 In 1839 the State Treasury sold the forest in Retkinia to brothers Konstanty and Jan Sięmiątkowski, and in 1841 the village was transferred into the ownership of Mateusz Lubowidzki, a member of the Council of State of the Kingdom of Poland.The latter sold the village to Wilhelm Nencki in 1854, whose family was compensated by the state following the abolition of serfdom in Congress Poland in 1864.Nencki tried to force the local peasants back into serfdom in 1864 but met with resistance and failed.