Wiejce is a village picturesquely situated on a bank of the Warta River within the Noteć Forest. Its beginnings date back to the early 18th century when the land along the Warta were successively colonised. The first proprietors were the Kwilecki family, well known throughout the Wielkopolska region.
Wiejce passed into Prussian hands as the result of the third partition of Poland among the three powers of central Europe, Major von Kothen becoming its owner in the first half of the 19th century who constructed the grange and the nearby Palace around 1860, together with the surrounding park. The Palace was to become both a family residence and a manor performing a representative function. Consistent with the erstwhile fashionable neo-baroque style, the ground floor held ancillary, general facilities (kitchen, cupboards and studies), together with a large hall, the upper storey being devoted to representative rooms (ballroom, living and sitting rooms and salons, also the owners' apartments). The Palace attics served as guest rooms and also for the personnel.
As time passed, the village experienced a series of better and worse periods, with the estate ultimately becoming the property of the von Benninngsen family. Oberleutenant Aleksander von Benninngsen extended the estate in the 1930s. The manor house building was enlarged by side breaks, the elevations being simultaneously unified in design and the interiors being accorded new functions. The result was that the building became a true Palace linking elements of various architectural styles.
The object was overhauled and renovated several time between the First and Second World Wars. In 1945 the whole estate was taken over by the State Treasury in an ideal state. Initially the Palace housed a school and later, from the 1970s, it was used as a children's holiday centre.
Not many elements of the Palace's original décor have survived, but among those which merit the greatest attention are the neo-baroque oak-wood staircase leading from the main hall on the ground floor, also the partially original stained-glass windows above it.
The sole building which remains from the historical grange outhouses is the so-called Steward's House (formerly a granary). Another feature from the former park lay-out which has survived to the present is the remains of the old original forest stand and the system of three ponds.