Prussia's Last Fling: The Annexation of Hanover, Hesse, Frankfurt, and Nassau, June 15 - October 8, 1866
Hans A. Schmitt
On October 6, 1866, in Hanover and on 8 Kassel, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt am Main, civil military ceremonies completed the Prussian annexations of Kingdom Hanover, Electorate Hesse-Kassel, Duchy Nassau, Free City Frankfurt. Together with subsequent incorporation Schleswig-Holstein January 12, 1867, this augmentation King William I's realm transferred more than five million German subjects twenty-eight thousand square miles to Prussia closed physical gap between east central main body kingdom its prosperous Westphalian Rhenish districts. For first time a Hohenzollern subject could travel from Russian border at Memel old Carolingian capital Aachen Belgian frontier without setting foot territory another state.
Central European History