Szlichtyngowa [ʂlixtɨŋˈɡɔva] (German: Schlichtingsheim)[citation needed] is a town in western Poland, in the Wschowa County of the Lubuskie Voivodship, near the Oder river.

The town was founded in 1644 by a Polish Protestant activist and Sejm deputy Jan Jerzy Szlichtyng (German: Johann Georg von Schlichting) and was named after him Szlichtyngowa/Schlichtingsheim.

[2][3] It obtained town rights from the Polish King Władysław IV Vasa, by virtue of a privilege issued in Kraków in July 1644.

In spring 1945, the town was captured by the Red Army and after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, it was finally reunited with Poland.

The largely abandoned town was repopulated with Poles from the nearby Leszno and Rawicz counties, those returning from forced labour from Germany, as well as those expelled from eastern Polish territories, annexed by the Soviet Union.