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The site is also called the "castle" on Kotówka. It is located on the Rybnik Plateau on the territory of the municipality of Lubomia. It is situated on the summit of a small, forested hill, surrounded on three sides by deep valleys. There are no direct written sources regarding the "castle." The monument is probably the remains of a fortified princely residence from the fourteenth-fifteenth centuries, which is associated with the Racibórz prince John (b. c. 1332 -- d. between 1380-1382) or his son John II the Iron (b. c. 1365, d. 1424). It is also unknown when the fortress was destroyed, possibly during the Hussite wars in the 1430s. During archaeological work in 2005 conducted by Mirosław Furmanek and Sławomir Kulpa, traces of Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age settlement were also encountered, which is rare in the Upper Silesian region. The finds discovered during the excavations are in the Museum in Wodzisław Śl. Associated with the "castle" on Kotówka is a legend of the Hangman, a cruel prince who, after his defeat in a battle with Jagielło, seeing the fall of his fortress, ran himself through with a sword.
