page_title: Duchy of Brunswick
section_title: Districts
hierarchical_section_title: Duchy of Brunswick / Districts
caption_attribution_description: Schloss Wolfenbüttel, Late 1850s-mid 1860s. Provenance: The estate of Ernst August von Hannover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland
context_page_description: The Duchy of Brunswick was a historical German state. Its capital was the city of Brunswick.
  It was established as the successor state of the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In the course of the 19th-century history of Germany, the duchy was part of the German Confederation, the North German Confederation and from 1871 the German Empire. It was disestablished after the end of World War I, its territory incorporated into the Weimar Republic as the Free State of Brunswick.
context_section_description: The Duchy of Brunswick was subdivided into six districts (Kreise) in 1833. The districts were further subdivided into cities or towns (Städte) and more rural townships (Ämter).
caption: Wolfenbüttel Castle in the mid-19th century
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