Germany was first unified as a nation in An important gazetteer, Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-lexikon des deutschen Reichs , "Meyer's Gazetter" for short , details the place names of villages, towns, counties kreise , and higher jurisdictions used at that time.
You can also consult Rhineland Rheinland Parish Record Inventories to learn the Lutheran or Catholic parish that would have kept records for your town. At the end of both World Wars, the boundaries of the states were changed dramatically, as areas of Germany were distributed among the Allied nations.
Eventually, after re-unification in , the states of Germany settled into what they are today. It is also necessary to understand Germany by this system, as it affects the locations of civil registration offices, archives, and mailing addresses used in correspondence searches.
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Views Read View source View history. Rhine Province en. Loss of Saar en. Flag of Saar. Coat of Arms of the Rheinland. German Empire - Prussia - Rhine. Rheinprovinz en. Province en. POINT 7. In , the extent of the province was ; its extreme length, from north to south, was nearly , and its greatest breadth was just under. It included about of the course of the Rhine, which formed the eastern border of the province from Bingen to Koblenz , and then flows in a north-northwesterly direction inside the province, approximately following its eastern border.
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