lready in the second half of the thirteenth century, the Czech knight Wok erected a Gothic castle here. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries it was expanded by the dukes of Opole. After the death of the last member of the family, it passed into private hands. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, it succumbed to fire and fell into disrepair. The Prussian authorities dismantled it in 1844, and the castle tower with a circular plan from the 14th-15th centuries