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

Ciołkowo was a private village of Polish nobility, 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 1941, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, who were either deported to forced labour in Germany or enslaved as forced labour of 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.