Kartuzy

Kartuzy is a town within the historic Eastern Pomerania area of northwestern Poland. Previously in Gdansk Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998, Kartuzy when you consider that 1999 is the capital of Kartuzy County in Pomeranian Voivodeship seeing that 1999. Kartuzy was installed about 1380 as a monastery for Carthusian monks descending from Prague in the Kingdom of Bohemia, after whom it acquired its call. The charterhouse changed into vested with huge estates through the State of the Teutonic Order. According to the Second Peace of Thorn the area surpassed to the Polish Crown and it became a part of Royal Prussia in 1466.

The Carthusian monks had the close by woodlands cleared out, and peasants from the neighbouring Duchy of Pomerania have been endorsed to settle and farm within the newly cleared regions. During the route of the Protestant Reformation Kartuzy and its surrounding area were included into the possessions of Cistercian Oliwa Abbey in 1565. The area turned into annexed by using Prussia within the First Partition of Poland in 1772. The Prussian government subsequently dissolved the monastery in 1826. Around that point the settlement of Karthaus changed into fairly insignificant. It began to play a more monetary position after 1841 when the lands of the monastery had been parcelled out.