Alsace–Lorraine
The Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine (German: Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen or Elsass-Lothringen, French: Terre d'Empire d'Alsace-Lorraine 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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| 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 | |||||
The territory has been part of France since then. In 2016 it became part of the Region of Grand Est.
Alsace–Lorraine Media
Elsässisches Fahnenlied Instrumentalversion
Changes of the boundaries of departments in Alsace and Lorraine before and after the German Empire's rule (1871-1918).
The general government of Elsass (1875) by A. Petermann
Alsace-Lorraine as general governement (1870) and as Reichsland (1871–1918): place names, administrative boundaries, borderlines of German dialects and linguistic development up to 1905.
The Black Stain[a] (1887) by Albert Bettannier[b]
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.
Patrouille à Saverne.
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
Media related to Alsace-Lorraine at Wikimedia Commons
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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