KOSLIN, or COSLIN  , a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Pomerania, at the foot of the Gollenberg (45o ft.), 5 M. from the Baltic, and 105 M . N.E. of Stettin by rail . Pop . (1905), 21,474 . The town has two Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, a gymnasium, a cadet academy and a deaf and dumb asylum . In the large market place is the statue of the Prussian king Frederick William I., erected in 1824, and there is a war memorial on the Friedrich Wilhelm Platz . The industries include the manufacture of soap, tobacco, machinery, paper, bricks and tiles, beer and other goods . Koslin was built about 1188 by the Saxons, and raised to the rank of a town in 1266 . In 1532 it accepted the doctrines of the Reformation . It was severely tried in the Thirty Years' War and in the Seven Years' War, and in 1720 it was burned down . On the Gollenberg stands a monument to the memory of the Pomeranians who fell in the war of 1813-15 .