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Encyclopedia Britannica



KOPENICK (CoPENICK)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 897 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KOPENICK (CoPENICK) , a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, on an
island
  in the Spree, 9 M. S.E. from Berlin by the railway to Furstenwalde. Pop. (1905), 27,721. It contains a royal residence, which was built on the site of a palace which belonged to the
great
  elector, Frederick William. This is surrounded by gardens and contains a fine banqueting
hall
  and a chapel. Other buildings are a Roman Catholic and a
Protestant
  church and a teachers'
seminary
 . The varied
industries
  embrace the manufacture of glass, linoleum, sealing-wax and ink. In the vicinity is Spindlersfeld, with important dye-works.
Kopenick, which
dates
  from the 12th century, received municipal rights in 1225. Shortly afterwards, it became the bone of contention between Brandenburg and Meissen, but, at the issue of the
feud
 , remained with the former, becoming a favourite residence of the electors of Brandenburg. In the palace the famous court martial was held in 1730, which condemned the crown-prince of Prussia, afterwards Frederick the
Great
 , to death. In 1906 the place derived ephemeral fame from the daring feat of a cobbler, one Wilhelm Voigt, who, attired as a captain in the army, accompanied by soldiers, whom
XV. 2qhis apparent rank deceived, took the mayor prisoner, on a fictitious charge of having falsified accounts and absconded with a considerable sum of municipal money. The " captain of Kopenick " was arrested, tried, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment.
See Graf zu Dohna, Kurfiirstliche Schlosser in der Mark Brandenburg (Berlin, 1890).


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