 The village lies in the historical region of Těšín Silesia.The settlement could have been first mentioned in 1580 as "Dobratice", and later it was recorded as Dobratitz (1666), Dobrachtice (1724, 1750), Dobratitz (1729), Dobratice (1736), and so on.It belonged then to the Duchy of Teschen, a fee of Kingdom of Bohemia and a part of the Habsburg Monarchy.