Province of West Prussia
| Province of West Prussia Provinz Westpreußen |
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| Province of the Kingdom of Prussia (until 1918) and the Free State of Prussia | ||||||
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| Capital |
Marienwerder (1773–1793, 1806–1813) Danzig (1793–1806, 1813–1919) |
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| History | ||||||
| • | Established | 1773 | ||||
| • | Division by Napoleon | 1806 | ||||
| • | Restored | 1815 | ||||
| • | Province of Prussia | 1824–1878 | ||||
| • | Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | ||||
| • | Disestablished | 1922 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| • | 1890 | 25,534 km2(9,859 sq mi) | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| • | 1890 | 1,433,681 | ||||
| Density | 56.1 /km2 (145.4 /sq mi) | |||||
| Political subdivisions |
Danzig Marienwerder |
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The Province of West Prussia (German: Provinz Westpreußen; Kashubian: Zôpadné Prësë; Polish: Prusy Zachodnie) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1824 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); it also briefly formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia until 1919/20. It was created out of the earlier Polish province of Royal Prussia following the First Partition of Poland. In February 1920, following Germany's defeat in 1918, West Prussia was divided: the mainly Slavic-speaking central parts became the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic, also known as the Polish Corridor; the city of Danzig became the Free City of Danzig, a semi-autonomous city-state under the protection of the League of Nations; the remaining territory was retained by the Free State of Prussia/Weimar Republic, with the western parts being joined to what remained of the former Province of Posen to form the new Posen-West Prussia Province, and the eastern parts being joined to the Province of East Prussia as Regierungsbezirk West Prussia. The territory was included within Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia 1939–45, after which it became part of Poland.
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