Dobre
Village
Mass grave of Polish insurgents from 1863
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Coordinates: 52°41′N 18°33′E / 52.683°N 18.550°E / 52.683; 18.550
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Kuyavian-Pomeranian
County	Radziejów
Gmina	Dobre
Population	1,700
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	CRA
Voivodeship roads

Dobre [ˈdɔbrɛ] is a village in Radziejów County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.^[1] It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Dobre. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of Radziejów and 40 km (25 mi) south of Toruń.

History

In the 10th century, the area became part of the emerging Polish state under the Piast dynasty. Dobre was initially a royal village of the Polish Crown, and later on, it passed into the possession of various noble families. In the late 18th century, it was annexed by Prussia during the Partitions of Poland. In 1807, it was regained by Poles and included in the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, and following its dissolution in 1815, it fell to the Russian Partition of Poland. During the January Uprising, on February 19, 1863, the Battle of Krzywosądz between Polish insurgents and Russian troops was fought nearby. Dobre is the location of one of the two mass graves of the insurgents killed in the battle with the other grave located in Krzywosądz. Following World War I, in 1918, Poland regained independence and control of the village.

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, whose houses and farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[2] Expelled Poles from Dobre and other nearby villages were briefly held in a temporary transit camp in Dobre, then moved to a transit camp in Łódź, and eventually deported to the area of Biała Podlaska in the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland.^[3]

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