Liegnitz (region)

In 1815, the districts of Bunzlau, Freystadt, Glogau, Goldberg, Grünberg, Liegnitz, Löwenberg, Lüben, Sagan and Sprottau as well as the lands of Prussian Upper Lusatia with the exception of Hoyerswerda were incorporated into the Liegnitz administrative region.

[1] In 1816, the three new districts of Görlitz, Lauban and Rothenburg were established in Upper Lusatia.

Other important cities in the administrative region were Görlitz, Grünberg, Glogau, Bunzlau, Hoyerswerda (since 1825) and Hirschberg.

In the northeast, it bordered the Province of Posen (the Grand Duchy of Posen until 1848; from 1919 the Poznań Voivodeship of Poland), in the northwest the Province of Brandenburg (Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt), in the southwest the Kingdom of Saxony (Free State of Saxony from 1918) and in the south the Austrian crown land of Bohemia (from 1919, Czechoslovakia).

At this time, the administrative region of Liegnitz belonged to the Province of Lower Silesia.