The area formed part of Poland since the establishment of the state in the 10th century.

Żychlewo was a private church village, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.

Following World War I, Poland regained independence and control of the village.

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in December 1939, the occupiers carried out first expulsions of Poles, who were then sent to a transit camp in nearby Gostyń, and eventually deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland.

[4] Houses and farms of expelled Poles were handed over to new German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.