Klępsk

Klępsk
Village
Church of the Visitation of Mary in Klępsk
Klępsk
Coordinates: 52°6′N 15°43′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lubusz
County	Zielona Góra
Gmina	Sulechów
Population
• Total	520
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	FZI
Primary airport	Zielona Góra Airport
Voivodeship roads

Klępsk [klɛmpsk] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sulechów, within Zielona Góra County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) east of Sulechów and 23 km (14 mi) north-east of Zielona Góra.

The local landmark is the Church of the Visitation of the Holy Virgin Mary, which is listed as a Historic Monument of Poland.

History

Interior of the Church of the Visitation

In the 10th century, the area became part of the emerging Polish state under its first historic ruler Mieszko I. Since 1138, it formed part of the Duchy of Silesia, a provincial duchy of Poland, and later it also belonged to the Duchy of Głogów. In 1482, it fell to the Margraviate of Brandenburg, as a fief of Bohemia (Czechia). From 1701 it was a part of the Kingdom of Prussia, and from 1871 it was also part of Germany, within which it was administratively located in the province of Brandenburg. Following Germany's defeat in World War II in 1945, the area became again part of Poland.

In the 19th century the village was a center of the Old Lutheran movement, whose members refused to join the state-sponsored Prussian Union (Evangelical Christian Church) and suffered persecution. Some of the local Old Lutherans immigrated to Australia where they founded the village of Klemzig, South Australia.

External links

• Media related to Klępsk at Wikimedia Commons