Gościno (; ; formerly german: Groß Jestin) is a small

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

Kołobrzeg County __NOTOC__ Kołobrzeg County ( pl, powiat kołobrzeski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland, on the Baltic coast. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a resu ...

West Pomeranian Voivodeship The West Pomeranian Voivodeship, also known as the West Pomerania Province, is a voivodeship (province) in northwestern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Szczecin. Its area equals 22 892.48 km² (8,838.84 sq mi), and in 2021, it was i ...

, in north-western

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. It is the seat of the

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' , from German ''Gemeinde'' meaning ''commune'') is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,477 gminas throughout the country, encompassing over 4 ...

(administrative district) called

Gmina Gościno __NOTOC__ Gmina Gościno is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Kołobrzeg County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Gościno, which lies approximately south-east of Kołobrzeg and north-e ...

. It lies in

Pomerania Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The western part of Pomerania belongs to ...

, approximately south-east of

Kołobrzeg Kołobrzeg ( ; csb, Kòlbrzég; german: Kolberg, ), ; csb, Kòlbrzég , is a port city in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in north-western Poland with about 47,000 inhabitants (). Kołobrzeg is located on the Parsęta River on the south coast o ...

and north-east of the regional capital

Szczecin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major s ...

. The town has a population of 2,332.

History

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

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male name Gościmir. 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.Strona główna - Parsęta
/ref> During earlier centuries the settlement had been a domain owned and farmed out by the town of

. It had been bought by the town's magistrate in the 14th century from the abbot of

Doberan Abbey Doberan Abbey (''Kloster Doberan'') is a former Cistercian monastery in Bad Doberan, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The Brick Gothic church continues in use as Doberan Minster (''Doberaner Münster''). After the conversion to Christianity of th ...

. Around 1780 the domain included 16 farm houses. From the 18th century the village was part of the

Kingdom of Prussia The Kingdom of Prussia (german: Königreich Preußen, ) was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. Re ...

and from 1871 to 1945 it was also part of

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, administratively located in the

Landkreis Kolberg-Körlin Kolberg-Körlin (earlier spelling Colberg-Cörlin) was a ''Landkreis'' (county) in the Prussian Province of Pomerania between 1872 and 1945. Its territory roughly corresponds with modern Kołobrzeg County __NOTOC__ Kołobrzeg County ( pl, pow ...

of the Province of Pomerania. After the defeat of

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in 1945 it became part of Poland. Since 1 January 2011 Gościno has had the status of a town.

Gallery

File:Goscino-180715-2.jpg, IV Dywizji Wojska Polskiego Street File:Goscino-biblioteka-070905-90.jpg, Public library File:Goscino-memorial-stone-1-180715.jpg, Memorial stone File:Goscino-house-180715-3.jpg, Old house

Notable people

Egon Schultz Egon Schultz (4 January 1943 – 5 October 1964) was a German sergeant of the East German Border Troops who became the fifty-second known person to die at the Berlin Wall. While responding to the discovery of "Tunnel 57," Schultz was kille ...

(1943–1964) a German sergeant of the East German Border Troops who became the fifty-second known person to die at the Berlin Wall

References

External links

List of municipalities in Kolberg-Körlin

Website der Gemeinde (BIP)
(Polish)
Webseite mit Informationen über das Dorf
(German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Goscino Cities and towns in West Pomeranian Voivodeship Kołobrzeg County

History

Gallery

Notable people

See also

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