The village was first mentioned in a Latin document of
Diocese of Wrocław called
Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from around 1305 as ''''. It meant that the village was supposed to pay a
tithe from 11
greater lans. The creation of the village was a part of a larger settlement campaign taking place in the late 13th century on the territory of what will be later known as
Upper Silesia. The village belonged initially to the
Duchy of Teschen, formed in 1290 in the process of
feudal fragmentation of Poland and was ruled by a local branch of
Piast dynasty. In 1327 the duchy became a
fee of the
Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became part of the
Habsburg monarchy. The village became a seat of a Catholic
parish, probably mentioned already in an incomplete register of
Peter's Pence payment from 1335 as
Hankendorf and as such being one of the oldest in the region. It was (again?) mentioned in the register of Peter's Pence payment from 1447 among 50 parishes of Teschen
deanery as
Heyczendorff. After the 1540s
Protestant Reformation prevailed in the Duchy of Teschen and a local Catholic church was taken over by
Lutherans. It was taken from them (as one from around fifty buildings) in the region by a special commission and given back to the
Roman Catholic Church on 16 April 1654. After
Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire a modern
municipal division was introduced in the re-established
Austrian Silesia. The village as a municipality was subscribed to the
political and
legal district of
Bielsko. According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality grew from 1673 in 1880 to 2365 in 1910 with a dwindling majority being native Polish-speakers (from 96.9% in 1880 and 97% in 1890 to 76.3% in 1910) accompanied by a growing German-speaking minority (from 43 or 2.6% in 1880 to 539 or 22.8% in 1910) and a few Czech-speaking persons (at most 8 or 0.5% in 1880), in terms of religion in 1910 majority were
Protestants (51.3%), followed by
Roman Catholics (47.1%)
Jews (23 or 0.9%) and 16 adhering to yet another faith. The village was also traditionally inhabited by
Cieszyn Vlachs, speaking
Cieszyn Silesian dialect. After
World War I, fall of
Austria-Hungary,
Polish–Czechoslovak War and the division of
Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, it became a part of
Poland. It was then
annexed by
Nazi Germany at the beginning of
World War II. After the war it was restored to
Poland. == Landmarks ==