sentences:  The settlement was first mentioned in a Latin document of Diocese of Wrocław called "Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis" from around 1305 as "item in Petirwalde".It meant that the village was in the process of location (the size of land to pay tithe from was not yet precised).The "walde" (German for "a wood") ending of its name indicates that the primordial settlers were of German origins.