Kopań (Darłowo)

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Kopań ( German  Kopahn ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ) in the Sławno ( Schlawe ) district.

Geographical location

The farming village is located in Western Pomerania , four kilometers north-north-east of Rügenwalde ( Darłowo ) and 18 kilometers north-west of Schlawe ( Sławno ) at the southern end of Lake Vitter ( Jezioro Kopań ), named after the village of Vitte (Polish: Wicie ) on the north-eastern shore of the lake a ground moraine tongue . Neighboring places 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 also Copan , Kopan ) probably goes back to Slavic origins. "Kopa" means "hill".

history

Kopahn am Vitter See, north-northeast of the Baltic Sea city of Rügenwalde and northwest of the city of Schlawe , on a map from 1910.

The area around Kopahn is very old settlement land. Archaeological finds from the Germanic and Wendish times prove this. In 1223 the village of Bantowe , which was right next to Kopahn and soon became desolate, was transferred to the Order of St. John , who sold it to the Swenzonen Peter von Neuchâtel in 1320 . In old documents from 1285/1287 a Johanniter Gerhard von Kopan is mentioned.

The Kopahn, originally laid out as an Angerdorf , was first mentioned in a document in 1333. At that time, the Swenzonen owned the place, which - after its extinction - fell to the Rügenwalde department .

In the year 1648 the following are mentioned in Kopahn: 1 Schulze, 11 farmers and 9 Kossaten . In 1818 216 people lived here. Their number rose to 269 by 1867 and was 275 in 1875 and only 222 in 1939.

Biss 1945 Kopahn was with the communities Köpnitz (today Polish: Kopnica), Palzwitz (Palczewice) and Zizow (Cisowo) in the district of Zizow in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. united in the administrative district of Köslin of the Prussian province of Pomerania . The registry office was in Palzwitz, while the responsible district court was in Rügenwalde .

Towards the end of the Second World War , Kopahn was occupied by Soviet troops on March 7, 1945 . After the end of the war it was placed under Polish administration together with the whole of Western Pomerania and was given the Polish place name Kopań . On August 17, 1946 , the local Polish administrative authorities evicted the local population .

The village is now part of the Gmina Darłowo in the Powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship . Today about 130 people live here.

church

Before 1945, the population of Kopahn was predominantly Protestant . The village belonged with Köpnitz (Kopnica), Palzwitz (Palczewice), Sackshöhe (Zakrzewo) and Zizow (Cisowo) to the parish Zizow in the parish of Rügenwalde (Darłowo) in the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Kurt Müller .

Today Cisowo is a branch church of the parish Barzowice ( Barzwitz ) in the deanery Darłowo in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland . Evangelical church members belong to the parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

A single-class elementary school existed in Kopahn until 1945.

Kopań and the Pied Piper of Hamelin

Some researchers associate Kopań with the legend of the Hamelin Pied Piper . A house inscription in Hameln supplements the glass picture in the Hamelin market church, which was donated around 1300, renovated in 1572 and destroyed in 1660, reminding of the fact that 130 Hamelin residents were "brought to Koppen and lost ". Was this Koppen the Kopahn at Rügenwalde?

Pied Piper Inscription

In fact, there is one person in the Pied Piper legend who heraldically fits here: the knight Count Nikolaus von Spiegelberg , whose family had connections from the Hamelin area to Western Pomerania . He could have been seen for the last time here in a ship with the Hämel children on July 22, 1284 in the Baltic Sea from the hill near Kopahn.

Such an interpretation of the Pied Piper legend is attributed a certain probability in research.

Personality of the place

  • Albert Fischer (* December 15, 1849, †?), Farm owner, member of the Prussian state parliament 1900–1918, initiator of the household school in Rügenwalde

traffic

The place can be reached via Cisowo ( Zizow ) on a spur road that branches off two kilometers northeast of Darłowo from the voivodship road 203 ( Koszalin ( Köslin ) - Ustka ( Stolpmünde )). The nearest train station is Darłowo, the end of the PKP line 418, which comes from Korzybie ( Zollbrück ) and Sławno.

literature

  • Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Vor and Hinter Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2: Description of the court district of the Royal. State colleges in Cößlin belonging to the Eastern Pomeranian districts . Stettin 1784, p. 853, paragraph (11).
  • Gorbandt: From the local history of the Kopahn community , in: From the home of Rügenwalde, 1978
  • Karl Rosenow : On the history of Kopahns and field names in the Kopahner Feldmark , in: Supplement to the Rügenwalder Zeitung, No. 6 and 7/1929
  • The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum 1988/1989
  • Hans Dobbertin: Where did the Hämel children move to? , Hildesheim 1955
  • Hans Dobbertin: The exodus of the Hämelschen children , Hameln 1958
  • Hans Dobbertin: Sources for the Pied Piper Legend , Hameln 1970
  • Gliewe: The Pied Piper of Hameln , Hameln 1959

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Coordinates: 54 ° 28 '  N , 16 ° 26'  E