Kępa Gostecka is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Łaziska __NOTOC__ Gmina Łaziska is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Opole Lubelskie County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Łaziska, Opole Lubelskie County, Łaziska, which lies approximately west of Opole Lub ...

, within

Opole Lubelskie County Opole County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrat ...

Lublin Voivodeship Lublin Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in the southeastern part of the country, with its capital being the city of Lublin. The region is named after its largest city and regional capital, Lu ...

, in eastern Poland. Until 2005 it was part of Gmina Solec nad Wisłą in

Masovian Voivodeship Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province (, ) and any variation thereof, is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw. Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...

. It lies approximately west of Łaziska, west of

Opole Lubelskie Opole Lubelskie is a town in southeastern Poland. As of 2004, it had 8,879 inhabitants. The town is situated in Lublin Voivodeship, some 10 kilometers east of the Vistula River, and is the capital of Opole Lubelskie County. It was founded in the 1 ...

, and west of the regional capital

Lublin Lublin is List of cities and towns in Poland, the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the centre of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin i ...

History

The village was founded in 1789 by the Świętokrzyskie Benedictines on the land taken by the Vistula village of Goszcza in the place where after the flood of the Vistula the village land remained the only farm field on the Vistula clump (Chałupa Goszcza)

References

Villages in Opole Lubelskie County {{OpoleLubelskie-geo-stub