__NOTOC__ Gmina Dobrzeń Wielki, German Gemeinde Groß Döbern is a rural

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...

(administrative district) in

Opole County __NOTOC__ Opole County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Opole Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. ...

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, in south-western

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. Its seat is the village of

Dobrzeń Wielki Dobrzeń Wielki (, ) is a village in Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the Gmina Dobrzeń Wielki (rural community) which has been officially bilingual in Polish and German since 2009. It is situated appro ...

, which lies approximately north-west of the regional capital

Opole Opole (; ; ; ) is a city located in southern Poland on the Oder River and the historical capital of Upper Silesia. With a population of approximately 127,387 as of the 2021 census, it is the capital of Opole Voivodeship (province) and the seat of ...

. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2019 its total population is 9,457. Since 2009 the commune, like much of the surrounding area, has been a bilingual commune in German and Polish. The gmina contains part of the

protected area Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood ...

called

Stobrawa Landscape Park Stobrawa Landscape Park (''Stobrawski Park Krajobrazowy''; ) is a protected area ( Landscape Park) in south-western Poland, established in 1999, covering an area of in the region of the Stobrawa river. About 250 protected animals live in the pa ...

Villages

Gmina Dobrzeń Wielki contains the villages and settlements of:

, Borki, Brzezie, Chróścice,

Czarnowąsy Czarnowąsy is a district in the northern part of Opole, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Geography It is situated on the Mała Panew river near its confluence with the Oder. The village lies approximately south-east of Dobrzeń Wi ...

, Dobrzeń Mały, Krzanowice, Kup, Świerkle.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Dobrzeń Wielki is bordered by the city of

and by the gminas of Dąbrowa,

Łubniany Łubniany (German ''Lugnian'', 1936-45: Lugendorf) is a village in Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Łubniany. It lies approximately north of the regional ...

Murów Murów is a village in Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Murów. It lies approximately north of the regional capital Opole Opole (; ; ; ) is a city loca ...

, Pokój and Popielów.

Twin towns – sister cities

Gmina Dobrzeń Wielki is twinned with two other towns, these being: *

Heuchelheim Heuchelheim (official name: ''Heuchelheim a. d. Lahn'') is a municipality in the district of Gießen, in Hesse, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and ...

, Germany * Wil, Switzerland

References

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