The village is located in the historic Lubusz Land, which formed part of Poland since the establishment of the state by the Piast dynasty in the 10th century.

It was devastated by the troops of Duke Jan II the Mad of Żagań on his 1477 expedition against the Brandenburg elector Albert Achilles of Hohenzollern and again by Imperial as well as Swedish forces during the Thirty Years' War.

On 12 August 1759 at the Battle of Kunersdorf, the Prussian Army of King Frederick II was destroyed by the united Russian and Austrian forces under Count Pyotr Saltykov.

With Prussia it became part of the German Empire in 1871 during the unification of Germany, and from 1873 on was administered within the Weststernberg district with its capital at Drossen (Ośno Lubuskie).

Since the implementation of the Oder-Neisse line by the 1945 Potsdam Agreement, the eastern portion of the Lubusz Land with Kunowice has been again of Poland.