Brandenburglied

The Brandenburglied was a music piece written for the Province of Brandenburg, then within the Kingdom of Prussia of the German Empire.

It was used in the province from 1906 to 1936.

In present days it is used as unofficial anthem of the German federal state of Brandenburg.

Territories and provinces of Prussia (1525–1947)

Before 1701	Duchy of Prussia Margraviate of Brandenburg Cleves / Mark / Ravensberg (1614) Farther Pomerania / Minden / Halberstadt (1648) Lauenburg–Bütow / Draheim (1657) Magdeburg (1680) Colonies Gold Coast Arguin St. Thomas

After 1701	Neuchâtel (1707) Guelders (1713) Minden-Ravensberg (1719) Western Pomerania (1720 / 1815) Silesia / Glatz (1742) East Frisia (1744) East / West Prussia (1772–73) South Prussia (1793) New East Prussia / New Silesia (1795)

Post-Congress of Vienna (1814–15)	Brandenburg Principality of Neuchâtel (1814–1848) Pomerania Grand Duchy of Posen¹ Saxony Silesia Westphalia Rhine Province² (1822) Province of Prussia (1824–1878) Hohenzollern (1850) Schleswig-Holstein / Hanover / Hesse-Nassau (1866–68)

Territorial reforms after 1918	Lower / Upper Silesia (1919) Greater Berlin (1920) Posen-West Prussia (1922) Halle-Merseburg / Magdeburg / Kurhessen / Nassau (1944)

¹ Became Province of Posen in 1848. ² From the Lower Rhine and Jülich-Cleves-Berg.

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