Editing Piła (section)

===As a provincial capital within the Weimar Republic===
[[File:Piła knsulat.JPG|thumb|Pre-war Polish Consulate, today a museum]]
After World War I, in 1918, Poland regained independence, and the [[Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919)|Greater Poland Uprising]] broke out, which aim was to reintegrate the region with Poland. Local Poles were persecuted for their pro-Polish stance by the Germans, who also held Polish insurgents in the local prison.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pw.ipn.gov.pl/pwi/pamiec/miejsca-pamieci/9331,PILA-miasto-powiatowe.html|title=Piła (miasto powiatowe)|website=Instytut Pamięci Narodowej|access-date=25 October 2020|language=pl}}</ref> After the signing of the [[Treaty of Versailles]], and after much protest by the German majority of its population, Schneidemühl was not included in the [[Polish Second Republic]]. After the Greater Poland Uprising, the new Polish-German border ran {{convert|5|km|spell=in|abbr=off}} south of the city.
 
On 21 July 1922 Schneidemühl became the administrative centre of the new [[Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen|Frontier March of Posen-West Prussia Province]], a body of self-rule encompassing those three disconnected parts of the former Province of Posen and the westernmost parts of the [[Province of West Prussia]], which were not ceded to Poland and of the Posen-West Prussian [[Schneidemühl (region)|Schneidemühl Region]], a body of central government supervision comprising the same provincial area. In 1925, with the sudden influx of the ''Optanten'', inhabitants of areas annexed by Poland who opted not to become Polish citizens and left for the reduced German Reich. Schneidemühl's population swelled by about 10,000 to 37,518, creating considerable publicity in Germany.

In 1930 Schneidemühl replaced Tütz ([[Tuczno]]) as seat of the Catholic jurisdiction, which was promoted from [[Apostolic administration]] to [[Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Schneidemühl|Territorial Prelature of Schneidemühl]] within the [[Eastern German Ecclesiastical Province]]. The city experienced a short period of growth followed by a period of decline in the early 1930s. High unemployment and the ineffectiveness of local administration led to rising support for the [[National Socialist German Workers Party|NSDAP]].