Since 2006 it has been officially bilingual in German and Polish The town of Dombrowitz was first mentioned in 1297.

After the unification of Germany, the village was located in the Upper Silesia Province.

In the Upper Silesia plebiscite on March 20, 1921, 134 people voted to remain in Germany and 45 to join Poland.

From 1935 the Nazi government made a large-scale effort to rename places with Slavic-origin names.

After 1945 the town was annexed to Poland and much of German population was expelled; it was renamed Dąbrowie to de-Germanize it, and later this name was changed to Dąbrowice.