Castle was built by King Kazimierz the Great, and the administration says that the name castrum Oczec was established in honor of his father Wladyslaw the Short, who was once close to Ojców hiding from enemy troops. The exact dating is not possible, but it can be assumed that the castle was built between 1354 year, when the king received from the bishopric of Cracow these lands, and the year 1370, when he was already established here margrave Zaklika. Originally the castle consisted of an octagonal tower of the final defense buildings situated on the cliffs towering over the rest of the hill, perimeter walls circling erratically on the edge of the hill and the quadrangular gate tower dostawionej to the rocks at the foot of donjon. Dwelling house erected along the eastern section of the peripheral walls. Promontory cut off from the rest of the hill a deep ditch, over which the drawbridge over. Casimir the Great Fathers created in the county, the first known was alderman John of Korzkwia the late fourteenth century.

In 1400, the castle was pledged by Wladyslaw Jagiello. Further prefects were representatives of many wealthy families, among other things Szafrańcowie, Boner, Myszkowscy and Korycińscy. The work of construction or repair of their reign there is no information, however, is likely to have to be some carried out, since only in 1620 recorded a bad state of the castle. Probably he was not used to this time as a permanent seat of their respective owners. In the said document from 1620 mentions taken by Nicholas Korycińskiego reconstruction and expansion of the fortress. The work took a long time, after the death of Nicholas were still continued by his sons Ferdinand and Stephen. As a result of these works were created was the residence of the new residential house positioned on the protruding south in the area gate rock promontory. The building had a basement and had two floors ground. It included, among other things chapel. At the center of the courtyard was a deep cut into the rock well.

During the Swedish invasion the invaders seized the castle without a fight and probably arranged in the armory, and the food. After the withdrawal of the Swedes, the castle was renovated by Stanislaw Korycińskiego, and in 1676 years the county took Warszyccy paternal and later Męcińscy and the Sea. In 1721 the governor was Boguslaw Łubieński, later Załuscy. In 1787 the castle was undertaken Stanisław August Poniatowski, then the governor, with the rest of the last, here was Theophilus Zaluski. After the partitions of Polish At the end of the eighteenth century, the castle began to be neglected and fell into disrepair, residents eventually left him in 1826. When it was put into auction purchase made ​​Wolicki Constantine, who had demolished a large part of the walls and buildings to obtain building material. Another owner, Wojciech Prendowski, wore Although with the intention of rebuilding the castle, commissioning plans for the implementation of these works known architect Francis Mary Lanciemu, but the restaurant did not even work began. Completed while the work of destruction, when the Gothic stone castle ordered to erect an inn and brewery. Surviving octagonal tower in 1913 lowered fearing that the lower part of the walls will not hold the load.

Currently, there are preserved gate tower, octagonal tower, ground floor of the building walls and the remains of the southern outer walls. The courtyard has been preserved as well. From the bridge leading to the gate tower are preserved only partially stone pillars. The octagonal tower you can see traces of the stairs and the fireplace are from the fourteenth century.