Editing Koszalin (section)

===Late Modern Age===
[[File:Koszalin - Góra Chełmska Żołnierzom Polskim.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Monument to [[November Uprising|Polish insurgents]] from 1831 on Chełmska Hill]]
The city was occupied by [[First French Empire|French]] troops in 1807 after the [[War of the Fourth Coalition]]. Following the [[Napoleonic wars]], it became the capital of [[Fürstenthum (district)|Fürstenthum District]] ([[Districts of Prussia|county]]) and [[Köslin (region)|Regierungsbezirk Cöslin]] ([[Regierungsbezirk|government region]]) within the [[Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)|Province of Pomerania]]. The Fürstenthum District was dissolved on 1 September 1872 and replaced with the [[Köslin (district)|Cöslin District]] on December 13. Between 1829 and 1845, a road connecting Cöslin (Koszalin) with [[Szczecin|Stettin (Szczecin)]] and [[Gdańsk|Danzig (Gdańsk)]] was built.<ref name=MUZ/> Part of this road, from Cöslin (Koszalin) to the nearby town of [[Sianów]], was built in 1833 by around one hundred former [[November Uprising|Polish insurgents]].<ref name=MUZ/> In 1869, the Saint Joseph church was built by local [[Polish people|Poles]].

The town became part of the [[German Empire]] in 1871 during the [[unification of Germany]]. The railroad from Stettin through Cöslin and [[Słupsk|Stolp (Słupsk)]] to Danzig was constructed from 1858 to 1878. A military cadet school created by [[Frederick the Great]] in 1776 was moved from [[Chełmno|Kulm (Chełmno)]] to the city in 1890. The ''Kösliner Zeitung'' was as a local newspaper published in Köslin.

After the [[Nazi Party]] took power in Germany in 1933, a [[Gestapo]] station was established in the city and mass arrests of Nazi opponents were carried out.<ref name=MUZ/> After the [[Nazi]]s had closed down [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]]'s seminar in [[Zdroje, Szczecin|Finkenwalde (Zdroje)]] in 1937, Bonhoeffer chose the town as one of the sites where he illegally continued to educate [[vicar]]s of the [[Confessing Church]].<ref name=Zimmerling>Peter Zimmerling, ''Bonhoeffer als praktischer Theologe'', Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006, p.59, {{ISBN|3-525-55451-6}}</ref>

[[File:Koszalin, katedra Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny, tablica pamiątkowa - DSC08796.jpg|thumb|upright|Memorial to Polish women of the [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|resistance movement]] imprisoned in the city by the Germans during World War II]]
During the [[Second World War]] Köslin was the site of the first school for the "rocket troops" created on orders of [[Walter Dornberger]], the [[Wehrmacht]]'s head of the [[V-2 rocket|V-2]] design and development program.<ref>p.37, Dornberger</ref> The [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|Polish resistance]] conducted espionage of German activity and distributed [[Polish underground press]] in the city.<ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Encyklopedia konspiracji Wielkopolskiej 1939–1945|year=1998|location=Poznań|language=pl|publisher=Instytut Zachodni|page=625|isbn=83-85003-97-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Chrzanowski|first=Bogdan|year=2022|title=Polskie Państwo Podziemne na Pomorzu w latach 1939–1945|language=pl|location=Gdańsk|publisher=[[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]]|page=57|isbn=978-83-8229-411-8}}</ref> The Nazis brought many [[prisoners of war]] and [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced labourers]] to the city, mainly Poles, but also [[Italian military internees|Italians]] and [[French prisoners of war in World War II|French]].<ref name=MUZ/> The Germans operated several forced labour camps in the city,<ref name=gk>{{cite web|url=https://gk24.pl/czas-wojny-w-koszalinie-ilu-polakow-tu-wtedy-bylo/ar/4531125|title=Czas wojny w Koszalinie. Ilu Polaków tu wtedy było?|website=Głos Koszaliński|author=Piotr Polechoński|date=15 December 2012 |accessdate=26 June 2021|language=pl}}</ref> including a subcamp of the [[Stalag II-B]] [[German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II|POW camp]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stalag2b.free.fr/leskommandos.htm|title=Les Kommandos|website=Stalag IIB Hammerstein, Czarne en Pologne|access-date=20 March 2020|language=fr}}</ref> Polish forced labourers constituted up to 10% of the city's population during the war.<ref name=gk/> Germany also operated a prison in the city, with forced labour subcamps in the region.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bundesarchiv.de/zwangsarbeit/haftstaetten/index.php?action=2.2&tab=7&id=2310|title=Gefängnis Köslin|website=Bundesarchiv.de|accessdate=26 June 2021|language=de}}</ref> After crushing the [[Warsaw Uprising]], the Germans brought several transports of Poles from [[Warsaw]] to the city, mainly women and children.<ref>Leszek Laskowski, ''Pomniki Koszalina'', Koszalin 2009, p. 104 (in Polish)</ref>