 Plans to connect the village to the Lower Lusatian town of Fürstenberg west of the Oder (today part of Eisenhüttenstadt), similar to the bridge at Frankfurt/Oder - Słubice, had existed since the Luxembourg emperor Charles IV became the sole ruler of both territories in 1373.The building of a bridge was not finished until 1919; it was blown up by retiring Wehrmacht troops on 4 February 1945 after the Red Army had reached the river in the course of the Vistula-Oder Offensive.After World War II the area together with the "Neumark" region fell to the Republic of Poland (see "Territorial changes of Poland after World War II") and the remaining German population was expelled.