page_title: Legnica
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Legnica / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Administrative regions of the Prussian province Silesia, Germany in 1914 Deutsch: Regierungsbezirke der preußischen Provinz Schlesien, Deutschland 1914
context_page_description: Legnica is a city in Poland. The river Katzbach runs through Legnica. There live over 100,000 people. The city is in west part of Poland. Legnica is near a bigger city, Wrocław.
  Legnica is in the middle of Silesia. The area used to be part of Prussia, and Legnica was the capital of one of the three Silesian government areas.
context_section_description: Silesia, a Prussian Province, is divided in 3 administrative regions (Regierungsbezirk): Liegnitz, Breslau and Oppeln.
  The Regierungsbezirk Liegnitz comprised the following districts:
  Urban districts (German: Stadtkreise)
  Glogau
  Görlitz
  Hirschberg
  Liegnitz
  Rural districts (German: Landkreise)
  Bunzlau
  Fraustadt
  Freystadt
  Glogau
  Görlitz
  Goldberg
  Grünberg
  Hirschberg
  Hoyerswerda
  Jauer
  Landeshut
  Lauban
  Liegnitz
  Löwenberg
  Lüben
  Rothenburg
  Sprottau
caption: Administrative regions of Silesia, 1914