[2][3] The oak tree grows in the Łężczok nature reserve, along the avenue running along the embankment separating the Grabowiec and Brzeziniak ponds, named the Polish Hussars Alley.

[4] Nearby the oak, there is also a historic hunting lodge from the 18th century and a wooden cross commemorating a forest guard killed by a poacher.

[2] The oak's name comes from a legend according to which the tree was planted to commemorate King John III Sobieski's stay in those areas during his march to the Battle of Vienna in 1683.

[2] On the other hand, Jan Duda, in his publication Natural Features of Racibórz from 2001, writes about a legend according to which King John III Sobieski allegedly stopped under the oak while traveling to Vienna.

Ten years later, by decision of the Presidium of the Provincial National Council in Opole on 14 April 1967, the tree was granted individual protection, becoming a natural monument.

[7] In the 1970s, the crack left by the third trunk was sealed with a concrete plug by Franciszek Polaczek, a forester from Nędza, on his own initiative.