Upon the First Partition of Poland in 1772 it was annexed by Austria, and made part of its newly formed Kingdom of Galicia.

After World War I and the fall of Austria-Hungary it became again part of Poland, as the nation regained independence.

Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the village was occupied and annexed by Nazi Germany.

In connection with the construction of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp in nearby Brzezinka, in 1941, the occupiers expelled the entire Polish population of the village, which was initially deported to the nearby Pszczyna County, and afterwards either enslaved as forced labour or deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland.

[3] A small subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp was located in the depopulated village from May 1943 to January 1945.