Dolsk

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title: "Dolsk" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cities-and-towns-in-greater-poland-voivodeship", "populated-lakeshore-places-in-poland", "śrem-county"] topic_path: "geography" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolsk" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Dolsk
image_skyline	DOLSK, założenie urbanistyczne (1396), Rynek.JPG
imagesize	260px
image_caption	Market Square
image_shield	POL Dolsk COA.svg
pushpin_map	Poland
pushpin_label_position	bottom
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Voivodeship
subdivision_name1	Greater Poland
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Śrem
subdivision_type3	Gmina
subdivision_name3	Dolsk
established_title	First mentioned
established_date	1136
established_title2	Town rights
established_date2	1359
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Tomasz Frąckowiak
area_total_km2	6.02
population_as_of	31 December 2021
population_total	1550
population_density_km2	auto
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
coordinates
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	63-140
area_code	+48 61
blank_name	Car plates
blank_info	PSE
blank1_name	Climate
blank1_info	Cfb
website	http://dolsk.pl/
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History

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The town was first mentioned in one of the first documents written partially in the Polish language, that is the Bull of Gniezno of 1136. Back then it was a private property of the Bishops of Gniezno. In the mid-13th century the town was transferred to the Bishops of Poznań, who remained the sole owners of the area until after the Partitions of Poland. Located at the trade route linking Poznań with Wrocław, the town drew significant income from the traders and merchants, who were obliged to sell their merchandise at the local market before proceeding down the trade route. In 1359 king Casimir III granted the town with Środa law, a local variant of the Magdeburg law.

In 1793 Dolsk was annexed by Prussia in the Second Partition of Poland, and in 1797 it was confiscated by the Prussian authorities and gradually fell into dismay. Following the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, and in 1815 it was reannexed by Prussia. In the mid-19th century, four annual fairs were held in the town and the local populace was mainly employed in cloth making, leather making and pottery. The town was restored to Poland, after the country regained independence in 1918 following World War I.

During World War II the town was under German occupation and in the mass executions carried out by the occupiers, 10 people from Dolsk and the surrounding areas were shot. The mayor of Dolsk, Józef Burdajewicz, was murdered in a public execution of 17 Poles, carried out by the German Einsatzgruppe VI on October 20, 1939, in the nearby town of Książ Wielkopolski. The Germans also expelled hundreds of Poles in 1939–1941, and handed over their houses to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy. The Polish resistance movement was present in Dolsk. Polish underground press was distributed in the town. Antoni Kaźmierski, founder of the local unit of the Union of Armed Struggle, was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941, and eventually sentenced to death and executed the following year. Liberation from Nazi Germany's occupation took place on January 21, 1945.

Sights

The town is experiencing a period of growth due to increase in tourist traffic. Among the most notable tourist attractions are three local churches: St. Michael's church (circa 1460, burnt and rebuilt in 1790, one of the most notable pieces of late Gothic architecture in the area), Baroque St. Laurentius' church (17th century) and Holy Spirit's church (17th century wooden church, formerly a chapel for the local hospital). The area around the town is a mosaic of various types of landscape, mostly formed during the glacial age. Among the most notable features are dense forests, several lakes and healthy turf deposits.

Demographics

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Gallery

File:Dolsk kosciol 2 1.JPG|St. Michael's Church File:Kozi Rynek.jpg|Dolsk Town Hall File:159A.jpg|Wooden church of the Holy Spirit File:Bohaterom Ziemi Dolskiej.jpg|Memorial to the Heroes of Dolsk land, who died for their fatherland in 1918–1919 and 1939–1945

References

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