[1] The settlement lies on the western rim of the Greater Poland historic region on the left bank of the Obra river, a tributary of the Warta, and is surrounded by numerous lakes and extended forests.

The settlement was established in the 1230s by the Piast duke Władysław Odonic, then ruling over the Polish duchy of Greater Poland.

In the early 14th century, the Ascanian margrave Waldemar of Brandenburg occupied the Bledzew area and granted it to the Cistercian monks at Zemsko; it nevertheless was reconquered by the Polish king Władysław I the Elbow-high in 1326 and incorporated into the Poznań Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland.

After the Cistercian monks moved their seat to Bledzew in 1407,[2] the citizens were vested with town privileges according to Magdeburg law by King Casimir IV Jagiellon in 1458, confirmed by his successor John I Albert in 1493.

After World War II with the implementation of the Oder-Neisse line it returned to the Republic of Poland and the remaining German population was expelled in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement.