In 1424 the bishopric was moved from the overlordship of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg leaving Polish province of the church. The last Catholic bishop was Georg von Blumenthal, who died in 1550 after a heroic non-military counter-reformationary campaign. Since 1555-1598 the bishopric was secularised and became a Lutheran diocese and the area was called East Brandenburg. At this time, all official links with Poland had been cut. Since 1701 the area belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia, since 1871 to Germany. The most numerous Polish minority was in the village of Kalau (current Polish name: Kaława), although the great majority (90+%) of the population was German.
Most of the Lubusz Land was transferred to Poland in 1945 while the Germans retained areas west of the Oder river including town Lebus, the historical capital of the region. The biggest city of the Polish part of Lubus Land is Gorzow Wielkopolski (German: Landsberg (Warthe)).
