POLSKA	POLAND
województwo: Lubuskie	voivodship: Lebus
powiat: Międzyrzecz	county: Międzyrzecz

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Słubice is situated at an elevation of 41 m on the right bank of the river Odra (Oder), directly opposite the German town Frankfurt (Oder), of which it was as Dammvorstadt a part until 1945. Słubice is the capital of the district of the same name (powiat słubicki), the municipality has a populatition of about 16,700 (2019).

The name Słubice is a modern Polish restored version of Zliwitz, a West Slavic settlement east of the Brandendamm causeway across the Oder, mentioned in Frankfurt's city charter of 1253. Until 1249 it was part of the Polish Lubusz Land, which since 1138 in different periods formed part of the Greater Polish or Silesian provinces of then fragmented Poland. In 1225 Zliwitz was granted staple rights. The Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg had purchased the Lubusz Land from the Silesian Dukes in 1249. After a war broke out over control of the region in 1319, the area came under the control of the Duchy of Pomerania. In 1319 the Duke of Pomerania granted new privileges to the town of Frankfurt (Oder), which today's Słubice was already part of. The area fell again to Brandenburg in 1324. Between 1373 and 1415 it was part of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (or the Czech Lands), ruled by the Luxembourg dynasty. In 1945, Frankfurt (Oder) and its part Dammvorstadt on the right bank of the river were separated by the drawing of the Oder–Neisse line, which drew the Polish–German border through the city. The name Słubice was officially introduced in 1945.

Glasses no. 3936 [below left] and 3937 [below right] are souvenirs from Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. The bottom left picture on glass no. 3936 and the bottom right picture on glass no. 3937 show a view of the Kleist tower, a lookout tower constructed in 1891 in the eastern part of Frankfurt (Oder), today Słubice. The tower is named for poet and officer Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715–1759) who died in battle in nearby Kunersdorf (today Kunowice) in 1759 during the Seven Years' War, 1756–1763). The tower was blown up in 1945. As of 2020, there are, albeit controversial, plans to build a new lookout tower as a new attraction of Słubice.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82ubice, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82ubice; de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCdischer_Friedhof_S%C5%82ubice, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewald_Christian_von_Kleist; https://www.moz.de/lokales/frankfurt-oder/deutsch-polnisches-projekt-slubicer-gehen-gegen-kleistturm-vor-gericht-49378432.html]