Danziger Höhe


The Danziger Höhe was an administrative district founded in 1887 and dissolved in 1939. The district administration was based in City of Danzig, which itself did not form part of the district but an independent city. The area Danziger Höhe covered is now within Poland.

History

The district was formed from parts of the previous within the Danzig Region, West Prussia Province, within the Kingdom of Prussia, itself a part of Germany since 1871. In 1910, the district had 53,506 inhabitants, of which 23,955 were Protestant and 29,206 Roman Catholic. 9.7% had officially declared that they spoke the Kashubian language. When the regulations of the Treaty of Versailles became effective in 1920, the Danziger Höhe became a district in the new Free City of Danzig. The district was enlarged by a number of municipalities from neighbouring districts, which else were seized by the Second Republic of Poland as part of Polish Pomerania. After the German conquest, the district was merged in December 1939 in a new bigger district of the occupational government.

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