The Ścinawa train station is a key gateway for travel throughout the region, connecting major destinations such as Wrocław and Głogów.

It is part of Lubin County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, and is the seat of the municipality called Gmina Ścinawa.

Ścinawa was first documented as a possession of the newly established Trzebnica Abbey in a deed issued by Pope Innocent III, which dates back to 1202, when it was part of fragmented Poland.

In 1358 Jan sold half of the Ścinawa to his cousin Duke Bolko II the Small of Świdnica, the only ruler of the Silesian Piasts who had refused to become a Bohemian vassal.

Under the rule of Duke Frederick II of Legnica, Ścinawa became part of the united duchies of Wołów and Brzeg in 1528.

It was heavily devastated during the Thirty Years' War, when in October 1633 Albrecht von Wallenstein's troops nearby routed a Swedish corps under Jindřich Matyáš Thurn.

[4] Upon the death of the last Piast duke George William in 1675, his lands fell to the House of Habsburg as reverted fiefs.

[6] In 1947, a soap and washing powder factory was established, as well as a branch of a dairy cooperative in Lubin, which produced butter for the Polish market and casein exported to Switzerland, the Netherlands and Japan.

[8] A fruit and vegetable processing plant was established in 1958, which produced pickles, kompot, salads and honey, over 30% of which were exported.