Rybnica [rɨbˈnit͡sa] (German: Reibnitz) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stara Kamienica, within Karkonosze County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship,[1] in south-western Poland.

The name of the village is of Polish origin and comes from the word ryba, which means "fish".

[3] The oldest mention in documents comes from 1228, when part of fragmented Piast-ruled Poland.

Two trade routes of regional importance passed through the village in the late medieval and early modern periods, one connecting Wrocław, Bolków and Jelenia Góra with Gryfów, Lubań and Zgorzelec, and the other with Frýdlant and Zittau.

[5] In the 1940s, several members of the Home Army resistance organization, fled persecution in Niedrzwica Duża and settled in Rybnica, where they continued their activities, and maintained contact with the resistance in nearby Jelenia Góra.