 The town was included in Landkreis Groß Strehlitz within the Prussian Province of Silesia in 1816.Leschnitz became part of the German Empire in 1871 during the unification of Germany.During the Nazi campaign of renaming of placenames, in 1936 while part of the Province of Upper Silesia, it was renamed "Bergstadt" ("mountain town") to remove traces of Polish origin.