[2] The settlement prospered due to its location at the intersection of trade routes from Kuyavia and Greater Poland to Gdańsk, and from the Chełmno Land to Western Pomerania.

Administratively it was located within the Inowrocław Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.

King Casimir IV of Poland by virtue of privileges of 1476 and 1484, established two annual fairs and a weekly market.

[3] In the 17th and early 18th century Koronowo suffered due to Swedish invasions, the Great Northern War and epidemics.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty, the town along with the entire Bromberg district had to be ceded by Germany to the Second Polish Republic in 1919.

13 Polish soldiers were killed on September 2, 1939, during the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II.

[5] During the German occupation, the Polish population was subject to mass arrests, expulsions and massacres.