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As a result of the Versailles Peace Treaty (1919) after World War I, Pomerania was divided between Poland and Germany. Most of the German-Prussian province of West Prussia fell to Poland as the so-called Polish Corridor , and constituted the Pomeranian Voivodeship (województwo pomorskie) with the capital at Toruń (Thorn).
The history of Pomerania starts shortly before 1000 AD, with ongoing conquests by newly arrived Polan rulers. Before that, the area was recorded nearly 2000 years ago as Germania, and in modern times Pomerania has been split between Germany and Poland. Its name comes from the Slavic po more, which means "land at the sea".
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In 1814, as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, Swedish Pomerania was ceded to Denmark in exchange for Norway in the Treaty of Kiel, and in 1815, as a result of the Congress of Vienna, transferred to Prussia.
Interviews with contemporary witnesses open up biographical approaches and narrate the history of the region from different perspectives. Here an overview of the permanent exhibitions on the geological history and regional history of Pomerania – from landscape development to the present day.
If you are looking for an alternative resource with topographical maps from the early 1900s, please see the Maps Archive of Western Poland (Archiwum Map Zachodniej Polski). Meyers Gazetteer is the most comprehensive searchable database of all Pomeranian places.
The map is the first cartographic, approximately accurate representation of Pomerania, based on surveys and mathematical calculations. A kind of 'land register', it presents a unique collection of contemporary knowledge about the country at the time: coats of arms from 353 noble families, views of 49 cities, the family tree of ruling classes ...
Genealogists with ancestors in Hinterpommern, those lands east of the Oder-Neisse Rivers, must look to the country of Poland for their genealogical records and help. In 1938 all of this territory was German Pomerania. Pomerania was originally a land in northeast Germany.
