| Obrzycko | |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Greater Poland |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Szamotuły |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Obrzycko (urban gmina) |
| Leader Title: | City mayor |
| Leader Name: | Igor Kołoszuk |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1238 |
| Established Title3: | Town rights |
| Established Date3: | 1458-1580, 1638-1934, 1990 |
| Area Total Km2: | 3.72 |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Total: | 2262 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Coordinates: | 52.7064°N 16.5292°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 64-520 |
| Area Code: | +48 61 |
| Registration Plate: | PSZ |
| Blank Name Sec2: | Voivodeship road |
| Website: | http://www.obrzycko.com/ |
Obrzycko is a town in Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 2,262 inhabitants (2010).
Nearby municipalities include Wronki, Ostroróg, and Szamotuły.
As part of the region of Greater Poland, i.e. the cradle of the Polish state, the area formed part of Poland since its establishment in the 10th century. It was mentioned as a seat of a castellany in 1238. Obrzycko was a private village of Polish nobility, and later a private town, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.[1]
In the course of the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, the town was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia. Following the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw. After the duchy's dissolution, it became part of Prussia again after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and from 1818 it belonged to the Samter district.
As part of the Prussian Province of Posen, the town became part of Germany in 1871 under the Germanized name Obersitzko. The local population was subjected to Germanisation policies. At the beginning of the 20th century the town had a Protestant and a Catholic church, a synagogue, a furniture factory and a sawmill. According to. the census of 1910, the town had a population of 1,746, of which 1,018 (58.3%) were Germans and 725 (41.5%) were Poles.[2] After World War I, it was involved in the Greater Poland uprising and soon became part of newly reborn Poland.
During the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by the German Wehrmacht. It became part of the Samter district in the newly formed province of Reichsgau Wartheland. In 1942, the occupiers established a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp in the town.[3] [4] Towards the end of the war, the Red Army captured the area and the town was restored to Poland.
The Jewish Cemetery in Obrzycko