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In the valley of the Sumina River, an earthen mound of a hill fort has been preserved, on which in the Middle Ages a wooden defensive tower stood, serving as the knightly seat of the village's owner. Many local legends are associated with the mound. The residents of Górki Śląskie call this place Zamek na Kopcu (Castle on the Mound). It served not only a residential function, but also a defensive one. The knightly seat was located on an artificially constructed mound surrounded on three sides by a ditch. From the southern side, the Sumina River formed a natural obstacle. The diameter of the mound on which a probably three-story residential tower was situated was approximately 40 m. Currently, the mound is an embankment in the shape of an ellipse with a length of 19 m and a width of 10 m. The remains of the hill fort first attracted attention in 1924, when an iron gauntlet, an iron door lock, and numerous fragments of medieval pottery were found by chance. Researchers from the Silesian Museum in Bytom, working under the direction of Dr. Georg Raschke, took interest in the findings. The artifacts resulting from excavations from 1929-1930 were transferred to the Museum in Raciborz, as confirmed by a protocol dated March 5, 1942, but a significant portion of them was lost at the end of World War II in 1945. The time and circumstances of the hill fort's fall are unknown. Burned wooden beam remnants, characteristic soil discoloration, arrowheads, and a bent-tipped belt buckle testify to its destruction during an invasion.
