WOP post in Gościce, Border protection post in Gościce, Poland

The WOP post in Gościce is a military border station that once monitored the frontier between Poland and Czechoslovakia. The facility included sleeping quarters for around 56 soldiers, administrative offices, and observation equipment positioned to watch the assigned border section.

The station was established in 1945 as the 228th WOP post under the 49th command sector based in Paczków. It received a new designation as the 237th post in 1954.

The post's guards coordinated with the Czechoslovak border unit at Javorník and, from 1991, with the Czech foreign police (RCPP). In winter, the snow track along the main approach was checked at least twice a day, elsewhere once. In late June and early July 1956, during the Poznań protests, patrols found balloons carrying leaflets attached to them lying on the ground near the border line.

The former post can be viewed as a residential building that retains much of its original military structure. Access is limited since the property is now privately owned, making external observation the primary way to see its layout.

The post's last years were shaped by Poland's EU accession: from 2000 the border service merged green-border patrols and crossing checks, and on 2 January 2003 the Gościce unit was dissolved. Its stretch of frontier passed to the border checkpoint in Paczków, and the building went to the commune for flats.