This crossing was protected by a castle, which was probably destroyed in 1108, and populated by Poles,[2] who lived in a market named Lubies, which was documented in 1175.

The deed of foundation was ratified in 1175 by Bolesław I the Tall, who chose the abbey as the burial place for him and his dynasty.

The monastery was settled with Cistercian monks from Pforta in the Margraviate of Meissen,[6] Bolesław refuge during his stay in Germany.

[7] In the same document the duke allowed the monastery to settle their territory with Germans and to exclude them from Polish law, making it the first place of the Ostsiedlung in Silesia.

Following the extinction of the Piast dynasty and the dissolution of the Duchy of Legnica in 1675, the town was incorporated into the Bohemian Crown, then ruled by the House of Habsburg.

Soviet troops occupied parts of the village until 1948,[5] and the remaining German inhabitants who were not evacuated, were expelled in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement.

[5] In 1945–1947, the settlement was repopulated by Poles displaced from Żydaczów and Poznanka in former eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union and Polish repatriates from France.