Province of Brandenburg
| Province of Brandenburg Provinz Brandenburg |
||||||
| Province of Prussia | ||||||
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
Anthem Brandenburglied |
||||||
.svg) |
||||||
| Capital |
Potsdam (1815–1827) Berlin (1827–1843) Potsdam (1843–1918) Charlottenburg (1918–1920) Berlin (1920–1946) |
|||||
| History | ||||||
| • | Established | 1815 | ||||
| • | Greater Berlin Act | 1 October 1920 | ||||
| • | Disestablished | 1946 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| • | 1939 | 38,275 km2(14,778 sq mi) | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| • | 1939 | 3,023,443 | ||||
| Density | 79 /km2 (204.6 /sq mi) | |||||
| Today part of |
 Germany Poland
|
|||||
The Province of Brandenburg (German: Provinz Brandenburg) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1815 to 1946, from 1871 within the German Reich. The Prussian core territory comprised the bulk of the historic Margraviate of Brandenburg (except for the Altmark) and the Lower Lusatia region.
The Province comprised large parts of the North German Plain, stretching from the Elbe river in the west to beyond the Oder in the east, where the Neumark region bordered on the Prussian Grand Duchy of Posen (Province of Posen from 1848). Other neighbouring provinces were Pomerania in the northeast, Silesia in the southeast, and Prussian Saxony in the southwest. Brandenburg also shared a common border with the grand duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz in the northwest as well as with Anhalt in the west.
Beside the Elbe and Oder river areas, the province covered large parts of the Spree and Havel basin. The largest cities were Berlin, located in the centre together with the growing suburbs of Spandau, Charlottenburg, Schöneberg and Neukölln. Larger towns were the royal residence Potsdam and the regional capital Frankfurt (Oder), furthermore Landsberg (present–day Gorzów Wielkopolski) in the east, the historic capital Brandenburg an der Havel as well as Cottbus, Forst and Guben (Gubin) in Lower Lusatia.
...
Wikipedia