The town was created in 1954 by the merger of 3 long established villages; (Old) Luboń, Żabikowo and Lasek.

Regained by the Poles in 1807, Luboń was included in the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, and in 1815 it was re-annexed by Prussia.

The Germans established a forced labour camp for Jews in Żabikowo (called Poggenburg by the Nazis) in the north-west of Luboń.

After the end of German occupation, the area was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which stayed in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s.

In August 1980, employees of local factories joined the nationwide anti-communist strikes,[4] which led to the foundation of the Solidarity organization, which played a central role in the end of communist rule in Poland.