Goszyce (Lesser Poland Voivodeship)

The village is located 19 km from the administrative center of the province of Krakow ^[2] .

The first written mention of the village refers to the document of the Polish king Casimir the Great of 1381. Initially, the village belonged to Queen Jadwig . In 1398, King Jagiello presented the village with a Krakow chapter. Later, the village belonged to Jadwiga from Tenchina.

In 1673, a wooden manor was built in the village, which has survived to our time.

In 1820, the owner of the village was Professor of the Jagiellonian University of Wojciech Jerzy Bodushinsky . For the participation of Felix Bodushinsky in the November uprising , which was the son of Wojciech Jerzy Bodushinsky, the Russian government in 1831 confiscated land in Goshitsa. After the amnesty, the property was returned to the owner. In 1890, the grandson of Wojciech Jerzy Bodushinsky Arthur Zawisha built another manor in Goshitsa.

On August 4, 1914, a streltsy patrol stopped in the village under the command of the future colonel of the cavalry of the Polish Army Vladislav Belina-Prazhmovsky , as mentioned by a memorial plaque installed on one of the houses in the village.

The daughter of Arthur Zawiszy, the Polish writer Zofia Kernova owned the village until 1945, when the land was transferred to state ownership for use by the Mining and Metallurgical Academy . In the post-war period, the training center of this academy was located in Goshitsa. At the turn of 1944-1945, in the village in the estate of Zofia Kernova, the Polish poet Ceslav Milos hid after escaping from the camp.

In 1975-1998, the village was part of the Cracow Voivodeship.

As of 2013, 523 people lived in the village ^[3] .

2013 census data :

• The old manor is a cultural monument of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship ^[4] . The oldest wooden manor in Poland (dates from 1673). Included in the tourist route " Lesser Way of wooden architecture ";
• Manor Zavishey is a cultural monument of Lesser Poland Voivodeship ^[4] .

• Village History (Polish)
• Główny Urząd Statystyczny - TERYT (Polish)
• Rozporządzenie Ministra Administracji i Cyfryzacji z dnia 13 grudnia 2012 r. w sprawie wykazu urzędowych nazw miejscowości i ich części. "Dziennik Ustaw". Nr 29, 2013-02-13. Ministerstwo Administracji i Cyfryzacji (Polish)