Gościno
Town
Karlińska Street
Karlińska Street
Coat of arms of Gościno
Coat of arms
Gościno is located in Poland
Gościno
Gościno
Coordinates: 54°3′13″N 15°39′2″E / 54.05361°N 15.65056°E / 54.05361; 15.65056
Country Poland
VoivodeshipWest Pomeranian
CountyKołobrzeg
GminaGościno
First mentioned13th century
Town rights2011
Population
2,332
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
78-120
Area code+48 94
Car platesZKL
Voivodeship roads

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.

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. 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.

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.

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

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.
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