Schaffgotsch family
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The Schaffgotsch family is an old and influential Silesian nobility which dates back to the thirteenth century. Some of its members played important roles in the public life of Bohemia, then Habsburg
Coat of arms of Counts von Schaffgotsch
Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch (1595–1635)
Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch (1715–1795), Bishop of Breslau
View of the Giant Mountains (from the north side) and the Schaffgotsch-owned comital estates in the eighteenth century
Kopice, Opole Voivodeship
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Kopice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grodków, within Brzeg County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
Schaffgotsch family
…mine industrialist Karl Godulla and thus became one of the most important industrialists in Prussia. Their descendants, the Upper Silesian line, or Koppitz branch of the family, owned this huge business empire until 1945. The Lower Silesian line, with its large possessions in and around the Giant and Jizera…
Holy Cross Church in Kopice
The ruined Kopice Palace and pond, 2013