Gmina Kartuzy
Gmina Kartuzy is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the town of Kartuzy, which lies approximately 29 kilometres (18 mi) west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
The gmina covers an area of 205.28 square kilometres (79.3 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 31,100 (out of which the population of Kartuzy amounts to 15,263, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 15,837).
The gmina contains part of the protected area called Kashubian Landscape Park.
Villages
Apart from the town of Kartuzy, Gmina Kartuzy contains the villages and settlements of:
Kartuzy
Kartuzy [karˈtuzɨ] (Kashubian/Pomeranian: Kartuzë; German: Karthaus) is a town in the historic Eastern Pomerania (Pomerelia) region of northwestern Poland. Previously in Gdańsk Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998, Kartuzy since 1999 is the capital of Kartuzy County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999.
Geographical location
Kartuzy is located about 32 kilometres (20 miles) west of Gdańsk and 35 km (22 miles) south-east of the town of Lębork on a plateau at an altitude of approximately 200 metres (656 feet) above sea level in the average. The plateau, which is divided by the Radaune lake, comprises the highest parts of the Baltic Sea Plate. In the west of this lake are the highest points of the headwaters of rivers Leba, Slupia and Bukowina at an altitude of up to 271 metres (889 feet). A hill in the south of the lake is 331 metres (1,086 feet) high.
History
Kartuzy was established about 1380 as a monastery for Carthusian monks descending from Prague in the Kingdom of Bohemia, after whom it received its name. The charterhouse was vested with large estates by the State of the Teutonic Order. According to the Second Peace of Thorn the area passed to the Polish Crown and it became part of Royal Prussia in 1466.
Kartuzy railway station
Kartuzy is a PKP railway station in Kartuzy (Pomeranian Voivodeship), Poland. The station is now operating freight transport only, but SKM is planning to open connections from Gdynia to Kartuzy. There are also plans of reactivating Gdańsk Wrzeszcz - Stara Piła line, what means connection between Kartuzy and Gdańsk.
History
The first line to reach Kartuzy was Glincz-Kartuzy line in 1886. The line to Pruszcz Gdański was closed for all transport on May 29, 1994. The connection to Star Piła was closed for passenger transport in 1997. Connection with Lębork was closed on June 23, 2000, connection with Sierakowice in 2004
On November 14, 1901 line from Somonino reached Kartuzy as a freight line (one month later opened as a passenger line as well). The line was closed for passenger transport on February 1, 2003
Station buildings
The station building is now occupied mostly by shops. Locomotives depot (roundhouse) is still present together with turntable but in a very bad condition. Second depot was destroyed in 1945 by Soviets. On one of auxiliary tracks PKP class Ty2-14 locomotive is placed as a monument. Two signal boxes were servicing this station (Ky and Ky2). There is still present steam locomotives servicing object, with water and coal loading devices.
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