Gostomia ()Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortschaften jenseits von Oder und Neiße by M. Kaemmerer is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wałcz, within Wałcz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately south of Wałcz and east of the regional capital Szczecin.
History
Older names entail Arnsfeld (1337), Gostomia (1590), Arensfeld (1636), and modern Polish Arnopol. Arnsfelde is German, derived from the name Arnoldsfelde, potentially being founded by the knight Arnold von der Goltz, like the castles Drawsko Pomorskie, Draheim and Deutsch Krone. Gostomia refers back to the Starost Hieronymus Gostómski, who (re-)founded the settlement 1590. 1641 only catholics lived here, frequenting a wooden church.Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Schmitt. Geschichte des Deutsch Croner Kreises. Lambeck, Thorn 1867, p. 218 (Google Books).
By the eighteenth century catholic church hamlet Arnsfelde had been assigned to the Neuhof district.Johann Friedrich Goldbeck: Volständige Topographie des Königreichs Preussen. Zweiter Theil welcher die Topographie von West-Preussen enthält. Marienwerder 1789, p. 118, Nr. 3.) (Google Books).
1945, Arnsfelde belonged to district Deutsch Krone within Grenzmark Posen-Westpreußen off the prussion Pommern province within the German Reich.
In February 1945, Arnsfelde was occupied by the Red Army. After cessation of the battles, it was, among the rest of Hinterpommern assigned to the Republic of Poland (1944-1952) by the sowjet occupation administration. In the following years, ethnic Poles (people) moved here, and the former Arnsfelde was now administrated as Gostomia. German residents were displaced during the post-war years.
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