After the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the Duchy of Warsaw, and after its dissolution, it was re-annexed by Prussia in 1815.

During the German invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, it was the site of fierce Polish defense.

[6][7][8] The first expulsions of Poles, mainly families of massacred Polish defenders and families of Poles who were murdered or deported to concentration camps during the Intelligenzaktion, as well as owners of larger houses, shops, workshops and barbershops, were carried out in November and December 1939.

[15] In 1940, the Germans arrested the leaders of the local unit of Wojskowa Organizacja Ziem Zachodnich, who were then imprisoned in various Nazi prisons and eventually sentenced to death and beheaded in Poznań in 1942.

[16] Bogdan Friedrich, commander of the local unit of the Union of Armed Struggle was arrested by the Gestapo in mid-1942 and died in the Rawicz prison after a brutal interrogation, whereas Stanisław Szperka, commander of the local Home Army unit, was arrested by the Gestapo in August 1944; he died during his deportation from a prison in Żabikowo to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

[17] Several organizers of the local resistance units were also arrested in 1942–1944 and either murdered during Gestapo interrogations or sentenced to death and executed.