Jews 1861: 12,691, incl. 45 Catholics, 757 Jews, one Mennonite and 46 German Catholics. 1905: 31,154 (incl. the military), among these 951 Catholics and 548 Jews 1925: 41,605, incl. 1,200 Catholics and 469 Jews 1933: 45,307 1939: 48,060 In 1994 the number of inhabitants reached the highest level. Sports clubs The city's most notable sports club is basketball team Czarni Słupsk, which competes in the Polish Basketball League (top division), where they finished 3rd four times (as of 2022). They are based in Hala Gryfia. Other clubs include: Akademia Tenisa Oxford: tennis Gryf Słupsk: football Słupia Słupsk: handball Słupski Klub Sportowy Piast-B: badminton SKB Czarni Słupsk: boxing TPS Czarni Słupsk: women's volleyball Towarzystwo Pływackie Skalar Słupsk: swimming AML Słupsk: athletics LKS Fenix: athletics STS Gryf 3 Słupsk : judo US missile defense complex The European Interceptor Site (EIS) of the US was planned in nearby Redzikowo, forming a Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system in conjunction with a US narrow-beam midcourse tracking and discrimination radar system in the Czech Republic. It was supposed to consist of up to 10 silo-based interceptors, a two-stage version of the existing three-stage Ground Based Interceptor (GBI), with Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV). The missile shield has received much local opposition in the area, including several protests. This included a protest in March 2008, when an estimated 300 protesters marched on the proposed site of the missile base. The planned installation was later scrapped by President Obama on 17 September 2009. On February 12, 2016, the US Army has awarded AMEC Foster Wheeler a $182.7 million contract with an option to support the Aegis Ashore missile defense system in Poland. The contract comes as part of Phase III of the European Phased Adaptive Approach program, which aims to boost land-based missile defense systems for NATO allies against ballistic missile threats. Project is located in Redzikowo, the site that was formerly scrapped. Notable people Early times Erdmuthe of Brandenburg (1561–1623), Princess of Brandenburg, died in Stolp Michael Brüggemann (1583–1654), German Lutheran pastor, preacher and translator Matthias Palbitzki (1623–1677), Swedish diplomat and art-connoisseur Andrzej Stech (1635–1697), Polish Baroque painter Eduard von Bonin (1793–1865), Prussian General, minister of war 19th century Heinrich von Stephan (1831–1897), German official, founder of the Universal Postal Union Berthold Suhle (1837–1904), German chess master Wilhelm Dames (1843–1898), German paleontologist Otto Liman von Sanders (1855–1929), German general Georg von der Marwitz (1856–1929), German general Hedwig Lachmann (1865–1918),