The first palace in Szałsza was built in the second half of the 18th century - its baroque building was erected for Anna von Winter. In the 1930s, Szałsza and the neighboring Żerniki were bought by Antonia von Groeling. The Groeling family came from the Duchy of Anhalt (a land in central Germany, on the Elbe). She enjoyed nobility for a short time, since 1768. In Upper Silesia, they owned the estates of Pniów, Rudziniec, Zacharzowice and Ligota. In Szałsza, they signed up as good farmers, undertaking drainage works, using agricultural machinery and artificial fertilizers.
A permanent trace of the Groelings is the palace in Szałsza, located right next to the historic church. The representative building gained its final shape in the 1870s, during the times of Wiktor von Groeling. It is a two-story building, built of intensely red brick, on a rectangular plan. Stylistically it refers to the English Tudor Gothic. The decorative turrets, projections and the battlement crowning the building attract attention. Currently, this building is in private hands. The palace in Szałsza is surrounded by a nice park with many trees-monuments of nature. At the wooden church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, there is a tombstone with the names of the Groelings and their coat of arms; there is also a stone cross, funded at the end of the 19th century by one of the family members.