Gościnowo () is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Skwierzyna, within
Międzyrzecz County,
Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland.
It lies approximately north-west of
Skwierzyna, north-west of
Międzyrzecz, and south-east of
Gorzów Wielkopolski
Gorzów Wielkopolski (; german: Landsberg an der Warthe) often abbreviated to Gorzów Wlkp. or simply Gorzów, is a city in western Poland, on the Warta river. It is the second largest city in the Lubusz Voivodeship with 120,087 inhabitants (Decemb ...
.
History
Gościnowo was founded in 1613 by Polish nobleman and
starosta
The starosta or starost (Cyrillic: ''старост/а'', Latin: ''capitaneus'', german: link=no, Starost, Hauptmann) is a term of Slavic origin denoting a community elder whose role was to administer the assets of a clan or family estates. Th ...
of nearby
Międzyrzecz Aleksander Zborowski. It was initially named Aleksandrowo after its founder. Administratively it was located in the Poznań County in the
Poznań Voivodeship in the
Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown. It was annexed by
Prussia in the
Second Partition of Poland in 1793. In 1807 it was regained by Poles and included in the short-lived
Duchy of Warsaw, and after its dissolution it was reannexed by Prussia in 1815.
From 1871 to 1945 it was part of
Germany. After the defeat of Germany in
World War II the region was restored to Poland by the
Potsdam Agreement
The Potsdam Agreement (german: Potsdamer Abkommen) was the agreement between three of the Allies of World War II: the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union on 1 August 1945. A product of the Potsdam Conference, it concerned th ...
under territorial changes demanded by the
Soviet Union.
References
Villages in Międzyrzecz County
1613 establishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Populated places established in 1613
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