[2] The name of the village comes from the Polish word gród, which means "stronghold".

[2] In 1290, Duke Mestwin II sold the village to the Archbishop of Gniezno.

[2] Gruczno was visited by several Archbishops of Gniezno, and it was administered by the Archdiocese until the late-18th-century Partitions of Poland,[2] when it was annexed by Prussia.

Following World War I, Poland regained independence and control of the village.

[3] In 1940–1941, the occupiers also carried out expulsions of Poles, whose houses and farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.