Wikipedia:WikiProject Prussia/Provinces

This is a subsection of WikiProject Prussia dealing with the various Prussian provinces.

Scope
This subsection of WikiProject Prussia is a collaboration to define a structure for articles about the various Prussian provinces over time, providing consistency between all the articles, and a standard connection to the parent and descendant articles.

This subsection was formerly known as WikiProject Prussian Provinces.

Parentage

 * Parent: WikiProject Prussia
 * In collaboration with WPFC: Subdivisions bureau
 * See also subsections for: Regierungsbezirke, Kreise and Standesamter

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 hierarchy (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

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

Status of province entries
This section is still under construction

Provinces formed before 1815

 * Province of West Prussia
 * Province of East Prussia
 * New East Prussia
 * South Prussia
 * New Silesia
 * Silesia

Provinces formed 1815-1918

 * Brandenburg
 * Jülich-Cleves-Berg
 * Lower Rhine
 * Pomerania
 * Posen
 * Saxony
 * Silesia
 * Westphalia
 * Rhine Province
 * Prussia
 * Hohenzollern
 * Hanover
 * Hesse-Nassau
 * Schleswig-Holstein

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.