Murowana Goślina ([murɔˈvana ɡɔˈɕlʲina]; German: Murowana-Goslin) is a town in Poznań County in western Poland,[1] with 10,336 inhabitants (2009).

It lies approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the major city of Poznań, on the main road and railway line to Wągrowiec.

The Trojanka stream flows through northern and western parts of the village, reaching the river Warta a few kilometres to the west.

The village is divided into two main parts – the older part of the village to the north, centred on the market square and St. James' church, and the modern estate of Zielone Wzgórza to the south, consisting mainly of blocks of flats and houses built since 1983.

In mediaeval times the settlement was called Górka (meaning "hill") – this name appears in chronicles from the reigns of Mieszko I and Bolesław the Brave in the late 10th and early 11th centuries.

The later name Goślina was derived from the personal name Gostl (related to Polish gość, "guest"), which referred to a warrior from outside the region who was given the local estates as a reward for service to the state.

In the 13th century a large area on the right bank of the Warta around the Trojanka (then called Wełnianka) belonged to the Gostl family, and Murowana Goślina developed along a new trading route leading northwards from Poznań to Nakło.

The municipal buildings, library and many shops are situated on or close to the old marketplace in the village centre, which also contains St. James' church (built 1605).

The region is popular with holiday-makers and day-trippers, and there are a large number of summer vacation properties in the area.

The area lay on the ancient route from the early Polish capital Gniezno to western Pomerania via a crossing of the Warta at Radzim (near today's Starczanowo).

In that year there is a reference to the wójt Andrzej of Górka, and in 1391 there is also mentioned a local resident called Staszek.

From 1593 it was owned by Jan Rozdrażewski, who granted privileges and a coat of arms – a blue shield with three rosettes on a silver diagonal stripe (an angel was added in the 18th century).

In 1785 king Stanisław August granted the village the right to hold fairs, and clothiers settled there.

A synagogue had been built in the early 19th century, in the Jewish quarter of the village to the north of the market square, along ul.

In the Spring of Nations events of 1848, a rebel force consisting of peasants and villagers blocked communications with northern Greater Poland.

In 1905 the railway line to Poznań, passing through Murowana Goślina, was opened (by 1908 it extended northwards to Wągrowiec).

Wodna was called Piła Miasto, and the mansion – which before the First World War was used as a customs office – appeared on some postcards as Schloss Pila).

In 1907 the soldiers of the German imperial army appeared in the village and on the market square while carrying out manoeuvres in the Poznań area.

The village's development was slowed by the First World War and the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–1919, in which many inhabitants were involved.

The retreating Germans burnt down the railway station, the interwar post office at the junction of ul.

Its population in 1945 was 2,482 (compared with 2,700 in 1939); this increased to 4,399 by 1975, and this figure would more than double in subsequent years, particularly due to the building of the Zielone Wzgórza estate.

With the factory experiencing financial difficulties, the housing cooperative separated from the company in 1992, under the name Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa "Zielone Wzgórza".

Szkolna north of the old village centre, and the second on Zielone Wzgórza (opened 1992, patron Henryk Sienkiewicz).

Regular bus lines run from Przebędowo on the northern edge of the village, through central Murowana Goślina and the Zielone Wzgórza estate to Poznań.

Murowana Goślina is twinned with the village of Hemmingen in Lower Saxony, Germany, and also has a partnership arrangement with Ochotnica Dolna in southern Poland.