The town was mentioned in the Gesta principum Polonorum, the oldest Polish chronicle from the early 12th century.

[5] After the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw, and after its dissolution in 1815 it became part of Congress Poland, later forcibly integrated with Imperial Russia.

During the January Uprising, on March 16, 1863, a skirmish between Polish insurgents and Russian soldiers took place there.

The Polish insurgent unit was attacked by Russian troops and forced to escape towards Lądek.

[7] Walenty Orchowski, commander of the local unit of the Komenda Obrońców Polski organization, was arrested in 1941 and then tortured and murdered by the Gestapo in Inowrocław.