The chapel is dated to the 17th century. According to one local tradition, during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648), when the Swedes burned the village, the inhabitants fled in crowds to the Oder and took shelter in a great ravine. The soldiers did not find the praying survivors of the fire – at the critical moment a thick fog fell on the ravine. In gratitude for this rescue the community erected the chapel. Another tradition, also connected with the Thirty Years’ War, links this place with a mass grave of the victims of that war. Information in the chronicle of Folwark indicates that a spring rose not far from the cross, used by travellers from Opole – indeed, local accounts say that east of the chapel there was once a “lake” (probably an oxbow of the Oder), now drained.
Another, later story is also connected with this place – not far from the chapel, even before the Second World War, a young man possessed by jealousy murdered a girl who refused him her hand. The murder shook the whole neighbourhood, and the murderer was found hidden in a haystack. He was tried and is said to have been executed in Bytom.