In the early 13th century a monastery was founded at the site, however, it was destroyed in the
First Mongol invasion of Poland in 1241. The
Cistercians rebuilt the monastery in 1252–1255. A foundation document was issued by Duke
Władysław Opolski of the Polish
Piast dynasty in 1258, and it was confirmed by
Pope Gregory X in 1274. The Cistercians developed the village. In the early 14th century, Duke
Przemysław of Racibórz funded the construction of a new church (present-day Basilica) in Rudy. During
World War II, the Germans established and operated three
forced labour subcamps (E374, E588, E742) of the
Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the village. In the final stages of the war, in 1945, a German-conducted
death march of prisoners of a
subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp in
Sosnowiec passed through the village towards
Opava. ==Sports==