It is the urban part of the larger Stawiszyn Commune, a mixed urban-rural municipality (gmina miejsko-wiejska).

Stawiszyn was a royal town of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Kalisz County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.

[2] The 1st Polish National Cavalry Brigade was stationed in the town.

[3] During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), two local Polish teachers were sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp and murdered there.

[4] In 1943, the occupiers renamed the town to Stavensheim in attempt to erase traces of Polish origin.