[1] The oldest known mention Wysoka comes from 1260, when it was granted by Duke Bolesław the Pious from the Piast dynasty to Mikołaj Łodzia.

[5] She later renewed Wysoka's town rights after a big fire in 1722, while in 1727-29 the Augustinians built a Baroque Church of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Poles established the Polish People's Council (Polska Rada Ludowa) and the Civic Guard (Straż Obywatelska).

[6] In January 1920 Wysoka was finally transferred from Weimar Germany to Poland following the Treaty of Versailles, and it was attached to the Wyrzysk Powiat (county).

[6] The town was annexed into the "Regierungsbezirk Bromberg" of the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia and governed by the Nazi Gauleiter Albert Forster.

There was much economic development during the 19th century when the Prussian province of Posen was fully integrated into the wider Imperial German economy.