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Kopice is a village in the Brzeg district, in the Grodków municipality. Its town name comes from the word "kopiec", which means a mound of earth. From 1360, Kopice was the seat of the von Borsnitz family, and for the next century – the von Beess family. In the mid-18th century, the village came under the rule of the Silesian noble family von Sierstorpff, which rebuilt the knightly seat located in the village into a Classicist-style residence. In 1859, the facility was purchased by Hans Ulrich Schaffgotsch and Johanna Gryczik von Schomberg-Godulla (known as the "Silesian Cinderella"). The neoclassical parish church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross from the early 19th century also has a historical character. In February 1945, the village was the site of numerous murders committed against forced laborers and prisoners of war, carried out, among others, by Wehrmacht soldiers. Crimes against the residents were also committed by Red Army soldiers, who captured the village also in 1945.