Formerly a separate village; it became a part of the Greater Kraków in 1911 under the Austrian Partition of Poland as the 21st cadastral district of the city.
Goeth's actions at Płaszów Labour Camp became internationally known through his depiction by British actor Ralph Fiennes in the 1993 film Schindler's List.
Schindler made plans to open a munitions factory in Brněnec, Czechoslovakia, using the workers he had at Płaszów.