Rhine Province
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| Province of Prussia | |||||
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| The Rhine Province (red), within the Kingdom of Prussia (blue), within the German Empire (black) | |||||
| Capital | Koblenz | ||||
| History | |||||
| - Established | 1822 | ||||
| - Loss of Saar | 1920 | ||||
| - Disestablished | 1946 | ||||
| Area | |||||
| - 1939 | 24,477 km2 9,451 sq mi | ||||
| Population | |||||
| - 1905 est. | 6,435,778 | ||||
| - 1939 est. | 7,931,942 | ||||
| Density | 324.1 /km² 839.3 /sq mi | ||||
| Political Subdivisions | Aachen </br> Cologne Düsseldorf Koblenz Trier | ||||
| Today part of | North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Hesse Baden-Württemberg Eupen-Malmedy | ||||
The Rhine Province (Rheinprovinz in German) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1822 to 1946. It was created from the provinces of the Lower Rhine and Jülich-Cleves-Berg. Its capital was Koblenz and in 1939 it had 8.0 million inhabitants.
In 1920, the Saar was separated from the Rhine Province and administered by the League of Nations until a plebiscite in 1935, when the region was returned to Germany. At the same time, in 1920, the districts of Eupen and Malmedy were transferred to Belgium (see German-Speaking Community of Belgium). In 1946, the Rhine Province was divided up between the newly-founded states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.
| Kingdom of Prussia | 1740: Silesia 1773: East Prussia | West Prussia | Netze District 1793: South Prussia 1795: New East Prussia | New Silesia 1815: Brandenburg | Jülich-Cleves-Berg | Lower Rhine | Pomerania | Posen | Saxony | Westphalia 1822: Rhine Province 1829: Prussia 1850: Hohenzollern 1867: Hanover | Hesse-Nassau | Schleswig-Holstein |  |
| Free State of Prussia | 1919: Lower Silesia | Upper Silesia 1920: Berlin 1922: Posen-West Prussia |
