Klępsk

Klępsk
Village
The formerly Old Lutheran church of Klępsk, since 1947 in use by the Catholic Church in Poland
Klępsk
Coordinates: 52°6′N 15°43′E / 52.100°N 15.717°E / 52.100; 15.717Coordinates: 52°6′N 15°43′E / 52.100°N 15.717°E / 52.100; 15.717
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lubusz
County	Zielona Góra County
Gmina	Sulechów
Population
• Total	600 (approx.)
Website	http://www.klepsk.prv.pl

Klępsk [klɛmpsk] (German: Klemzig) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sulechów, within Zielona Góra County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) east of Sulechów and 23 km (14 mi) north-east of Zielona Góra.

The village has an approximate population of 560. Until 1945, the village Klemzig was part of the New March within the Brandenburg, Germany.

In the 19th century the village was a center of the Old Lutheran movement, whose members refused to join the state-sponsored Prussian Union (Evangelical Christian Church) and suffered persecution. Some of the Klemzig Old Lutherans immigrated to Australia where they founded the village of Klemzig, South Australia.

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