Goritz

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Göritz (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 25 '  N , 13 ° 55'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Uckermark
Office :	Bruessow (Uckermark)
Height :	37 m above sea level NHN
Area :	25.56 km 2
Residents:	822 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	32 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17291
Area code :	039851
License plate :	UM, ANG, PZ, SDT, TP
Community key :	12 0 73 216
Office administration address:	Prenzlauer Strasse 8 17326 Brüssow
Website :	www.amt-bruessow.de
Mayor :	Daniel Pohl
Location of the municipality of Göritz in the district of Uckermark

Göritz is an official municipality in the extreme north of the Uckermark district in Brandenburg . It is administered by the Office Brüssow (Uckermark) based in the city of Brüssow .

geography

The municipality of Göritz is located on the flat slope of a terminal moraine that stretches in north-south direction on the east bank of the Ucker . The northern neighboring municipality of Nieden belongs to the federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , while the neighboring town to the south is a part of the district town of Prenzlau .

Community structure

Göritz includes the inhabited districts of Göritz, Malchow and Tornow as well as the expansion of the residential area.

history

The current municipality of Göritz was already in the Stone Age around 2000 BC. Settled. A remnant from the subsequent Bronze Age , a so-called bowl stone , can be found in the hallway "Hopps Qual" near Gootskamp. After the turn of the times , the Teutons first settled in the area , as evidenced by finds of pottery shards, which the Slavs took their place in the 6th and 7th centuries . The first church was built around 1250, before Göritz was first mentioned on June 11, 1346.

Rittergut Göritz (19th century), residence of the Lords of Wedel

From the 12th to the 15th century, the place came under German influence. After the dispute between Pomeranians, Brandenburgers and Mecklenburgers over the ownership of the Uckermark, a contract was signed between Pomeranian dukes and Brandenburg margraves near Göritz in 1440 . During the disputes about the Uckermark, more and more German residents moved to the area around Göritz, which developed in its current basic structures as a street and anger village . In the centuries that followed, the Göritz estates frequently changed hands before the nobility gained increasing influence. During the Thirty Years' War , the town was temporarily devastated .

In the GDR, the first LPG was established in Göritz in 1952 , followed by another in 1960.

Administrative history

Göritz belonged to the Prenzlau district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg since 1817 and to the Prenzlau district in the GDR district of Neubrandenburg from 1952 . The community has been in the Brandenburg district of Uckermark since 1993.

The area was changed in 1928 when the village of Malchow was incorporated into the municipality of Göritz, and when Tornow was incorporated in 1982.

Göritz belonged to the Prenzlau-Land office from 1992 to 2001 and changed to the Brüssow office (Uckermark) with effect from November 1, 2001 .

Population development

year Residents 1875 654 1890 565 1910 695 1925 638 1933 783 1939 695 1946 1 170 1950 1 187

year Residents 1964 856 1971 837 1981 822 1985 947 1989 951 1990 943 1991 947 1992 934 1993 925 1994 923

year Residents 1995 932 1996 932 1997 944 1998 954 1999 944 2000 928 2001 927 2002 903 2003 882 2004 856

year Residents 2005 836 2006 836 2007 844 2008 831 2009 822 2010 804 2011 796 2012 781 2013 796 2014 794

year Residents 2015 780 2016 793 2017 805 2018 816 2019 822

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

The municipal council of Göritz consists of eight municipal representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters	Seats
Single applicant Dajana Grundmann	1
Individual applicant: Christoph Ninnemann	1
Individual applicant Heiko Sonnenberg	1
Individual applicant Klaus-Dieter Herholz	1
The left	1
Single applicant Marco Koch	1
Single applicant Enrico Riechert	1
Göritz Fire Brigade voter group	1

Daniel Pohl ran for both community representative and mayor. Since he accepted the election as mayor, his seat in the municipal council remains vacant according to § 60 (3) of the Brandenburg Local Election Act.

His share of the vote in the election of the municipal council corresponded to two seats. Therefore, according to § 48 (6) of the Brandenburg Local Election Act, another seat in the municipal council remains vacant.

mayor

• 1998–2014: Karla Schmidt
• since 2014: Daniel Pohl

In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Pohl was elected unopposed candidate with 82.7% of the valid votes for a term of five years.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on January 9, 1997.

Blazon : “Square of black and silver; Field 2: a black comb-wheel, the four spokes of which are covered by a man's torso with a gold-belted, black-and-red split coat and a wide-brimmed hat with a golden hat string, field 3: three black-and-red split linden leaves connected by golden stems (2: 1 ). "

Attractions

The list of monuments in Göritz includes the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

Malchow village church

The Malchow village church is an early Gothic stone church with a straight choir and a saddle roof . It originated in the second half of the 13th century. In 1731 the parish added the tower. The last service was celebrated in 1958 , after which the church stood empty. In 2004 there was an emergency backup because the structure threatened to collapse. Some of the furnishings were brought to the Göritz Church , other furnishings such as a baptismal angel were deposited in the attic of a rectory. In the years 2010 to 2012, extensive renovation work took place with the help of the German Foundation for Monument Protection . Frescoes were exposed on the north and south sides of the nave .

traffic

Göritz is on federal highway 109 between Prenzlau and Pasewalk .

The nearest train station is Nechlin (part of the Uckerland community ) on the Berlin – Angermünde – Stralsund line .

Personalities

• Carl Heinrich von Wedel (1712–1782), Prussian lieutenant general and minister of war, born in Göritz

Web links

Commons : Göritz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Göritz in the RBB program Landschleicher on June 25, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Municipality of Göritz
3. ↑ Change of Office Brüssow (Uckermark) Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of October 5, 2001. Official Gazette for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 12, 2001, Number 43, Potsdam, October 24, 2001, p. 672 PDF
4. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Uckermark . Pp. 18-21
5. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
6. ^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
7. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
8. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 60
9. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 48
10. ↑ Results of the local elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the district of Uckermark ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 25, 2014
12. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
13. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
14. ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
15. ^ Village church in Malchow , Uckermark churches from AZ, accessed on August 25, 2014.
16. ^ Project overview , website of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, accessed on August 25, 2014.
17. ↑ Christiane Rossner: With faith and music. Monuments 25 (2010), 34–35