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Skorogoszcz is a village in the Brzeg district, in the Lewin Brzeski municipality. The village was mentioned for the first time in a Latinized form in a document from 1223, issued by the Bishop of Wrocław, Lorenz. Its name probably derives from the surname of its first owner. In Skorogoszcz, there was a crossing over the Nysa Kłodzka river, thanks to which the town owed its initial development. Before 1271, Skorogoszcz obtained its town charter. Skorogoszcz played an important role until 1310 as the seat of the ducal customs chamber. Until 1532, it belonged to the Duchy of Opole and Niemodlin, and then to the Bohemian Crown and the Habsburgs. After 1741, it became part of Prussia. In the western part of the village, there is a market square with a few Classicist buildings and the 19th-century Church of St. James, built in the Neo-Romanesque style. At the parish cemetery, there is a complex of 19th-century tomb monuments. In the southern part of the village, one can find a palace complex with a park and a water tower.