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Département de la Lorraine

District of Lorraine
Bezirk Lothringen (in German)
Présidence de Lorraine (in French)
District of Alsace-Lorraine
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1871–1918/1920 Blason département fr Moselle.svg

Coat of arms of Lorraine Department

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Location of Lorraine Department
Lorraine district with its subdistricts in different colours (1890)
Capital Metz
Government regional administration
Bezirkspräsident
 •  1871–1872 G.H. von Donnersmarck
 •  1872–1873 Botho zu Eulenburg
 •  1875–1876 Robert von Puttkamer
Präsident des Bezirkstags (speaker of parl.)
 •  1874–1881 Auguste-François Adam
 •  1881–1911 Eduard Jaunez
 •  1911–1918 Georges Ditsch
Legislature Bezirkstag (parliament)
Historical era 19th and 20th century
 •  Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871
 •  seized to Germany 19 May 1871 1871
 •  reorganisation acc.
to German standards

1871
 •  Bezirkstag est. 1874
 •  reg. carsign VI C 1906
 •  French occupation 1918–1920
 •  seized to France
Versailles Tr. (effective)

10 January 1920 1918/1920
 •  reconstituted as
Moselle dept.
1920
Area
 •  1900 6,223 km2(2,403 sq mi)
 •  1910 6,228 km2(2,405 sq mi)
Population
 •  1900 564,829 
Density 90.8 /km2  (235.1 /sq mi)
 •  1910 655,211 
Density 105.2 /km2  (272.5 /sq mi)
Political subdivisions 8 rural districts (as of 1901)
1 urban district (Metz)

Coat of arms of Lorraine Department

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Bezirk Lothringen (French: Présidence de la Lorraine; i.e. Department of Lorraine), also called German Lorraine (deutsches Lothringen), was the name for a Department ("Bezirk") in the western part of Alsace-Lorraine when it was part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918.

The District of Lorraine was unlike Prussian government regions no simple governorate but a corporation of self-rule of the pertaining rural and urbans subdistricts and cantons, similar to regions in the then neighbouring Bavaria (Palatinate). Thus the district parliaments delegated deputies to the General Council (parliament), the Bezirkstag von Lothringen (French: Conseil Général de la Lorraine). The capital of the District of Lorraine was Metz.

The department comprised the districts ("Kreise") of :

The district of Lorraine corresponds exactly to the current département of Moselle. After the outbreak of the Second World War and the defeat of France in 1940, the département of Moselle, renamed CdZ-Gebiet Lothringen, was added to the Gau Westmark on 30 November 1940.

(German: Bezirkspräsident/French: Président de district)

Coordinates: 49°02′N 6°39′E / 49.033°N 6.650°E / 49.033; 6.650


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