The name of the village is possibly derived from
Slavic chleb ("bread"). It was first documented as
Schwchleb and
Nemascleb in the 1295
Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis document by the
Bishops of Wrocław. The settlement then was located at the eastern border of the German
March of Lusatia, close to the Silesian
Duchy of Głogów. 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. ==References==