Chobienia | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lower Silesian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Lubin |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Rudna |
Coordinates: | 51.55°N 43°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Population Total: | 650 |
Chobienia is a village (former town) in the administrative district of Gmina Rudna, within Lubin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
It lies approximately 25km (16miles) north-east of Lubin, and 63km (39miles) north-west of the regional capital Wrocław.
Chobienia is the site of a Renaissance castle, where Frederick II of Prussia stayed after the Battle of Kunersdorf in 1759.
Johann Heermann (1585–1647), hymn composer, worked as a pastor in Köben from 1611.