Historically considered a part of Upper Lusatia, although more closely associated with Lower Silesia in the early 14th century and from 1815.

The village remained Catholic, when the region turned Protestant in the early 16th century and even after Lusatia passed to Saxony by the 1635 Peace of Prague.

In 1745, the village was the site of the Battle of Hennersdorf between the Prussian Army under General Hans Joachim von Zieten and a Saxon contingent in the War of the Austrian Succession.

In the final stages of World War II, on February 13, 1945, the Germans ordered a total evacuation of the local population.

[3] Following Germany's defeat, it became again part of Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which stayed in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s.