Szczygłowice is a dzielnica of Knurów within the wider Upper Silesian–Dąbrowa Basin Metropolis in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
Etymology As part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1830, the settlement's name was recorded as , or in German. Writing in the later nineteenth century, the Silesian geographer Heinrich Adamy recorded its name as , the German form of , which he proposed was derived from the Slavic word (goldfinch).
References
External links The Osiedle Szczygłowice blog covering the history of the settlement.