Oborniki

Oborniki stands at the meeting of the Wełna and Warta rivers in Greater Poland, north of Poznań. It received town rights before 1292, and Duke Bolesław the Pious founded a Franciscan monastery here in the thirteenth century. As a royal town of the Polish Crown, it belonged to Poznań County and Voivodeship; King Władysław Jagiełło visited it frequently. Prussia annexed Oborniki in the Second Partition of Poland in 1793. It became part of the Duchy of Warsaw after the Greater Poland uprising of 1806, before passing again to Prussia in 1815. The town's river position linked it to surrounding Greater Poland throughout these changes.