Gołotczyzna
Village in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Gołotczyzna [ɡɔwɔtˈt͡ʂɨzna] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sońsk, within Ciechanów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[2]
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.[3] According to the 1921 census, the village with the adjacent manor farm had a population of 141, entirely Polish by nationality and 95.0% Roman Catholic by confession.[4]
During the Korean War, in 1951–1953, Poland admitted 200 North Korean orphans in the village.[5]
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