Editing Chojnice (section)

===Prussia (1772–1871) and German Empire (1871–1920)===
After the [[first partition of Poland]] the town became part of the [[Kingdom of Prussia]] in 1772. The Prussians abolished the local government, which was restored in 1809.<ref name=cm/> The cloth industry collapsed.<ref name=wl21/> The town was subject to [[Anti-Polish sentiment|anti-Polish]] policies, including [[Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions|Germanisation]]. At the local gymnasium, Polish was taught only two hours a week, in 1815-1820 and 1846–1912, and in 1889 the history of Polish literature was removed from the curriculum, while Polish history was not taught at all.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Szews|first=Jerzy|year=2014|title=Filomaci chojniccy|magazine=Zeszyty Chojnickie|language=pl|location=Chojnice|publisher=Chojnickie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk|issue=29|page=41}}</ref> Probably in 1830 a secret organization of Polish students was established in the local school.<ref name=js42>Szews, p. 42</ref> Some Polish students joined the Polish uprisings of [[November Uprising|1830]] and [[January Uprising|1863]] in the [[Russian Partition]] of Poland.<ref name=js42/> The organisation probably ceased to exist in the 1860s, because in 1870, a new youth [[philomath]] organization ''Mickiewicz'' was founded, named after the Polish national poet [[Adam Mickiewicz]].<ref name=js43>Szews, p. 43</ref> In 1901, due to the threat of repressions by the German authorities, the organization was dissolved to be reactivated after a few months.<ref name=js43/> Among local philomaths were prominent Polish-Kashubian activists and writers [[Aleksander Majkowski]], [[Florian Ceynowa]] and [[Jan Karnowski]], future minister and senator in independent Poland {{interlanguage link|Leon Janta-Połczyński|pl}}, priest, historian and co-founder of the Toruń Scientific Society {{interlanguage link|Stanisław Kujot|pl}}, co-founder and president of the first Polish scientific society in the [[United States]] Dominik Szopiński, as well as priests and activists {{interlanguage link|Bernard Łosiński|pl}} and {{interlanguage link|Konstantyn Krefft|pl}}, who were later murdered by the Germans in [[Nazi concentration camps]] in 1940.<ref>Szews, p. 45-47</ref> One of the main escape routes for insurgents of the unsuccessful Polish [[November Uprising]] from partitioned Poland to the [[Great Emigration]] led through the town.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Umiński|first=Janusz|year=1998|title=Losy internowanych na Pomorzu żołnierzy powstania listopadowego|magazine=Jantarowe Szlaki|volume=4 |language=pl|issue=250|page=16}}</ref> In 1911 the first Polish secret [[scout troop]] in the [[Prussian Partition]] of Poland was established in the town by {{interlanguage link|Szczepan Łukowicz|pl}}, who as a military officer later fought in defense of Poland during the [[Polish–Soviet War]] (1920) and the German [[Siege of Warsaw (1939)]], and was murdered by the Germans during [[World War II]].<ref>Szews, p. 44. 46</ref>

In 1864 a telegraph connection to [[Szczecin]] (then ''Stettin'') began operation. In 1868 the town was connected to the railway network. This improved industrial development quite considerably. In 1870 a gas power plant was installed. The town was connected in 1873 by the railway to Dirschau ([[Tczew]]) and in 1877 by railway to [[Stettin]]. In 1886 a new hospital was built in the town. A new railway line to Nakel ([[Nakło]]) was opened in 1894. In the year of 1900 the town obtained both a water supply system and an electricity power plant. In 1902 a railway line to Berent ([[Kościerzyna]]) was opened. During the time span 1900–1902 the [[Konitz Affair|Konitz ritual murder case & antisemitic pogrom]] was committed by the Germans. In 1909 a sewage system was installed in the town. In 1912 the ''Gazeta Chojnicka'', the first Polish language newspaper, appeared in the town.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://historiachojnic.com/lata-miedzywojenne/14-z-kart-historii/lata-miedzywojenne/94-rola-i-znaczenie-prasy-lokalnej.html |title=ROLA I ZNACZENIE PRASY LOKALNEJ |access-date=1 June 2020}}</ref> Chojnice experienced the heaviest [[Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions|Germanisation]] in Gdańsk Pomerania.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Mynarczyk|first=Paweł Piotr|year=2010|title=Sytuacja polityczna i społeczna w Chojnicach od roku 1920 do przewrotu majowego|magazine=Zeszyty Chojnickie|language=pl|location=Chojnice|publisher=Chojnickie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk|issue=25}}</ref><ref name="muzeum" />