As part of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland it was a private church village of the Cistercian Monastery in Oliwa, administratively located in the Gdańsk County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
[1] During World War II, on October 5, 1939, the Germans carried out an execution of 39 Poles, defenders of the Polish Post Office in Gdansk, in the district.
[3] The defenders were then officially buried at the cemetery of victims of Nazi Germany in Zaspa in 1992.
The pope John Paul II visited the district on 12 June 1987 during his third pilgrimage to Poland.
Catholic churches of Saint Casimir and of Divine Providence are located in Zaspa.