The village was first mentioned in a document of the
Diocese of Wrocław from 1223 under the
Latinized Polish name
Scorogostow. In a document of Duke
Casimir I of Opole from 1228 it was mentioned as a village located on Polish law. It was granted
town rights in 1271, which it eventually lost in 1945. It was part of
Piast-ruled
Poland, and later on, it was also part of
Bohemia (Czechia) under the
Holy Roman Empire,
Prussia and
unified Germany. During
World War II, the German Nazi government operated the E778
forced labour subcamp of the
Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the town. Skorogoszcz became again part of Poland after the defeat of
Nazi Germany in the war in 1945. A new
cable-stayed bridge was built in Skorogoszcz in 2004–2005. ==Transport==