Kopaniec, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
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Kopaniec k is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stara Kamienica
Gmina Stara Kamienica
Gmina Stara Kamienica is a rural gmina in Jelenia Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the village of Stara Kamienica, which lies approximately west of Jelenia Góra, and west of the regional capital Wrocław.The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its...

, within Jelenia Góra County
Jelenia Góra County
Jelenia Góra County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998....

, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, or Lower Silesia Province , is one of the 16 voivodeships into which Poland is currently divided. It lies in southwestern Poland...

, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, known as Seifershau.

It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south of Stara Kamienica
Stara Kamienica
Stara Kamienica is a village in Jelenia Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district called Gmina Stara Kamienica. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany....

, 14 kilometres (9 mi) west of Jelenia Góra
Jelenia Góra
----Jelenia Góra is a city in Lower Silesia, south-western Poland. The name of the city means "deer mountain" in Polish, Czech and German. It is close to the Krkonoše mountain range running along the Polish-Czech border – ski resorts such as Karpacz and Szklarska Poręba can be found...

, and 108 kilometres (67 mi) west of the regional capital Wrocław.

Kopaniec is situated in the foothills of the Jizera Mountains
Jizera Mountains
Jizera Mountains , or Izera Mountains, are part of the Western Sudetes on the border between the Czech Republic and Poland. The major part is formed from granite, with some areas formed from basalt. The mountains got their name from the Jizera River, which rises at the southern base of Smrk...

 (Góry Izerskie) near the Karkonosze
Karkonosze
Krkonoše is a mountain range located in the north of the Czech Republic and the south-west of Poland, part of the Sudetes mountain system . The Czech-Polish border, which divides the historic regions of Bohemia and Silesia, runs along the main ridge...

. The village is well known because the artist colony (see www.kopaniec.pl). There are many agro-tourist facilities.
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