Province of Saxony
| Province of Saxony Provinz Sachsen (German) |
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| Province of Prussia | ||||||
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| Capital |
Magdeburg 52°8′N 11°37′E / 52.133°N 11.617°ECoordinates: 52°8′N 11°37′E / 52.133°N 11.617°E |
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| History | ||||||
| • | Established | 1816 | ||||
| • | Redivided | 1 July 1944 | ||||
| • | Partly reformed | early 1945 | ||||
| • | Disestablished | 1945 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| • | 1939 | 25,529 km2(9,857 sq mi) | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| • | 1816 | 1,197,053 | ||||
| • | 1905 | 2,978,679 | ||||
| • | 1939 | 3,662,546 | ||||
| Density | 143.5 /km2 (371.6 /sq mi) | |||||
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The Province of Saxony (German: Provinz Sachsen), also known as Prussian Saxony (Preußische Sachsen), was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Free State of Prussia from 1816 until 1945. Its capital was Magdeburg.
It was formed by the merging of territories, which were formerly the northern part of the Kingdom of Saxony and were ceded to Prussia in 1815, with the duchy of Magdeburg, the Altmark, the Principality of Halberstadt, the formerly-French Principality of Erfurt and other districts, which had been comprised in Prussia from an earlier date.
The province was bounded by Hesse-Nassau, Hanover and Brunswick to the west, Hanover and Brandenburg to the north, Brandenburg and Silesia to the east, and the remnant kingdom of Saxony and small Thuringian states to the south. Its shape was very irregular and entirely surrounded portions of Brunswick and of Thuringian states and itself did possess several exclaves, and its northern portion being almost severed from the southern by the duchy of Anhalt. The majority of population was Protestant, with a Catholic minority (numbering about 8% as of 1905) considered part of the diocese of Paderborn. The province sent 20 members to the Reichstag and 38 delegates to the Prussian House of Representatives (Abgeordnetenhaus).
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