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{{One source|date=January 2025}}{{Infobox settlement
| name = Dobczyce
| image_skyline = Widok na Dobczyce z baszty murów obronnych.jpg
| image_caption = Town view
| image_flag = POL Dobczyce flag.svg
| image_shield = POL Dobczyce COA.svg
| pushpin_map = Poland
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Lesser Poland Voivodeship|Lesser Poland]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Myślenice County|Myślenice]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Dobczyce|Dobczyce]]
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Tomasz Suś
| area_total_km2 = 12.97
| population_as_of = 31 December 2021<ref name="population">{{cite web|url=https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/BDL/dane/teryt/jednostka|title=Local Data Bank|access-date=2022-07-30|publisher=Statistics Poland}} Data for territorial unit 1209014.</ref>
| population_total = 6388
| population_density_km2 = auto
| coordinates = {{coord|49|52|51|N|20|05|25|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 32-410
| area_code = +48 12
| blank_name = [[Vehicle registration plates of Poland|Car plates]]
| blank_info = KMY
| website = http://www.dobczyce.pl
}}
'''Dobczyce''' {{IPAc-pl|d|o|p|'|cz|y|c|e}} is a town in southern [[Poland]], situated since 1999 in the [[Lesser Poland Voivodeship]] (previously in [[Kraków Voivodeship (1975–1998)|Kraków Voivodeship]] from 1975 to 1998).{{TERYT}} As of December 2021, the town has a population of 6,388.<ref name = population />

There is a large dam with [[Lake Dobczyce]] on the [[Raba (Vistula)|Raba river]], and a partially rebuilt 14th-century [[Dobczyce Castle]], with ruins of a 14th-century [[defensive wall]] -  which is open for tourists. Dobczyce is also the name of a small part of Bobrowniki Małe, a village in Lesser Poland.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}

Dobczyce received its [[Magdeburg rights]] town charter probably in 1310, during the reign of [[Władysław Łokietek]]. The town was famous for its castle, where [[Jan Długosz]] liked to stay and work on his chronicles. Here, in 1450, Polish astronomer and dean of [[Jagiellonian University|Kraków Academy]] Leonard Vitreatoris (Leonhard von Dobschütz) was born. Dobczyce enjoyed several royal privileges, allowing its residents to buy salt from nearby [[Wieliczka]]. The town was a local center of cloth and wool making, but the period of prosperity ended during the [[Deluge (history)|Swedish invasion of Poland]] (1655–1660). After the [[Partitions of Poland]], Dobczyce was annexed by the [[Habsburg monarchy|Habsburg Empire]], and from 1772 to 1918 belonged to [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]]. On the main square there is a 19th-century parish church.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}

==Gallery==
<gallery perrow="4">
File:Skansen Dobczyce.JPG|Open-air museum
File:Kosciol dobczyce.jpg|St. Mary's Church
File:Dobczyce, Rynek.jpg|Market Square
File:Dobczyce, brama miejska.jpg|City gate
File:Darłowo, magazyn zbożowy (elewator), ul. Portowa 3.jpg|Grain warehouse
File:Dobczyce gm. Dobczyce. Cmentarz A-435 (A-646M) (2).jpg|Cemetery
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/city/dobczyce/ Jewish Community in Dobczyce] on Virtual Shtetl

{{Gmina Dobczyce}}

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[[Category:Cities and towns in Lesser Poland Voivodeship]]
[[Category:Myślenice County]]


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