Gołotczyzna | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Masovian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Ciechanów |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Sońsk |
Coordinates: | 52.7833°N 61°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Population Total: | 727 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | WCI |
Gołotczyzna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sońsk, within Ciechanów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 3km (02miles) west of Sońsk, 100NaN0 south of Ciechanów, and 670NaN0 north of Warsaw.
Gołotczyzna was a private village of the Ostoja-Ostaszewski noble family, administratively located in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.
In 1827 Gołotczyzna had a population of 30, which by the 1880s grew to 122.[2]
During the Korean War, in 1951–1953, Poland admitted 200 North Korean orphans in the village.[3]
Villa Krzewina, the former home of Polish writer and philosopher Aleksander Świętochowski, houses the Positivism Museum.
There is a railway station in the village.