the first record of "girbrechtsdorff" is documented in a 1357 deed itemising the villages within the burgraviate of radosno castle (german: "freudenburg"), that fell to the piast duke bolko ii the small of świdnica shortly afterwards, whose duchy in turn was finally incorporated as a silesian fief of the bohemian crown in 1392. during the 15th century görbersdorf had several possessors and suffered from the hussite wars. together with the southern part of the former duchy of świdnica the village passed to the imperial counts of hoberg (hochberg) at książ, the later princes of pless. with the bohemian kingdom the area fell to the habsburg monarchy in 1526 and was seized by prussia under king frederick ii in the first silesian war of 1742. from 1815 görbersdorf was part of the prussian province of silesia.