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HesseNassau

Hesse-Nassau, officially the Province of Hesse-Nassau, was a province of Prussia from 1868 to 1945. It was created after Prussia annexed the Electorate of Hesse (Hesse-Kassel) and the Duchy of Nassau following the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, uniting their territories into a single administrative unit.

The province covered two geographically separate areas: the Kurhessen region around Kassel in the north and

Throughout its existence, Hesse-Nassau served as an administrative framework for Prussia’s central German territories, balancing rural

Following World War II, the province was dissolved by the Allied authorities. Its lands were allocated mainly

the
Nassau
region
around
Wiesbaden
in
the
west-southwest.
It
was
subdivided
into
two
Regierungsbezirke,
Kassel
and
Wiesbaden,
and
included
major
urban
centers
such
as
Kassel,
Frankfurt
am
Main,
and
Wiesbaden.
lands
with
growing
industrial
towns
and
shaping
local
governance,
infrastructure
development,
and
regional
planning.
to
the
new
German
state
of
Hesse
and
to
Rhineland-Palatinate,
with
the
name
Hesse-Nassau
disappearing
and
its
former
territory
contributing
to
the
postwar
federal
states
of
Germany.