Szczepanowice is a district of Opole

Opole

Opole is a city in southern Poland on the Oder River . It has a population of 125,992 and is the capital of the Upper Silesia, Opole Voivodeship and, also the seat of Opole County...

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Poland

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History

Szczepanowice (the name derives from a variant of the Polish given name, Stefan

Stefán

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) was first mentioned as a settlement in the first half of the 13th century — in 1254 as Sczepanowicz, and in 1278 as Sczepanowice.

At the opening of the Third Silesian Uprising (1921), the town's railroad bridge was one of seven that were blown up by the Wawelberg Group

Wawelberg Group

The Wawelberg Group , also known as the Konrad Wawelberg Destruction Group , was a Polish special-forces unit. The group began the Third Silesian Uprising on May 2/3, 1921 by blowing up seven rail bridges linking Upper Silesia with the rest of Germany....

, a destruction unit run by Polish military intelligence (Section II).

Formerly a village, Szczepanowice was annexed to the city of Opole

Opole

Opole is a city in southern Poland on the Oder River . It has a population of 125,992 and is the capital of the Upper Silesia, Opole Voivodeship and, also the seat of Opole County...

 in 1936. It has some 3,200 residents and comprises mainly single-family dwellings. In addition there is a cluster of apartment houses on ulica Gospodarcza (Farm Street) and of row houses on ulica Stawowa (Pond Street).

In 1997 Szczepanowice suffered a thousand-year flood of the Odra River.