The village forms a northwestern outpost of the historic Greater Poland region, where it borders with Pomerania.

The 14th century Drahim Castle was a stronghold of the Knights Hospitaller, who controlled the Polish-Pomeranian border region.

The robber barons made the castle the starting point of their brigandage, until the burghers of Drawsko defeated them in 1422.

In 1438 the Teutonic Knights arranged it so that Poland could take control of the region, which it reorganised as the Starostwo Drahimskie, with Drahim as its capital, within Greater Polish Poznań Voivodeship.

In 1657 King John II Casimir of Poland pawned this Poznanian starostwo, including Drahim, to the "Great Elector" Frederick William of Brandenburg in return for a credit by the Treaty of Bromberg.