Kopań, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Kopań ( German Kopahn ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) in a circle Sławno ( Schlawe ).
Geographical location
The farming village Kopań located in Pomerania, about four kilometers northeast of Darłowo and 18 kilometers northwest of Sławno ( Schlawe ) at the south end of the inland lake Jezioro Kopań ( German: Vitter lake, named after the nearby at the north-eastern lakeshore village Vitte, Polish: Wicie ) on the edge of a Grundmoränenzunge. Neighboring locations are: in the west Darlowo, in the east Palczewice ( Palzwitz ) and in the south Cisowo ( Zizow ). The Baltic Sea is one kilometer away.
Place name
The place name Kopań / Kopahn ( formerly Copan, Copan ) probably goes back to Wendish origin. " Kopa " means " hill ".
History
The area around Kopahn is very old building ground. This is proved by archaeological finds from Germanic and Wendish time. In 1223, the village Bantowe, which was immediately adjacent to Kopahn and soon became formless, transferred to the Order of St. John, who sold it in 1320 to the Swenzonen Peter of Neuchâtel. In old documents from 1285/1287 a St. John Gerhard of Kopan is called.
The first mention in a document originally created as Angersdorf Kopahn in 1333 At that time the Swenzonen had the place of -. According to their extinction - fell to the Office Rügenwalde.
In 1648, named in Kopahn: 1 Schulze, 11 farmers and 9 Kossäten. 1818 lived 216 inhabitants here. Their number increased to 1867 to 269 in 1875 and was still 275 and 1939 only 222
Bite 1945 Kopahn with communities Köpnitz (now Polish: Kopnica ) Palzwitz ( Palczewice ) and Zizow ( Cisowo ) in the District Zizow district Schlawe i Pom. united in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. The registry office was in Palzwitz, while the local court was in Rügenwalde.
Towards the end of World War II Kopahn was occupied on March 7, 1945 by Soviet troops. After the war Kopahn was put together with all Pomerania under Polish administration. It wandered to Polish civilians of houses and farms seized. Kopahn was renamed by the Polish authorities in Kopań. The expulsion of the German population by the Poles took place on 17 August 1946.
Kopahn is today a district of Gmina Darłowo in powiat Slawienski the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. Today there are about 130 people.
Church
Before 1945, the population of Kopahn predominantly Protestant denomination was. The village belonged to Köpnitz ( Kopnica ) Palzwitz ( Palczewice ), bag height ( Zakrzewo ) and Zizow ( Cisowo ) to the parish church in the county Zizow Rügenwalde ( Darłowo ) in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. Last German minister was Pastor Kurt Müller.
Today Cisowo is a branch church of the parish Barzowice ( Barzwitz ) in the deanery in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg Darłowo of the Catholic Church in Poland. Protestant church members belong to the parish of Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
School
In Kopahn was until 1945 a class elementary school.
Kopań and the Pied Piper of Hamelin
Some researchers Kopań is associated with the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. A house inscription in Hameln complements donated in 1300, renovated in 1572 and 1660 destroyed glass image in the market Hamelin Church, recalled that 130 Hamelin " spent and lost tions Koppen " were. Was this Koppen the Kopahn at Rügenwalde?
In fact some of the Pied Piper a person who fits heraldic here: the knight Count Nikolaus von Spiegelberg, whose family had connections from the Hameln area after Pomerania. So he might have been seen on July 22, 1284 in the Baltic Sea from the hill at Kopahn from last time here in a ship with the Hämelschenburg children.
Such interpretation of the Pied Piper is certainly attributed to a certain probability in research.
Personality of the place
- Albert Fischer (* December 15, 1849, †? ), Farm owner, member of the Prussian Landtag 1900-1918, initiator of the school budget in Rügenwalde
Traffic
The place can be reached via Cisowo ( Zizow ) on a side road, two kilometers northeast of Darłowo of the province road 203 ( Koszalin ( Koszalin ) - Ustka ( Stolpmünde ) ) branches. The nearest train station is Darłowo endpoint at the PKP line 418 of Korzybie ( Zollbrueck ) and Sławno comes.