Frysztak was mentioned in a 1259 AD document as a town with Magdeburg Rights given by King Bolesław V the Chaste and named Freistadt, literally "Freestead," by the invited German immigrants, though the Polish Internetowa encyklopedia PWN says that Frysztak received city rights (act of city location) in 1366.

[1] For centuries, it was a private town, administratively located in the Sandomierz Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province.

[2] In 1474, the town was completely destroyed by Hungarian army of King Matthias Corvinus, after which Frysztak declined.

The Hasidic leader Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Rimanov (1745–1815) lived and worked there for many years.

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, it was occupied by Germany.