Alsace-Lorraine

The Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine (German: Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen or Elsass-Lothringen, French: Terre d'Empire d'Alsace-Lorraine or Alsace-Moselle) was a territory created by the German Empire in 1871 after its victory in the Franco-Prussian War. It was made up of almost all of the French region of Alsace and about a quarter of Lorraine, hence its name. France took it back in 1918 and it became part of that country as a result of Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Nazi Germany de facto took it back in 1940 but France took it back in 1945.

Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen  (German), Terre d'Empire d'Alsace-Lorraine  (French)
Imperial Territory of the German Empire
← 1871–1918 →
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem Elsässisches Fahnenlied "The Alsatian Flag's song"
Alsace-Lorraine within the German Empire
Capital		Straßburg (Strasbourg)
Government		Federal territory
Reichsstatthalter
•	1871–1879	Eduard von Möller (first)
•	1918	Rudolf Schwander (last)
Legislature		Landtag
History
•	Treaty of Frankfurt	10 May 1871
•	Disestablished	1918
•	Treaty of Versailles	28 June 1919
Area
•	1910	14,496 km2 (5,597 sq mi)
Population
•	1910	1,874,014
	Density	129.3 /km2  (334.8 /sq mi)
Political subdivisions		Bezirk Lothringen, Oberelsass, Unterelsass
Today part of		France

Map of Territory

The territory has been part of France since then. In 2016 it became part of the Region of Grand Est.

Other websites

• Media related to Alsace-Lorraine at Wikimedia Commons
• Alsace-Lorraine travel guide from Wikivoyage
• http://www.geocities.com/bfel/geschichte5b.html (Archived 2009-10-25) (in German)
• http://www.elsass-lothringen.de/ (in German)
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090730200508/http://geocities.com/CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Alsace_Lorraine.html
• France, Germany and the Struggle for the War-making Natural Resources of the Rhineland
• Elsass-Lothringen video
• Annuary of Cultur and Artists from Elsass-Lothringen (in French and German)