Karlshuld is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the district of
Neuburg-Schrobenhausen
Neuburg-Schrobenhausen is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of Pfaffenhofen, Aichach-Friedberg, Donau-Ries and Eichstätt, and by the city of Ingolstadt.
History
The dis ...
in
Bavaria
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in
Germany
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History
The locality was created in the course of the draining of the ''
Donaumooses'' begun at 1790, in the year 1795 it became a colony of Karl Freiherr v. Eckart and was named after ''
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria
Charles Theodore (german: link=no, Karl Theodor; 11 December 1724 – 16 February 1799) reigned as Prince-elector and Count Palatine from 1742, as Duke of Jülich and Berg from 1742 and also as prince-elector and Duke of Bavaria from 1777 to his ...
''. The place was until 1840 seat of an aristocracy yard Mark (and/or a Patrimonialgerichts). 1804 had five times more than originally planned, already over 300 inhabitants. The living conditions were in particular in the beginning, very hard, and improved in the course of the decades only little. 1824 were created a little later again a closed spinning mill, 1898 developed the moorland laboratory. 1888 gave it already 1,227 inhabitants. The place kept courses of a distressed area, until the Second World War when, like in many places, a fundamental upswing began.
Today Karlshuld is a prosperous municipality, which won in the last years also as residence - not least due to the proximity to Ingolstadt - at attractiveness.
In the years 1970 to 1985 took place the incorporations of the municipality parts Grasheim, Kochheim, Nazibühl and Neuschwetzingen.
References
Neuburg-Schrobenhausen
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