Province of Lower Silesia

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Province of Lower Silesia Provinz Niederschlesien (German)
Province of Prussia
1919–1938 1941–1945
Flag Coat of arms
Province of Lower Silesia (red) within the Free State of Prussia.
Capital	Breslau (Wrocław)
Area
• 1925	26,616 km2 (10,276 sq mi)
Population
• 1925	3,132,135
History
• Established	1919
• Merged into Province of Silesia	1938–1941
• Disestablished	1945
Preceded by Succeeded by Province of Silesia State of Brandenburg State of Saxony District of Lower Silesia
Today part of	Germany Poland

The Province of Lower Silesia (German: Provinz Niederschlesien; Silesian German: Provinz Niederschläsing; Polish: Prowincja Dolny Śląsk; Silesian: Prowincyjŏ Dolny Ślōnsk) was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1919 to 1945. Between 1938 and 1941 it was reunited with Upper Silesia as the Province of Silesia. The capital of Lower Silesia was Breslau (now Wrocław in Poland). The province was further divided into two administrative regions (Regierungsbezirke), Breslau and Liegnitz.^[1]

The province was not congruent with the historical region of Lower Silesia, which now lies mainly in Poland. It additionally comprised the Upper Lusatian districts of Görlitz, Rothenburg and Hoyerswerda in the west, that until 1815 had belonged to the Kingdom of Saxony, as well as the former County of Kladsko in the southeast.

The province was disestablished at the end of World War II and with the implementation of the Oder–Neisse line in 1945, the area east of the Neisse river fell to the Republic of Poland. The smaller western part was incorporated into the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg.