South Prussia

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South Prussia
Provinz Südpreußen (de)
Prusy Południowe (pl)
Province of Prussia
1793–1807

South Prussia 1795–1806
CapitalPoznań (Posen)
Warsaw (Warschau) from 1795
Area 
• 1806
53,000 km2 (20,000 sq mi)
Population 
• 1806
1,503,508
History 
25 September 1793
• Annexed Warsaw
1795
9 July 1807
Political subdivisions
Warszawa
(Warschau)
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Poznań Voivodeship
Kalisz Voivodeship
Gniezno Voivodeship
Sieradz Voivodeship
Łęczyca Voivodeship
Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship
Płock Voivodeship
Rawa Voivodeship
Masovian Voivodeship
Duchy of Warsaw

South Prussia (German: Provinz Südpreußen; Polish: Prusy Południowe) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1793 to 1807.

History

South Prussia was created out of territory annexed in the Second Partition of Poland and in 1793 included:

The capital of the province was Poznań (1793-1795) at first, afterwards Warsaw (1795-1806), which was added in 1795 after the Third Partition, but it was actually administered by the General Directory (General-Direktorium) in Berlin.

South Prussia bordered on the Brandenburgian

Silesia Province and New Silesia, a smaller province including the former Duchy of Siewierz
, which was administered from South Prussia.

Some German colonists invited to settle on the province's noble estates were known as

Hauländer
, while others who settled on royal crown lands were known as Kolonisten. The term Hauländer is a German corruption of the original Hollender who negotiated special terms of democratic rule for their settlements which came to be known as Hollendry. Many Germans still lived under the Schulzendorf style of village government and therefore were not Hauländer.

The underdeveloped province was administered with fiscal profit being a primary goal. The first provincial minister Otto von Voss said that “South Prussia shall not have been bought at too high a price: it should be no burden to other provinces, it should even benefit them and the Prussian state”[1] Thus, while engaging in Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions, the Prussian state extracted more revenue than what it spent from the province and levied duties on goods from the province, which seriously discouraged its industrial development.[2]

Following

Polish uprising, the territory of South Prussia became part of the Duchy of Warsaw, a French client state, according to the 1807 Treaties of Tilsit. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, it was divided between the Prussian Grand Duchy of Posen and Congress Poland, a part of the Russian Empire
.

The General Directory records dealing with the history and genealogy of the Prussian part of Poland were taken from the Prussian archives by Napoleon Bonaparte soon after 1806 and transferred to Warsaw.

Demographics

In 1806 the province had 1,503,508 inhabitants.

Administration

Departments

It was subdivided into the Kammerdepartements Posen (Poznań), Kalisch (Kalisz), and Warschau (Warsaw).

Districts

Map South Prussia (Südpreussen) and the Departments of Posen, Kalisch, and Warschau, 1801-1807

In 1806, South Prussia consisted of three departments (Kriegs- und Domänen-Kammern) divided into the following districts or counties (Kreise):

Kalisch Department Posen Department Warschau Department

References

  1. ^ Denkschrift über die Verwaltung Südpreussens während der ersten Amtsperiode des Ministers von Voss, September 1794, in Ingeburg Bussenius, ed., Urkunden und Alten zur Geschichte der preussischen Verwaltung in Sudpreussen und Neuostpreussen 1793-1806(Frankfurt a.M., 1961), document 13.
  2. JSTOR 4545765
    .

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