosel
3. Landkreis Falkenberg in Oberschleisen
4. Landkreis Gross Strehlitz
5. Landkreis Grottkau
6. Landkreis Guttentag
7. Landkreis Kreuzburg in Oberschlesien
8. Landkreis Leobschütz
9. Landkreis Lublinitz
10. Landkreis Neisse
11. Landkreis Neustadt in Oberschlesien
12. Landkreis Oppeln
13. Landkreis Ratibor
14. Landkreis Rosenberg
15. Landkreis Warthenau

[edit] See also

• Silesian Voivodeship
• Opole Voivodeship
• Moravian-Silesian Region
• Territorial Association of Silesia

[edit] External links

• Volksabstimmungen 1920 und 1922 (German)

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)