Dąbrowice, Kutno County

Dąbrowice is a town in Kutno County, in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland, and the seat of the administrative district called Gmina Dąbrowice. It lies about 22 km north-west of Kutno and 65 km north-west of the regional capital Łódź, within the historic Łęczyca Land. In the old Kingdom of Poland it was a royal town, administratively part of Łęczyca County in the Łęczyca Voivodeship of the Greater Poland Province. In the interwar period it belonged to Kutno County in the Warsaw Voivodeship, and the 1921 census recorded 2,349 inhabitants, of whom 92.6 percent were Polish and 6.9 percent Jewish. The gazetteer GeoNames lists the present town with about 1,300 inhabitants at an elevation of about 127 m. Wojciech Nierychlewski, a priest murdered at Auschwitz in 1942 and honoured as a Blessed of the Catholic Church, is named among its notable people.