When the property of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kammin was secularized during the Protestant Reformation in 1534, their secular reign including the Kolberg area became intermediately ruled by a Lutheran titular bishop, before it was turned into a Sekundogenitur of the House of Pomerania.

When in 1276 they became the sovereign of the town of Kolberg also, they moved their residence there, while the administration of the diocese was done from nearby Köslin.

The ruins of German Kolberg became Polish ' Kolobrzeg '.

Later on he became Governor of Kolberg in Pomerania.

However Wegener became an actor of the state and appeared in the 1944 – 45 propaganda film Kolberg, an epic about the Napoleonic Wars.

When Kolberg was part of Brandenburgian Pomerania during the Early Modern Age, it withstood Polish and Napoleon's troops in the Siege of Kolberg.

Kolberg, with most of Farther Pomerania, was granted to Brandenburg-Prussia in 1648 by the Treaty of Westphalia and, after the signing of the Treaty of Stettin ( 1653 ), was part of the Province of Pomerania.

Polish folk music was collected in the 19th century by Oskar Kolberg, as part of a wave of Polish national revival.

** German Main Headquarters is moved to Kolberg as a part of preparation for using all forces against Greater Poland.

From that field he escaped to Kolberg, where he played a very prominent part in the celebrated siege of 1806 – 07, as the commander of a Freikorps, raiding behind the French lines.

During the war the studio made several part entertainment, part propaganda feature films using the Agfacolor process, such as Münchhausen ( 1943 ) and Kolberg ( 1945 ).

Today Kolberg is in Poland, but during 1305 it formed part of the country which is known today as Germany.

In 1805 Italian troops served on garrison duty along the English Channel, during 1806-1807 they took part in the sieges of Kolberg and Danzig and fought in Dalmatia.

* December 16 – Seven Years ' War: After four months of siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolberg.

Frederick acted on the defensive with consummate skill, and the capture of the Prussian fortress of Kolberg on Christmas Day 1761, by Rumyantsev, was the sole Russian success.

Early in 1807, the Prussian Army sent Major von Gneisenau as commandant to Kolberg, which, though small and ill-protected, with the additional assistance of Schill and Nettelbeck succeeded in holding out against Napoleonic forces until the Peace of Tilsit.

After Kolberg is saved, the film returns to 1813 after the Convention of Tauroggen, a time when Napoleon was defeated in Russia, and Prussian leaders wonder whether it is time to turn openly against him.

In 1761 he besieged and took the Prussian fortress of Kolberg, thus clearing for Russian armies the path to Berlin.

Within the Duchy of Pomerania, Kolberg was the urban center of the secular reign of the Cammin bishops and their residence throughout the High and Late Middle Ages.

He focused on making alliances with Sweden and England to ensure that they would not interfere on Denmark ’ s behalf, while forces were concentrated at Kolberg in Russian occupied Pomerania.

* Kołobrzeg, in Middle Pomerania, known as Kohlberg, aka Kolberg until the end of World War II

Roon was born at Pleushagen, near Kolberg ( Kołobrzeg ), in Pomerania.

The areas stretching from Kolberg ( Kołobrzeg ) to Stettin ( Szczecin ) were ruled by Ratibor's brother Wartislaw I and his descendants ( House of Pomerania, also called Griffins, of which he was the first ascertained ancestor ) until the 1630s.

Meanwhile, Polish Piasts managed to acquire parts of eastern Pomerania during the late 960s, where the short-lived Diocese of Kołobrzeg ( Kolberg ) was installed in 1000 AD.

He was born in Hamburg as a son of merchant Louis Bernheim ( later changed to Ludwig Berheim, born 7 December 1815 in Fürstenberg ) and Emma Simon ( born 15 April 1834 in Kolberg ), who since 1834 lived in Hamburg.

Other roles included Elske in Die Reise nach Tilsit, the wholesome German wife whose husband betrays her with a Polish woman, but finally returns, repentant ; Elisabeth in Immensee, who marries a rich landowner to forget her unrequited love, and in the end decides to remain faithful even after she is widowed and her lover returns ; Aels in Opfergang, a woman who dies after her love affair ; Luise Treskow in The Great King, a miller's daughter who encourages Frederick the Great ; and Maria in Kolberg, a peasant girl who loyally supports the resistance to Napoleon and is the only survivor of her family.

The Polish First Army participated in the Vistula – Oder Offensive and the Battle of Kolberg ( 1945 ) before participating in its final offensive with the Battle of Berlin.

Finally, having been threatened with execution, and convinced that Kolberg can only be saved if a great leader can be found, Nettelbeck sends Maria on the dangerous journey to Königsberg where the Court of Prussia has retreated to, to meet with the King and with Queen Louise, who was described by Napoleon as " the only man in Prussia ".

Six other light cruisers were ordered to raise steam and join the defense as soon as they could: moored on the river Ems ;,,, and Kolberg from the river Jade ; Danzig and München from Brunsbüttelkoog on the river Elbe.

Most of the other characters were renamed to match the new setting ; for instance, the name of Beck's assistant Kolberg was changed to Colbert.

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.

Because of a lack of anti-tank weapons, German battleships used their guns to support the defenders of Kolberg until nearly all of the soldiers and civilians had been evacuated.

Kept in semi-confinement at the fortress of Kolberg until 1824, he was sentenced to imprisonment for two years.

The town, devastated in the preceding Battle of Kolberg, was rebuilt but lost its status as the regional center to the nearby Koszalin.

During the Thirty Years ' War, Kolberg was occupied by imperial forces from 1627 to 1630, and thereafter by Swedish forces.

At the end of the war, however, Kolberg was returned to Prussia.

In 1944, the city was designated a " stronghold " ( Festung ) — Festung Kolberg.

The 1807 siege was used for the last Nazi propaganda film, Kolberg shortly before the end of the war by Joseph Goebbels.

The mother tongue of a number of soldiers serving in the garrison of Kolberg was Polish.

His father, Johann Christoph Droysen, was an army chaplain who had been present at the celebrated siege of Kolberg in 1806 – 1807.

Five days later, Kolberg was appointed state secretary in the Ministry of Defence.

Ramler was born in Kolberg.

Krenz was born in Kolberg in what was then Germany, now Poland.

She was also briefly portrayed in an extremely reverential manner in the 1945 propaganda film Kolberg.

A statue by Christian Daniel Rauch was erected in Berlin in 1855, and in memory of the siege of 1807, the Kolberg grenadier regiment received his name in 1889.