Wschowa (pronounced Fs-hova [ˈfsxɔva], German: Fraustadt)[citation needed] is a town in the Lubusz Voivodeship in western Poland with 13,875 inhabitants (2019).

Later on, Wschowa was a border fortress in a region disputed by the Polish dukes of Silesia and Greater Poland.

From the 1290s, Wschowa was part of the Duchy of Głogów, and in 1343 it was captured by King Casimir III the Great and reunited with Greater Poland.

Wschowa was a retreat for religious refugees from adjacent Lower Silesia during the Thirty Years' War.

[3] The Royal Castle hosted meetings of Polish kings with foreign delegations and even sessions of the Senate of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth were held in Wschowa.

The Battle of Fraustadt occurred on February 3, 1706, during the Great Northern War, when Swedish forces defeated a joint army of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Saxony and Russia.

After the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the Duchy of Warsaw, according to the Treaty of Tilsit.

Fraustadt was one of the few areas within pre-war Germany attacked by the Polish military during the German invasion of Poland at the start of World War II in 1939.

Initially the town was part of Okręg III (comprising present West Pomeranian and Lubusz provinces) between 1945 and 1946.