Zdziechowa was a private church village of the monastery in Gniezno, administratively located in the Gniezno County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.

On 30–31 December 1918 the village was the site of the Battle of Zdziechowa [pl], in which Polish insurgents defeated German troops.

On 10 September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland which started World War II, German troops carried out a massacre of 24 Poles from the region, incl.

[3] During the subsequent German occupation, in 1939 and 1942, the occupiers also carried out expulsions of Poles, who were then placed in a transit camp in nearby Gniezno, while their houses and farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.

[4] Poles expelled in 1939 were eventually deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland, whereas Poles expelled in 1942 were deported to forced labour in Germany.