Old Western Pomerania

Old Western PomeraniaEducation and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution by Sascha O. Becker, Erik Hornung, and Ludger Woessmann. Accessed on 28 Jun 2012. or Old Hither Pomerania ( or Alt-Vorpommern, ) was the part of Western Pomerania that went to Prussia under the terms of the Treaty of Stockholm in 1720, now divided between Poland and Germany.

History

The name Old Western Pomerania was first used when that area of Swedish Pomerania first went to Prussia. The territory that had been remained with Sweden after the Treaty of Stockholm, and was later transferred to Prussia under the Congress of Vienna in 1815, was named New Western Pomerania or New Hither Pomerania.

Whilst New Hither Pomerania enjoyed a special legal status within the Prussian state after 1815, this was not the case for Old Western Pomerania or Farther Pomerania (Hinterpommern). Nevertheless, the Pomeranian Provincial Parliament, also formed in 1823, was elected separately by New Western Pomerania, Old Western Pomerania and Farther Pomerania.Theodor Wengler: Der Provinzialverband Pommern. Verzeichnis der Mitglieder des Provinziallandtages. Böhlau Verlag, Köln u. a. 2008, , p. 2 (Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Pommern. Series V, Vol. 44). Whilst New Western Pomerania was given its own Regional Parliament (for New Western Pomerania and Rügen) in 1823, a joint Regional Parliament for Old Hither Pomerania and Farther Pomerania was formed.Harald Lutter: Zur verfassungsgeschichtlichen Stellung des Provinzialverbandes Pommern und seiner ständischen Vorformen. In: Baltische Studien. Vol. 80 N.F., 1994, , p. 67. Both regional parliaments continued to exist until 1881.

With the gradual loss of New Hither Pomerania's special status, the names New and Old Western Pomerania also fell out of use.

Old Western Pomerania

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