[2] Both its German and Polish names derive from the medieval Slavic word lhóta, which referred to the 5-8 year grace period after a village was founded when it did not have to pay taxes.

Though Ellguth Turawa became an independent entity in 1813, it remained part of the parish of Groß Kottorz until 1891.

The most famous was the old Schrotholzkirche (wooden church) of St. Catherine that had been consecrated on November 21, 1629, by Johannes Balthasar, the Suffragan of Breslau.

After 1945, the village was renamed Ligota Turawska after the Potsdam Conference put it inside Poland's new borders.

The village hosts a branch of the SKGD (Sozial-Kulturelle Gesellschaft der Deutschen im Oppelner Schlesien, Social-Cultural Association of Germans in Opole Silesia).