First recorded mention of it comes from 1344's Peter's Pence, and it was called Henrychów (ecclesia de Henrichov).

Jan Długosz in his Liber beneficiorum calls it Gendrychów, writing that it was a small village in the Silesian Duchy of Zator.

New authorities changed its name into Andrichau, and until November 1918, it remained in Austrian province of Galicia.

In the mid-1800s, the Industrial Revolution reached Andrychów, together with an influx of Jewish settlers, for whom a synagogue was built in 1884.

First gas station was opened in 1929, and since 1926, the town had regular bus connections with Kraków and Bielsko-Biała.

They conscripted Jews for forced labor and beat and tortured members of the Jewish community.

The Jewish community continued to worship, organized clandestine schools for their children, and established a day care and public kitchens to feed the hungry.

Germans retreated westwards on January 26, 1945, and next day Andrychów was captured by the Red Army.

In the Polish People's Republic, Andrychów was an important center of textile industry, with a large cotton plant (Zakłady Przemysłu Bawełnianego).

Public transport is provided by buses of the Intercommune Transit Authority (Międzygminny Zakład Komunikacyjny) Andrychów–Kęty–Porąbka, which has 18 lines, including 6 in Andrychów itself.

Tourist attractions include the old town with historic park, baroque church, an 18th-century manor and a Jewish cemetery.