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Note: In keeping with the 1900-rule at WeRelate, places in Germany are organized as they were in 1900 when Germany was known as the German Empire.
In 1822, Rheinland province was established in Preußen, Germany by joining the provinces of Lower Rhine and Jülich-Cleves-Berg. The capital of Rheinland province was the city of Coblenz (Koblenz).
In 1900, Rheinland province was in Preußen, Germany. It was divided into five districts for administrative purposes [1]:
- Aachen (English/French: Aix-la-Chapelle)
- Coblenz - with Ehrenbreitstein, Wesel, and Saarlouis
- Düsseldorf
- Köln (English: Cologne)
- Trier (English: Treves)
In 1946, Rheinland province was abolished. The territory was divided into the newly founded German states of
- * Hessen (English: Hesse),
- * Nordrhein-Westfalen (English: North Rhine-Westphalia), and
- * Rheinland-Pfalz (English: Rhineland-Palatinate).
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The Rhine Province, also known as Rhenish Prussia or synonymous with the Rhineland, was the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, 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 million inhabitants. The Province of Hohenzollern was militarily associated with the Oberpräsident of the Rhine Province.
The Rhine Province was bounded on the north by the Netherlands, on the east by the Prussian provinces of Westphalia and Hesse-Nassau, and the grand duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, on the southeast by the Palatinate (a district of the Kingdom of Bavaria), on the south and southwest by Lorraine, and on the west by Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands.
The small exclave district of Wetzlar, wedged between the grand duchy states Hesse-Nassau and Hesse-Darmstadt was also part of the Rhine Province. The principality of Birkenfeld, on the other hand, was an enclave of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, a separate state of the German Empire.
In 1911, the extent of the province was ; its extreme length, from north to south, was nearly , and its greatest breadth was just under . It included about of the course of the Rhine, which formed the eastern border of the province from Bingen to Koblenz, and then flows in a north-northwesterly direction inside the province, approximately following its eastern border. It is now part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, and Hesse.
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