It is the site of a border crossing with Hohenwutzen, on the road connecting the Polish town of Chojna with Bad Freienwalde in Germany.

In the final stages of World War II, in March 1945, it was the site of fights between joint Polish-Soviet forces and the German Wehrmacht.

Afterwards, the area became again part of Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which then stayed in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s.

[2] The village enjoys a great deal of business from Germans who cross the border to purchase products and services more cheaply than in Germany.

[3] When the border crossing was opened in 1993, thousands of Germans thronged the village in search of inexpensive goods and to fill up their automobile tanks, taking advantage of the cheaper fuel rates.