 The area was part of the Bohemian crown lands before it passed to the Electorate of Saxony according to the 1635 Peace of Prague.Ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia, it was incorporated into the Province of Brandenburg in 1815.Under Nazi German rule, the village's name was Germanised to "Lindenhain" in 1937; after it fell to the Republic of Poland according to the 1945 Potsdam Agreement (see "Territorial changes of Poland after World War II"), it was renamed "Niemaszchleba" and again in 1953 Chlebowo.