Gołąb is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...
in the administrative district of
Gmina Puławy, within
Puławy County
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Puławy County ( pl, powiat puławski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was first established in 1867, but its current borders were established on January 1, 1 ...
,
Lublin Voivodeship
The Lublin Voivodeship, also known as the Lublin Province ( Polish: ''województwo lubelskie'' ), is a voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in southeastern part of the country. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Lublin, C ...
, in
eastern Poland
Eastern Poland is a macroregion in Poland comprising the Lublin, Podkarpackie, Podlaskie, Świętokrzyskie, and Warmian-Masurian voivodeships.
The make-up of the distinct macroregion is based not only of geographical criteria, but also econo ...
. It lies approximately north-west of
Puławy
Puławy (, also written Pulawy) is a city in eastern Poland, in Lesser Poland's Lublin Voivodeship, at the confluence of the Vistula and Kurówka Rivers. Puławy is the capital of Puławy County. The city's 2019 population was estimated at 47,4 ...
and north-west of the regional capital
Lublin.
As of 2011, the population of the village is 2227.
Gołąb means "pigeon" in Polish.
Monuments
*
Saints Catherine and Florian Church
*
Loreto House
Loreto House was established in 1842 in Kolkata, by the Sisters of Loreto belonging to the institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is the oldest and the first Loreto institution to be established in India and was one of the few all-girls Catho ...
* A figure of
John of Nepomuk
John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) ( cs, Jan Nepomucký; german: Johannes Nepomuk; la, Ioannes Nepomucenus) ( 1345 – 20 March 1393)
was the saint of Bohemia (Czech Republic) who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of Wenceslaus ...
* Museum of Unusual Bicycles.
History
The first historical mention of the town was in the XII century. The parish church was constructed between 1628–1636, and the Loreto House was constructed between 1634 and 1638.
An invading
Swedish army routed a Polish army in the
Battle of Gołąb 1656.
The Gołąbska Confederation was found on the 16 October, 1672.
In 1939, Germans bombed the airport and a nearby lake. A dozen or so women who were washing clothes and bedding by the lake, were mistakenly recognised by paratroopers and died.
References
Villages in Puławy County
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