Alsace–Lorraine
The Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine (German: [Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) or Elsass-Lothringen, French: [Terre d'Empire d'Alsace-Lorraine] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) or Alsace-Moselle) was a territory created by the German Empire in 1871 after its victory in the Franco-Prussian War. It was made up of almost all of the French region of Alsace and about a quarter of Lorraine, hence its name. France took it back in 1918 and it became part of that country as a result of Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Nazi Germany de facto took it back in 1940 but France took it back in 1945.
| Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine Reichsland Elsaß–Lothringen | ||||||
| Imperial Territory of the German Empire | ||||||
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| Alsace–Lorraine within the German Empire | ||||||
| Capital city | Straßburg (Strasbourg) | |||||
| Government | Federal territory | |||||
| Head of State | ||||||
| - | 1871–1879 | Eduard von Möller (first, as Oberpräsident) | ||||
| - | 1918 | Rudolf Schwander(last, as Reichstatthalter) | ||||
| Legislature | Landtag | |||||
| - | Lower house | Núrto | ||||
| History | ||||||
| - | Treaty of Frankfurt | 10 May 1871 | ||||
| - | Disestablished | 1918 | ||||
| - | Treaty of Versailles | 28 June 1919 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | 1910 | 14,496 km2 (5,597 sq mi) | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | 1910 | 1,874,014 | ||||
| Density | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",". /km2 (Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",". /sq mi) | |||||
| Political subdivisions | Bezirk Lothringen, Oberelsass, Unterelsass | |||||
| Today part of | France | |||||
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The territory has been part of France since then. In 2016 it became part of the Region of Grand Est.
Alsace–Lorraine Media
- Alsace Lorraine departments evolution map-en.svg
Changes of the boundaries of departments in Alsace and Lorraine before and after the German Empire's rule (1871-1918).
- LASB K Hellwig 0895.jpg
The general government of Elsass (1875) by A. Petermann
- Verbreitung bestimmter Ortsnamen und Mundarten in Elsaß-Lothringen um 1905.png
Alsace-Lorraine as general government (1870) and as Reichsland (1871–1918): place names, administrative boundaries, borderlines of German dialects and linguistic development up to 1905.
- The Geography Lesson or "The Black Spot".jpg
The Black Stain[a] (1887) by Albert Bettannier[b]
- Alsace Lorraine.jpg
Statue située à la place Maginot (anciennement place Saint-Jean) à Nancy, intitulée Le Souvenir, commémorant la perte de l'Alsace et de la Moselle dans la guerre de 1870/71.
- Zabern Militärpatrouille.PNG
Patrouille à Saverne.
- Gare de Metz R01.jpg
The neo-Romanesque Metz railway station, built in 1908. Kaiser Wilhelm II instigated the construction of various buildings in Alsace–Lorraine that were to be representative of German architecture.
Other websites
- 16x16px Media related to Alsace-Lorraine at Wikimedia Commons
- 16x16px Alsace-Lorraine travel guide from Wikivoyage
- http://www.geocities.com/bfel/geschichte5b.html(Archived Archived 2009-10-24 at the Wayback Machine 2009-10-25) (in German)
- http://www.elsass-lothringen.de/ Archived 2020-10-30 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090730200508/http://geocities.com/CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Alsace_Lorraine.html
- France, Germany and the Struggle for the War-making Natural Resources of the Rhineland
- Elsass-Lothringen video Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Annuary of Cultur and Artists from Elsass-Lothringen (in French and German)
Coordinates: 48°40′N 7°00′E / 48.67°N 7°E
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