The Karthaus district was a

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...

n district that existed from 1818 to 1920. It was located in the part of

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that fell to

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after

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through the

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in 1920, as part of the

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. The capital of the district was Karthaus. From 1939 to 1945, the district was re-established as part of

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in occupied Poland. Today the territory of the district lies in the

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Pomeranian Voivodeship. Kreis_Karthaus_1818

History

With the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the territory of the future Karthaus district became part of the

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, and it was initially divided between the

Dirschau Tczew (, csb, Dërszewò; formerly ) is a city on the Vistula River in Eastern Pomerania, Kociewie, northern Poland with 59,111 inhabitants (December 2021). The city is known for its Old Town and the Vistula Bridge, or Bridge of Tczew, which pl ...

and Stargard districts in the province of West Prussia. On April 30, 1815, the area was made part of

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. As part of a comprehensive district reform, parts of the old Dirschau and Stargard districts were separated to form the new ''Carthaus district'' on April 1, 1818. The spelling of the name of the town and the district was changed to ''Karthaus,'' over the course of the 19th century. From December 3, 1829 to April 1, 1878, West Prussia and East Prussia were united to form the

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, which had belonged to the German Empire since 1871. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty, the Karthaus district had to be ceded by the

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on January 10, 1920. Most of the district fell to Poland and continued to exist as '' Powiat Kartuski'' in the new Pomeranian Voivodeship. Several communities in the east of the district fell to the Free City of Danzig and were assigned to the Danziger Höhe district. On November 30, 1920 there was an exchange of territory between Poland and

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. The localities Żukówko and Mühlchen, which had belonged to the Karthaus district in Poland, were transferred to the Bütow district in the Prussian Province of Pomerania, while the localities Pommersch Prondzonka, Althütte bei Buchwalde and Schellews were transferred from the Bütow district to Poland.

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