The area of Zembrzyce was a border between Silesia and Lesser Poland in Medieval Times.

These were the dukes of Oświęcim that established the village and built a fortified castle on a hill nearby the Skawa river.

Nowadays, there aren't any ruins of the castle just the remains of the moat and the place is called Zamczysko.

The owners then changed the name of the village as to sound similar to their surname- Zubrzyccy.

There exists a belief that inhabitants of Zembrzyce have got Tatar ancestry; however this concept is not approved neither by any specific historical documents or facts, nor by ethnical and genetical traits of the inhabitants and the presence of medieval castle in the village in the past.