Dobre Miasto

Dobre Miasto
Collegiate church of the Holy Saviour and All Saints in Dobre Miasto
Car plates		NOL
Website	http://www.dobremiasto.com.pl

Dobre Miasto (Polish:

Dobre Miasto was founded on the place of a destroyed Old Prussian settlement. It received German town privileges on 26 December 1329. The name of the town was spelled in different ways: Guddestat, Godenstat, Gudinstat, Gutberg, Gutenstat, Guthenstadt, Guthinstadt. The

In 1538 Nicolaus Copernicus visited the town when he accompanied Bishop Johannes Dantiscus. The 16th century was a period of peace, which ended abruptly with Swedish invasion in 1626. The Swedes overran the town several times but the inhabitants suffered most severely during the Deluge in the years 1655-1660.

In 1772 the town was annexed by the

It was not until 1812 that three Jewish families were allowed to settle in Guttstadt. In 1814 they bought land for a Jewish cemetery.[4] In 1855, the town's synagogue was consecrated - serving the 240 community members.^[5]

During World War II, Guttstadt was 65% destroyed during its capture by the Soviet Red Army and the NKVD. After the Potsdam Conference the town was again handed over to Poland and renamed to its historic Polish name Dobre Miasto. The town's German population was expelled towards the remainder of Germany, and many Poles displaced from former eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union settled in the town. On 1 August 1945, a Soviet garrison handed over power to Jan Majdecki, the first post-war mayor of the town.

Main sights

• The
  minor basilica (1989). One of the tourist attractions besides the interior and the furnishings of the church is the organ
  with 49 tones and 3522 pipes. The former capitulary library houses a parish museum, which is open to visitors. It contains the remains of the old outfit of the collegiate. The collection of books and manuscripts largely scattered after World War II.
• The
  St Nicholas Church, in Baroque style, built from 1736-1741. At present it is a Greek Catholic
  parish temple.
• The
  Stork Tower (Baszta Bociania) with fragments of the medieval city walls
  . The tower owes its name to storks which have nested on its top. At present the tower is the residence of one of the sections of the Cultural Society. In the summer season tourists can visit a miniature museum created by the members of the society.

The local football team is DKS Dobre Miasto [pl]. It competes in the lower leagues.

Notable residents

• Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski (1650–1711), Polish preacher, translator, Chancellor of the Crown and Catholic bishop; died in Dobre Miasto
• Augustinus Bludau (1863–1930), Catholic bishop
• Curt Johannes Braun (1903-1961), German screenwriter
• Friedrich Ernst Dorn, (1848–1916), German physicist
• Waldemar Milewicz, (1956–2004), Polish journalist
• Łukasz Kadziewicz, (born 1980), Polish volleyball player
• Norbert Wojnarowski, (born 1976), Polish politician

International relations

Dobre Miasto is twinned with:^[6]

• Quakenbrück, Germany (2000)
• Montierchaume, France (2002)
• Kostopil, Ukraine (2007)

Gallery

• 
  Interior of the collegiate church
• 
  Saint George Chapel
• 
  Water tower
• 
  Historic architecture: a townhouse and a former granary

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dobre Miasto.

• Official site of Dobre Miasto
• News site of Dobre Miasto
• Jewish community of Dobre Miasto on Virtual Shtetl