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Baborów is a town in the Głubczyce district and the seat of the Baborów urban-rural municipality. The town lies in the Sudeten Foothills, and the Psina river flows through it. The small town is inhabited by 3.1 thousand people. The name Baborów appears for the first time in sources from 1296, as a town located under German law. At that time, the inhabitants of the town were mainly engaged in agriculture. In the 15th century, it was plundered by the Hussites. In the 14th century, Baborów was purchased by the Dominican Convent of the Holy Spirit in Racibórz, and after the Silesian Wars, it found itself within the borders of Prussia. The 18th and 19th centuries marked a significant development of the town – during this period, guilds of shoemakers, furriers, weavers, and blacksmiths were established. The peak of development fell on the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, when the town became a stop on the route of the Głubczyce – Racibórz railway line. At the same time, a sugar factory, a cement plant, three brickyards, two mills, a malthouse, a dairy, and a tile factory were opened in the town. In 1945, Baborów was captured by Red Army troops. It found itself within the borders of the Polish state after 1945. The town's monuments include the historic old town with the town hall building, the 19th-century Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Baroque wooden cemetery church of St. Joseph.