The Netze District or District of the Netze (german: link=no, Netzedistrikt or '; pl, Obwód Nadnotecki) was a territory in the

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from 1772 until 1807. It included the urban centers of

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(''Bromberg''), Inowrocław (''Inowraclaw''), Piła (''Schneidemühl'') and Wałcz (''Deutsch Krone'') and was given its name for the

Noteć Noteć (; , ) is a river in central Poland with a length of (7th longest) and a basin area of .Royal Prussia, a land of the Polish Crown since 1466, King

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also seized the adjacent lands of the ''

Prowincja Province was the largest territorial subdivision in medieval and Renaissance-era Poland, and later in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The term designated each of the two largest constituents of the state: depending on the period, includin ...

'' of

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to the south from the

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in the First Partition of Poland of 1772. At first Royal Prussia, i.e. the former Pomeranian,

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and Chełmno voivodeships, but with the exception of the former Prince-Bishopric of Warmia, was organized as the

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. On the other hand, the adjacent annexed areas of the Greater Polish

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and

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s, as well as of the

Kuyavia Kuyavia ( pl, Kujawy; german: Kujawien; la, Cuiavia), also referred to as Cuyavia, is a historical region in north-central Poland, situated on the left bank of Vistula, as well as east from Noteć River and Lake Gopło. It is divided into three ...

n lands of western Inowrocław Voivodeship along the Noteć (''Netze'') formed the separate Netze District under governor Franz Balthasar Schönberg von Brenkenhoff. Von Brenkenhoff however soon was accused of the waste of public funds in the course of the construction of the

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, and from 1775 on the Netze District was administrated with West Prussia. With the 1793

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, the remainder of the Greater Polish province was annexed by Prussia and formed the new province of

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. After the Prussian defeat in the

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and the Greater Poland Uprising, large parts of the southern Netze District according to the 1807

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fell to the Bydgoszcz Department of the

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. The remaining northwestern territory around Wałcz and Kamień was incorporated into the West Prussian province. At the

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in 1815, the demarcation line was confirmed as the northern border of the newly established

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. The southern territories of the former Netze District were administered within the Bromberg Region (Polish: ''Rejencja''), while the northwestern part belonged to the West Prussian of Marienwerder Region (''Kwidzyn'').

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Map of Poznań area in 1789
showing Netze District
Map of Central Europe in 1786
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