Moszna Castle

Archaeological work has found traces of a medieval wooden structure on the site, and cellar fragments uncovered in the garden early in the twentieth century were linked in 1929 by H. Barthel to a Templar stronghold supposedly joined by tunnels to the castle at Chrzelice — an attribution that is doubtful. Further excavations after the Second World War uncovered a medieval palisade.

Analysis of the surrounding park suggests a palace-garden estate already existed here in the eighteenth century, though the building itself may then have been no more than a modest manor house. The Baroque palace is first documented in Johann Georg Knie's work of 1845, when Moszna belonged to the Seherr-Thoss family.

Heinrich von Erdmansdorf bought the estate in 1853, and in 1866 it was bought by the industrialist Hubert von Tiele-Winckler; Moszna became the main residence of the Tiele-Wincklers, a family of Silesian industrial magnates. A fire of undetermined cause partially destroyed the Baroque palace in 1896; Hubert's eldest son and heir, Franz Hubert, starosta of Prudnik county, rebuilt it in two phases — the burnt centre and a new Neo-Gothic east wing between 1896 and 1900, and a Neo-Renaissance west wing completed in 1914.

As Franz Hubert's guest, the German Emperor Wilhelm II attended hunts on the estate in 1911 and again the following year.

During the Second World War part of the palace was adapted for a branch of the military hospital at Prudnik, and the fighting left the building all but unharmed. The damage came in 1945, when Soviet Red Army units were quartered inside: much of the furnishings was wrecked and most of the artworks held there, chiefly paintings and sculptures, were carried off.

The Prudnik county education inspector Stanisław Nabzdyk and a professor named Czaplicki secured what books and fittings remained, entrusting the surviving property to a former estate worker. Returning a fortnight later, they found the library ransacked and paintings, statues and furniture gone; the caretaker reported that soldiers 'of various ranks' had come and removed the more valuable pieces, though state authorities maintained that no military unit had sent vehicles to Moszna.

In the spring of 1945 the Tiele-Winckler family fled west of the new Oder–Neisse line as this part of Silesia passed under Polish jurisdiction and its remaining German population was expelled.

A State Horse Stud was founded in 1948 on part of the former estate's land. The palace itself housed various institutions briefly until 1972, when it became a convalescent home, and from 1996 the Neurosis Therapy Centre.

The health institution moved to a nearby building in 2013, and a hotel and restaurant have run in the palace since; its facade was restored between 2021 and 2022.