Kolobrzeg is a city in Middle Pomerania in northwestern Poland

Kolobrzeg is a city in Middle Pomerania in northwestern Poland with 50,000 inhabitants (2000). Parsęta Kołobrzeg is located on the river on the south coast of the Baltic Sea (in the middle section was divided by the River Oder and Vistula). Being the capital of Kołobrzeg County in West Pomerania province since 1999, previously in Koszalin province (1950-1998).

This settlement was founded in the 9th century, but traces of the earliest settlements in the area of ​​the city from the 6th century. In early history, Kołobrzeg is the main port in the Baltic Sea and produces a lot of salt, which became the most expensive merchandise at the time.
City at the end of Pomerania was conquered several times, and first included (or included again, since the discovery of new archaeological signs of) the kingdom of Poland by Mieszko I of Poland in 972. After the Congress of Gniezno in 1000, Holy Roman Emperor Otto III gave Poland the right to form a separate church hierarchy. One of the newly formed diocese located in Kołobrzeg, which is under the archdiocese Gniezno. Kolberg was the first bishop of Hochseegau Reinbern. Diocese and direct relationship with the Polish kingdom ended when Bolesław I Chrobry withdraw its troops from the area around 1013, pursued by the inhabitants of Pomerania pagans who refused to convert to Christianity.