Gołotczyzna
Gołotczyzna [ɡɔwɔtˈt͡ʂɨzna] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sońsk, within Ciechanów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) west of Sońsk, 10 km (6 mi) south of Ciechanów, and 67 km (42 mi) north of Warsaw.
History
Gołotczyzna was a private village of the Ostoja-Ostaszewski noble family, administratively located in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.
In 1827 Gołotczyzna had a population of 30, which by the 1880s grew to 122.
During the Korean War, in 1951–1953, Poland admitted 200 North Korean orphans in the village.
Sights
Villa Krzewina, the former home of Polish writer and philosopher Aleksander Świętochowski, houses the Positivism Museum.
Transport
There is a railway station in the village.
Notable people
- Aleksander Świętochowski (1849–1938), Polish writer, educator, and philosopher of the Positivist period
References
- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom II (in Polish). Warszawa. 1881. p. 678.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Sołtysik, Łukasz (2009). "Dzieci i młodzież północnokoreańska w Polsce w latach 1953–1954 w świetle wybranych dokumentów". Rocznik Jeleniogórski (in Polish). Vol. XLI. Jelenia Góra. p. 196. ISSN 0080-3480.
