Cholbergiensis. Around the year
1000, when the city was part of Poland, it became seat of the Diocese of Kołobrzeg.
During High Middle Ages, the town was expanded with an additional settlement a
few kilometers north of the stronghold and chartered with Lübeck law. The city
later joined the Hanseatic League. Within the Duchy of Pomerania, the town was
the urban center of the secular reign of the Cammin bishops and their residence
throughout the High and Late Middle Ages. When it was part of Brandenburgian
Pomerania during the Early Modern Age, it withstood Polish and Napoleon's
troops in the Siege of Kolberg. From 1815, it was part of the Prussian province
of Pomerania. During the 19th century a Polish community started to organize
itself. As the Nazis took power in Germany, Poles and Jews were discriminated,
determined to be subhuman and eventually subjected to genocide. In 1945 Polish
and Soviet troops seized the town, while the remaining German population which
had not fled the advancing Red Army was expelled. Kołobrzeg, now part of
post-war Poland and devastated in the preceding Battle of Kolberg, was rebuilt but
lost its status as the regional center to the nearby Koszalin
