Gościno Explained

Gościno
Settlement Type:Town
Total Type: 
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Voivodeship
Subdivision Name1:West Pomeranian
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Kołobrzeg
Subdivision Type3:Gmina
Subdivision Name3:Gościno
Coordinates:54.0536°N 15.6506°W
Pushpin Map:Poland
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Established Title:First mentioned
Established Date:13th century
Established Title3:Town rights
Established Date3:2011
Population Total:2332
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Area Code:+48 94
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:78-120
Blank Name:Car plates
Blank Info:ZKL
Blank Name Sec2:Voivodeship roads

Gościno (pronounced as /pl/; ; 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 14km (09miles) south-east of Kołobrzeg and 1000NaN0 north-east of the regional capital Szczecin.

The town has a population of 2,332.

History

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortschaften jenseits von Oder u. Neiße . M. Kaemmerer. 2004. 3-7921-0368-0 . German.
  2. Web site: Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) . 2008-06-01 . Polish.
  3. Labuda. Gerard. 1993. Chrystianizacja Pomorza (X–XIII stulecie). Studia Gdańskie. pl. Gdańsk-Oliwa. IX. 47.
  4. Edward Breza, Zeszyty Kulickie, 1999, p. 96 (in Polish)
  5. http://www.parseta.pl/index.php?objectid=582 Strona główna - Parsęta
  6. Book: Kaszuba, Sylwia. Grudziecka. Beata. Stalag XX B: historia nieopowiedziana. pl. Malbork. Muzeum Miasta Malborka. 102, 109. Marsz 1945. 978-83-950992-2-9.