Dobrzyn Land

{{unreferenced|date=October 2009}} [[File:Polska-hydr-z.dobrzynska.png|thumb|Dobrzyń Land in present-day Poland]] '''Dobrzyń Land''' ({{lang-de|Dobriner Land}}; {{lang-pl|ziemia dobrzyńska}}) is a historic region around the town of [[Dobrzyń nad Wisłą]] in [[Poland]], east of the [[Vistula]] River and south of the [[Drwęca]], where it borders on the [[Kulmerland]]. The territory approximately corresponds with the present-day [[powiat]]s of [[Lipno County|Lipno]] and [[Rypin County|Rypin]] within the [[Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship]]. The lands of Dobrzyń had been part of the ''[[Civitas Schinesghe]]'' under the [[Piast dynasty|Piast]] duke [[Mieszko I of Poland]] (960-992). Upon the death of his descendant Duke [[Bolesław III Wrymouth]] in 1138, they were allocated to the newly established [[Duchy of Masovia]]. In his [[Prussian Crusade]], Duke [[Konrad I of Masovia]] in 1228 established the [[Order of Dobrzyń]] of [[Germans|German]] knights (''fratribus militiae Christi in Prussia''), whom he vested with the Dobrzyń estates. Soonafter however, this order was absorbed by the [[Teutonic Knights]], who had established the [[State of the Teutonic Order|Order's State]] in the adjacent Kulmerland, resulting in an ongoing territorial conflict about the area with the Masovian dukes. During the [[Polish–Teutonic War (1326–1332)|Polish–Teutonic War]] of 1326-1332, the forces of the Order's State occupied Dobrzyń Land, which however was relinquished to the [[Kingdom of Poland (1320–1385)|Kingdom of Poland]] in the 1343 [[Treaty of Kalisz (1343)|Treaty of Kalisz]]. The Knights regained control in the [[Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War]] of 1409-1411, but after their defeat at the [[Battle of Grunwald]] had to return it again according to the [[Peace of Thorn (1411)|Peace of Thorn]]. The lands of Dobrzyń were incorporated into the [[Inowrocław Voivodeship]] of the [[Crown of the Kingdom of Poland|Polish Crown]] and the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]]. While the western part of the voivodeship had already been annexed by [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] in the course of the [[First Partition of Poland]] in 1772, Dobrzyń Land on the eastern banks of the Vistula was incorporated into [[South Prussia]] during the [[Second Partition of Poland|Second Partition]] in 1793. It was administered with [[New East Prussia]] from 1795 onwards, until in 1807 it became part of the Napoleonic [[Duchy of Warsaw]] according to the [[Treaties of Tilsit]]. In 1815 however, it was attached to [[Congress Poland]] under the [[Russian Empire]]. Dobrzyń Land after [[World War I]] fell from Russia to the re-established independent [[Second Polish Republic]], it was occupied by [[Nazi Germany]] in [[World War II]], whereafter it was finally restored to Poland. ==External links== * [http://ziemia-dobrzynska.w.interia.pl/ Ziemia Dobrzyńska On-line] {{pl icon}} {{coord missing|Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship}} {{Crusader States}}