Gościno

Gościno (Polish: [ɡɔɕˈt͡ɕinɔ]; Kashubian: Gòscëno; German: Groß Jestin)^[1] is a small town in Kołobrzeg County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Gościno.^[2] It lies in Pomerania, approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi) south-east of Kołobrzeg and 100 km (62 mi) north-east of the regional capital Szczecin.

Gościno
Town
Karlińska Street
Coat of arms
Gościno
Coordinates: 54°3′13″N 15°39′2″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	West Pomeranian
County	Kołobrzeg
Gmina	Gościno
First mentioned	13th century
Town rights	2011
Population	2,332
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	78-120
Area code	+48 94
Car plates	ZKL
Voivodeship roads

The town has a population of 2,332.

History

Saint Andrew Bobola church

The territory became part of the emerging Polish state under its first ruler Mieszko I around 967.^[3] The earliest documentation of the village of Gościno appears in the year 1238 as a property of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. The town's name derives from the Old Polish male name Gościmir.^[4] A main tourist site in Gościno, the Church of St. Andrew Bobola, houses a cup-shaped baptismal font hewn from one Gotland limestone boulder, from the 12th and 13th centuries. It is one of the few sacred relics of this kind in Western Pomerania.^[5]

During earlier centuries the settlement had been a domain owned and farmed out by the town of Kołobrzeg.^{[citation needed]} It had been bought by the town's magistrate in the 14th century from the abbot of Doberan Abbey. Around 1780 the domain included 16 farm houses.^{[citation needed]}

From the 18th century the village was part of the Kingdom of Prussia and from 1871 to 1945 it was also part of Germany, administratively located in the Landkreis Kolberg-Körlin of the Province of Pomerania. During World War II, in February 1945, a German-perpetrated death march of Allied prisoners-of-war from the Stalag XX-B POW camp passed through the town.^[6] After the defeat of Nazi Germany in the war in 1945 the area became again part of Poland.

Since 1 January 2011 Gościno has had the status of a town.

Gallery

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  IV Dywizji Wojska Polskiego Street
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  Public library
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  Memorial stone
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  Old house

Notable people

• Egon Schultz (1943–1964) a German sergeant of the East German Border Troops who became the fifty-second known person to die at the Berlin Wall

See also

• Landkreis Kolberg-Körlin

References

1. M. Kaemmerer (2004). Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortschaften jenseits von Oder u. Neiße (in German). ISBN 3-7921-0368-0.
2. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
3. Labuda, Gerard (1993). "Chrystianizacja Pomorza (X–XIII stulecie)". Studia Gdańskie (in Polish). Vol. IX. Gdańsk-Oliwa. p. 47.
4. Edward Breza, Zeszyty Kulickie, 1999, p. 96 (in Polish)
5. Strona główna - Parsęta
6. Kaszuba, Sylwia. "Marsz 1945". In Grudziecka, Beata (ed.). Stalag XX B: historia nieopowiedziana (in Polish). Malbork: Muzeum Miasta Malborka. pp. 102, 109. ISBN 978-83-950992-2-9.

External links

• Website of Gmina Gościno (BIP) (Polish)