The Battle of Vistula Lagoon was fought nearby in 1463 during the Polish–Teutonic Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466), won by Poles. There is a memorial commemorating the Polish victory in the village. The settlement re-emerged in the mid-16th century, when it was part of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Malbork Voivodeship. It was annexed by Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772, and from 1871 to 1945 it also formed part of Germany, before it was restored to Poland after Nazi Germany's defeat in World War II. In the 19th century the village developed due to the ceramics industry, and the inhabitants also lived from fishing and working in a local brickyard.