Gościno

The territory became part of the emerging Duchy of Poland under its first ruler Mieszko I around 967.^[3] The earliest documentation of the village of Gościno appears in the year 1238 as a property of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. The town's name derives from the Old Polish male name Gościmir.^[4] A main tourist site in Gościno, the Church of St. Andrew Bobola, houses a cup-shaped baptismal font hewn from one Gotland limestone boulder, from the 12th and 13th centuries. It is one of the few sacred relics of this kind in Western Pomerania.^[5]

During earlier centuries the settlement had been a domain owned and farmed out by the town of Kołobrzeg.^{[citation needed]} It had been bought by the town's magistrate in the 14th century from the abbot of Doberan Abbey. Around 1780 the domain included 16 farm houses.^{[citation needed]}

From the 18th century the village was part of the Kingdom of Prussia and from 1871 to 1945 it was also part of Germany, administratively located in the Landkreis Kolberg-Körlin of the Province of Pomerania. During World War II, in February 1945, a German-perpetrated death march of Allied prisoners-of-war from the Stalag XX-B POW camp passed through the town.^[6] After the defeat of Nazi Germany in the war in 1945 the area became again part of Poland.

Since 1 January 2011 Gościno has had the status of a town.

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  IV Dywizji Wojska Polskiego Street
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  Public library
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  Memorial stone
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  Old house

• Egon Schultz (1943–1964) a German sergeant of the East German Border Troops who became the fifty-second known person to die at the Berlin Wall

• Landkreis Kolberg-Körlin