[1] The settlement was first mentioned in 1124 by bishop Otto von Bamberg, who baptized the first Pomeranians here,[2] a task entrusted to him by Polish monarch Bolesław III Wrymouth.

In 1320 Dukes Otto I and Barnim III exempted the burghers from customs duties throughout their duchy, in 1322 they granted the town the village of Czarnowo, and in 1326 they confirmed the old right to mint coins.

[7] By the Contract of Pyritz of March 26, 1493 the Dukes of Pomerania recognized the right of succession of the House of Brandenburg.

At the end of World War II the Soviet Red Army conquered the town during the Pomeranian Offensive.

The power plant is generating clean geothermal energy thanks to use of Lower Jurassic reservoirs of thermal waters (61 degree Celsius) at approx.