Kopanica
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Greater Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Wolsztyński | ||
| Gmina : | Siedlec | ||
| Geographic location : | 52 ° 5 ' N , 15 ° 55' E | ||
| Residents : | 921 | ||
| Postal code : | 64-225 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 68 | ||
| License plate : | PWL | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Next international airport : | Poznan-Ławica | ||
Kopanica (German: Kopnitz) is a village that belongs to the Siedlec municipality in Poland's Greater Poland Voivodeship . The place had city rights until 1934.
Geographical location
The place is located in the historical region of Posen an der Obra , about seven kilometers southwest of Siedlec, 13 kilometers west of Wolsztyn ( Wollstein ), 20 kilometers east of Sulechów ( Züllichau ) and 80 kilometers southwest of the city of Posen .
history
From 1479 to 1934 Kopanica had city rights. The town burned down several times in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Until the end of the First World War Kopnitz belonged to the district of Bomst , administrative district Posen , the Prussian province of Posen of the German Empire . After the end of the war, the city was added to Poland despite its German majority and its immediate border location. In the interwar period it was the smallest town in the Second Polish Republic . There was a border crossing on the German-Polish border directly at Kopanica. After the Second World War , the German-speaking population was driven west by the local Polish administrative authority.
Demographics
| year | population | Remarks |
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| 1797 | 380 | partly Poland |
| 1800 | 460 | 86 houses, u. a. 8 Jews |
| 1816 | 657 | |
| 1837 | 825 | |
| 1843 | 898 | catholic and evangelical church |
| 1861 | 1040 | 120 residential buildings |
| 1867 | 1072 | on December 3rd |
| 1871 | 983 | including 440 Protestants, 540 Catholics, ten Jews (100 Poles ); according to other data 983 inhabitants, of which 460 Protestants, 508 Catholics, 15 Jews |
| 1885 | 912 | 522 Catholics, 380 Evangelicals and 10 Jews in 124 residential buildings |
| 1900 | 831 | |
| 1905 | 850 | 525 Catholics, 322 Protestants in 125 residential buildings (629 Germans, 221 Poles) |
Attractions
- Catholic Church of the Assumption of Mary, built in 1885 on the site of an older church in neo-Gothic style
- Former Protestant church, built 1858–1859 in neo-Romanesque style
literature
- Heinrich Wuttke : City book of the country Posen. Codex diplomaticus: General history of the cities in the region of Poznan. Historical news from 149 individual cities . Leipzig 1864, pp. 336–337 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Heinrich Wuttke : City book of the country of Posen. Codex diplomaticus: General history of the cities in the region of Poznan. Historical news from 149 individual cities . Leipzig 1864, pp. 336–337 .
- ^ A b Royal Statistical Office: The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population. Edited and compiled from the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. Part IV: The Province of Posen , Berlin 1874, pp. 96–97, item 3 ( E-Copy, pp. 103-104 ).
- ^ Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State . 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, pp. 1445-145, item 3.
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources. Booklet V. Poznan Province . Berlin 1888, p. 94-95 .
- ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . 6th edition, Volume 11, Leipzig / Vienna 1907, p. 469 .
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources. Booklet V. Poznan Province . Berlin 1908, p. 8-9 .