New Western Pomerania

Neuvorpommern, also called the New -Vorpommern part of Pomerania, who came to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

The area of Neuvorpommern equivalent to the previous Swedish Pomerania in the expansion, as it was left after the Treaty of Stockholm in 1720, that includes Western Pomerania north of the Peene, including the island of Rügen. With particular emphasis on Rügen also the name Neuvorpommern and Rügen was used for Neuvorpommern. The already in 1720 by Sweden ceded to Prussia, Pomerania was part contrary called this Altvorpommern.

Neuvorpommern became part of the Prussian province of Pomerania and trained there since 1818 the Regierungsbezirk Stralsund, but still retained a certain amount of time a special legal status. Thus, a local parliament of Neuvorpommern and Rügen was formed from the previous stalls Neuvorpommerns 1823, which existed until 1881. The next 1823 also formed the Pomeranian Provincial Parliament was elected separately by Neuvorpommern, Altvorpommern and Pomerania. With the gradual loss of this special status, the name was uncommon Neuvorpommern.