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

Bukownica 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 1940 and 1942, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who then were either deported to forced labour in Germany or enslaved as forced labour of new German colonists in the county.

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