Popielów, Opole Voivodeship

It was part of Piast-ruled Poland, and the local Roman Catholic parish was mentioned in documents in the late 13th century.

[2] Later on, the village passed to Bohemia (Czechia), and it was devastated in the Thirty Years' War.

During World War II, the Germans operated two forced labour subcamps (E608, E703) of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the village.

[3] On 21 July 1944, a German guard killed two British POWs, John Thomas Sanders and Henry Alexander Thomson, now buried at a local cemetery.

[4] The village was restored to Poland after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II in 1945.