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{{Short description|Governmental district of East Prussia from 1905 to 1945}}(File:Prusy Wschodnie de.svg|thumb|300px|East Prussian Regierungsbezirk Allenstein (red), established in 1905)Regierungsbezirk Allenstein was a Regierungsbezirk, or government region, of the Prussian province of East Prussia from 1905 until 1945. The regional capital was Allenstein (present-day Olsztyn). The territory today is part of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

History

The government region was created on 1 November 1905 as the third East Prussian Regierungsbezirk out of the southern districts of the two original administrative regions Gumbinnen and Königsberg, which had been established in 1815. It comprised the south of the former Duchy of Prussia; the lands of the Allenstein and Rößel districts had belonged to the Prince-Bishopric of Warmia, annexed by Prussia in 1772. In the 1920 East Prussian plebiscite all the Allenstein Region plus the {{Interlanguage link multi|Oletzko (district)|de|3=Kreis Oletzko|lt=District of Oletzko}} was part of the Allenstein Plebiscite precinct, with the electorate voting for remaining with Germany by more than 97%.In 1945 following World War II, Regierungsbezirk Allenstein was dissolved when East Prussia was partitioned between the Republic of Poland and the Soviet Union (Kaliningrad Oblast) according to the resolutions at the Potsdam Conference.

Demographics

The Allenstein region was ethnically mixed in 1910, with German, Polish and Masurian speakers. {| class="wikitable sortable"weblink Nationalitätenkarte der östlichen Provinzen des Deutschen Reiches nach dem Ergebnissen der amtlichen Volkszählung vom Jahre 1910 entworfen von Ing. Jakob Spett, 1781-Iv.c., 1910, Justus Perthes, !1910 census!Population! colspan="2" |German! colspan="2" |Masurian! colspan="2" |Polish! colspan="2" |Bilingual!Allenstein Region!543,469!274,320!50.48%!175,016!32.20%!73,154!13.46%!19,532!3.59%

Olsztyn>Allenstein Urban|33,077|29,344|88.71%|99|0.30%|2,249|6.80%|1,325|4.01%

Olsztyn>Allenstein Rural|57,919|22,825|39.41%|520|0.90%|32,766|56.57%|1,782|3.08%

Pisz>Johannisburg|51,399|16,379|31.87%|29,141|56.70%|4,203|8.18%|1,620|3.15%

Giżycko>Lötzen|41,209|26,352|63.95%|11,412|27.69%|1,595|3.87%|1,802|4.37%

EÅ‚k>Lyck|55,579|27,138|48.83%|19,407|34.92%|6,348|11.42%|2,590|4.66%

Nidzica>Neidenburg|59,416|20,871|35.13%|25,150|42.33%|10,462|17.61%|2,645|4.45%

Szczytno>Ortelsburg|69,935|20,218|28.91%|43,513|62.22%|3,390|4.85%|2,463|3.52%

Ostróda>Osterode|74,666|43,508|58.27%|26,695|35.75%|2,130|2.85%|2,279|3.05%

Reszel>Rössel|50,472|43,189|85.57%|48|0.10%|6,512|12.90%|723|1.42%

MrÄ…gowo>Sensburg|50,097|24,496|48.90%|19,031|37.99%|3,499|6.98%|2,310|4.61%

Districts

(File:Regierungsgebäude Allenstein.jpg|thumb|District office in Allenstein)As of 31 December 1937:{| class="wikitable" style="width:80px"! District! Capital (present name)! Area! Population

	Olsztyn)>	52	sqmi	| 46,513 (1939)

Allenstein (district)	3=Kreis Allenstein		Olsztyn)>	1302.58	sqmi	| 57,077 (1939)

Johannisburg (district)	3=Kreis Johannisburg		Pisz)Jańsbork between 1945-1946.>	1684	sqmi	| 52,672 (1939)

Lötzen (district)	3=Kreis Lötzen		Giżycko)Lec between 1945-1946.>	898.8	sqmi	| 47,681 (1939)

Lyck (district)	3=Kreis Lyck		EÅ‚k)>	1114	sqmi	| 56,129 (1939)

Neidenburg (district)	3=Kreis Neidenburg		Nidzica)Nibork between 1945-1946.>	1157	sqmi	| 39,486 (1939)

Ortelsburg (district)	3=Kreis Ortelsburg		Szczytno)>	1703	sqmi	| 72,146 (1939)

Osterode in East Prussia (district)	3=Kreis Osterode in Ostpreußen		Ostróda)>	1551	sqmi	| 75,879 (1939)

Rößel (district)	3=Kreis Rößel		Biskupiec)>	853	sqmi	| 51,086 (1939)

Sensburg (district)	3=Kreis Sensburg		Mrągowo)Żądźbork between 1945-1947.>	1234	sqmi	| 52,746 (1939)

		11547	sqmi	| 568,024

Notes

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