 According to official statistics from 1827, the village of Retkinia (then located in Kalisz Voivodeship, Sieradz obwód, Szadek county) had 33 houses and a population of 300.By 1881, Retkinia had 50 houses and a population of 560.In 1902 the Warsaw-Kalisz railway line was opened, its tracks cutting the village in two.