Everything about South Prussia totally explained
South Prussia (; ) was a
province of the
Kingdom of Prussia from 1793 to 1807. It was created out of territory annexed in the
Second Partition of
Poland and included the regions of
Greater Poland and
Masovia. The capital of the province was
Warsaw, which was added in 1795 after the Third Partition, but it was administered by the General Directory (
General-Direktorium) in
Berlin. In 1806 it had 1,503,508 inhabitants.
South Prussia encompassed territory between
Prussian Silesia, the
Netze District, and the rivers
Vistula and
Pilica. It was subdivided into the Kammerdepartements Posen (
Poznań), Kalisch (
Kalisz), and Warschau (
Warsaw).
German colonists invited to settle on the province's noble estates were known as
Hauländer, while those who settled on royal crown lands were known as
Kolonisten.
Following
Napoleon Bonaparte's victory in the
War of the Fourth Coalition and a
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.
Districts
In 1806, South Prussia consisted of three departments (
Kriegs- und Domänen-Kammern) divided into the following districts or counties (
Kreise):
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