Palowice is a village lying in the district of Rybnik, in the commune of CzerwionkaLeszczyny. There are a few monuments including the ruins of the steel mill “Waleska”, a neo-Classicist mansion, an old distillery and remains of the historic park at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The Palowice manor house, built by the family of Winckler Tiele between 1860 and 1880, is located on a small hill near the center of the village, and is commonly called, with great exaggeration, the castle.