Throughout centuries it was connected to Polish royalty and such families as Danaborski, Dahlke, Kościelecki, Grudziński, Działyński, Sułkowski, Komierowski.

[3] Despite the policy of Germanisation, local Poles in the early 20th century founded the People's Bank and a Polish Catholic Society.

On 21 June 1924, the town made history within German law as the Reichsgericht confirmed private ownership by Prinz Friedrich Leopold, including, where he died in 1931.

[2] Its teacher, Franciszek Gliszewski, was arrested and murdered by the Germans in the Flossenbürg concentration camp after the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

[4] On 30 January 1945 the Soviet Red Army occupied the abandoned and severely destroyed town during the final stages of World War II.