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Koperniki is a village located in the Nysa district, in the Nysa municipality. It is inhabited by slightly over 700 people. The first mention of the village comes from the second half of the 13th century. The ancestors of Nicolaus Copernicus originate from this town, who migrated through Kraków to Toruń. In 1973, during the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the scientist's birth, the local school was named after him, and a monument was erected in the center of the village. The village is located on the pedestrian Copernicus Trail. After 1945, residents of the village of Wiktorówka from the Brzeżany district in the Tarnopol Voivodeship and residents from the village of Jeleśnia from the Żywiec district were resettled here to the village. The monuments of Koperniki include the Neo-Gothic Church of St. Nicholas, dating from the end of the 19th century, the former cemetery by the church, whose origins date back to the 13th century, as well as a tomb monument with a Russian and German inscription – of Alexander Kolzakov, a Russian lieutenant who died of a wound after the Battle of Bautzen in 1813.
