Tarczyn was first mentioned in 1259. In 1353 the Mazovian Duke Casimir I gave the locality its Magdeburgian Town Charter and financed the founding of Gothic St. Nicolas’s church. Tarczyn was administratively located in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province until the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, when it was annexed by Prussia.
Tarczyn was first mentioned in 1259. In 1353, Duke Casimir I of Mazovia granted the town its Magdeburgian municipal charter and funded the construction of Gothic St. Nicholas's church. Tarczyn was administratively part of the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province until it was annexed by Prussia in 1795.