Babimost [baˈbʲimɔst] (German: Bomst) is a town in Zielona Góra County, Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland.

[citation needed] The territory became a part of the emerging Polish state under its first historic ruler Mieszko I in the 10th century.

The estates were held by the Pomeranian Swienca family until 1307; together with nearby Sulechów, they were acquired by Margrave Waldemar of Brandenburg in 1319, who nevertheless died in the same year.

Finally incorporated into the Polish Poznań Voivodeship in 1332 (which was later also part of the larger Greater Poland Province), Babimost received town privileges according to Magdeburg Law by King Władysław II Jagiełło in 1397.

[citation needed] After the Protestant Reformation, the population increased due to the influx of German-speaking refugees from Silesia.

Oppressed by the Catholic Habsburg rule, they were granted religious freedom by Polish king John II Casimir Vasa.

[8] In the mid-17th century, the starost of Babimost was Krzysztof Żegocki, who during the Swedish invasion of Poland was the first to organize a guerrilla unit to fight the invading forces and became famous in the battles of Kościan and Jasna Góra, thus earning the title of the "First Partisan of the Commonwealth".

[10] After the Vistula–Oder Offensive of the Red Army in the late days of World War II, large parts of the town lay in ruins.