Gołotczyzna


Gołotczyzna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sońsk, within Ciechanów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.

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. According to the [1921 Polish people|Polish census|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.
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