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3 unusual facts about Kołobrzeg


Clemens August von Droste-Vischering

The Bishops of Münster and Paderborn, fired by the example of Clemens August, recalled the assent they had formerly given to the agreement; while Martin von Dunin, the Archbishop of Gnesen (Gniezno) and Posen (Poznań), was imprisoned at Kolberg (Kołobrzeg) for the same offence that had sent Clemens August to Minden.

Hermann Pluddemann

Hermann Friedhold Pluddemann, German historical painter, was born at Colberg

Jan Pogány

Jan Pogány (real name Jan Maślankiewicz-Pogány) born in Kołobrzeg, Poland) is a Polish classical composer, conductor and cellist.


1989 Belgian MiG-23 crash

-- not Skurigin, see Talk Page -->, the pilot, departed from the Soviet Bagicz Airbase near Kołobrzeg, Poland.

Horst Caspar

In 1943 Caspar was engaged by the director Veit Harlan to play the young August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, who in 1807 defended the Prussian fortress town of Kolberg against the French during the Napoleonic Wars, in Kolberg, an epic film produced on the orders of Goebbels.

PZL SM-2

Three SM-2s are preserved in museums in Poland: in Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków, in Kołobrzeg and Drzonów.


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