The village was founded about 1300AD and based on Magdeburgian law. The first written referenceto the place comes from the year 1305 when a menial village Obora became obliged to pay tithes to the bishop of Wroclaw.The very name Obora is of cultural type and it used to denote a village whose people were engaged in cattle-breeding. At the beginning of the 14^th century the village underwent a change from the bishop’s demense into Conrad I, the Prince of Olesnica, ownership. Despite the changes of national status of the village in subsequent centuries, its name remained more or less the same: Obora, Obornik, Obiring, Obernigk, Oborniki.

A special significance in the history of Oborniki should be attributed to Schaubert family whose representatives were the owners of the place for about 200 years. After having discovered ferruginous oxalate resources in 1835, Charles Wolfgang Schaubert decided to found a modern therapeutic centre which, situated in the north-western part of the village in the area of Sittenwald forest, was to exploit local natu7ral conditions, such as mild climate, springwaters and beautiful landscape. This very fact determined the direction of Oborniki’s development in the late 19^th century, when a small , insignificant village was transformed into a popular and widely visited spa and holiday resort.

A person who rendered Oborniki Slaskie renowned was a romantic poet, writer and actor, Charles Edward Holtei, born in 1798. In his writings and poems wa can find sentimental descriptions of the land of his childhood- a small and quiet settlement situated among woods and mountains. Famous for his friendly attitude towards Poland and its people, he was a close friend of Adam Mickiewicz.

The foundation of further sanatoriums manifests the development of this health resort: in1880 a therapeutic centre for “the nervous and the melancholic” was erected. Between 1906 and 1913, in a picturesque park and nearby forest, Friedrichshohe sanatorium was built (today's sanatorium in Prusicka Street), followed by another for patients with lung disease (today's "Lesne" sanatorium in Dunikowskiego Street), as well as diabetics and circulation problems.

After Silesia had been incorporated in Poland, the official name Oborniki Slaskie was created in order to draw the distinction between the place and another Oborniki near Poznan.