It also serves as an important depot of a narrow gauge railway line operating in the area.

[2] The town was first mentioned in historical documents from 1387 or 1388,[3] and was apparently owned by a particular knight at the time, from the clan Awdaniec (or Abdank).

[3] As punishment for the uprising, the tsarist administration deprived Krośniewice of its town rights, however, the settlement still developed.

During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, Krośniewice was occupied by the German Army on 16 September 1939, and then the SS-Totenkopf-Standarte Brandenburg entered the town to commit various atrocities against the Polish population.

[6] Homes of the expelled Poles were handed over to German colonists in accordance with the Lebensraum policy.