Gołąb | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lublin |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Puławy |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Puławy |
Coordinates: | 51.4869°N 21.8753°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Elevation M: | 115 |
Population Total: | 2227 (2011)[1] |
Gołąb ("pigeon") is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puławy, within Puławy County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 11km (07miles) north-west of Puławy and 560NaN0 north-west of the regional capital Lublin.[2]
The first historical mention of the town was in the 12th century. The parish church was constructed between 1628 and 1636, and the Loreto House was constructed between 1634 and 1638.
An invading Swedish army routed a Polish army in the Battle of Gołąb 1656.
The Gołąbska Confederation was found on the 16 October 1672.
In 1939, Germans bombed the airport and a nearby lake. A dozen or so women who were washing clothes and bedding by the lake, were mistakenly recognised by paratroopers and died.