The village is the site of an International Youth Meeting Centre, which primarily brings Polish and German young people together for dialogue and educational programs.

[3] Like most of Silesia, the Krzyżowa area had been annexed by the Prussian king Frederick the Great after the First Silesian War in 1742.

The members of the anti-Nazi resistance group Kreisau Circle met on the property, hosted by Helmuth von Moltke's great-grandnephew Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, who was executed for treason against Germany in January 1945.

After World War II the property was used as a farm, and still today the single houses carry names like cowshed or stable.

The center is known as the Międzynarodowe Centrum Spotkań Młodzieży in Polish, and as the Internationale Jugendbegegnungsstätte Kreisau in German.