Gościce
Gościce is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Paczków, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border, where neighboring Horní Hoštice is located. It lies approximately south-west of Paczków, west of Nysa, and west of the regional capital Opole. Before 1945 the area was part of Germany.
The village has a population of 470.History
The present-day Polish village Gościce and the present-day Czech village Horní Hoštice, directly across the Czech side of the border, were once a single village. After the Silesian Wars, the newly-drawn border divided the village in two. The division continued through the Communist era of 1945–1990, and the border was not easily crossed until the two countries joined the Schengen Area in 2007.
