Gozdowice

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Gozdowice
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Gozdowice (Poland)
Gozdowice
Gozdowice
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : West Pomerania
Powiat : Gryfino
Gmina : Mieszkowice
Geographic location : 52 ° 46 ′  N , 14 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  N , 14 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents : 115 (Dec. 31, 2004)
Postal code : 74-505
Telephone code : (+48) 91
License plate : ZGR
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Szczecin-Goleniów
administration
Website : www.gozdowice.pl



Gozdowice (German Güstebiese , formerly also Alt-Güstebüse ) is a village with 115 inhabitants (December 31, 2004) in the municipality of Mieszkowice ( Bärwalde in der Neumark ) in the Gryfiński powiat ( Greifenhagener Kreis ) in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Village church, until 1946 of the Protestant community of Güstebiese

Geographical location

The place is in the Neumark on the right bank of the Oder , about ten kilometers west of Mieszkowice ( Bärwalde in der Neumark ).

history

The fishing village on the edge of the Oderbruch, owned by the Lords of Güstebiese, was first mentioned in 1337. Later the place in Neumark belonged to the Order of St. John in Grüneberg (Neumark), today a village in the municipality of Cedynia . In 1665 there were 30 fishermen, 16 cottagers and 6 small houses in Güstebiese .

When the Oderbruch was drained in 1753, a new straightened river course - the "New Oder" - was created between Güstebiese and Hohensaaten to throw off the old river bend over Wriezen and Oderberg . On July 2, 1753 , the embankment of the New Oder was pierced.

The land reclaimed by the amelioration was settled and the colonies of Neu-Güstebiese (1755) and Karlsbiese (1756) arose on Güstebieser Fluren west of the Oder.

During the Seven Years' War a ship bridge was built over the Oder, which Friedrich II crossed on August 22, 1758 on the way to the battle of Zorndorf . In 1908 a memorial to this event was erected on the Oder.

The population increased, in 1800 there were 1,000 people living in Güstebiese. The character of the village had changed, with numerous craftsmen, boatmen and foresters living in the village. In 1815 a day and night ferry started operating across the Oder to the Güstebieser Loose, which operated without interruption until 1945. During the 19th century windmills and shipyards were built.

In the middle of the 19th century the road from Bärwalde to Wriezen was built . In the Güstebieser Loose a road house was built, in which the toll was collected and around which a small settlement was built.

In the 20th century, the village on the Oder opened up to tourism and gained recognition as a climatic health resort . A well-known bathing beach was built on the Oder and the tourist association was established in 1912.

In 1933, there was a large festival with around 20,000 guests to commemorate Friedrich II's crossing of the Oder. In 1939 Güstebiese had 1,077 residents, 180 people lived in the Karlsbiese colony. Mayor was Franz Rückheim. The place had a registry office and a post office. The next train stations were Bärwalde and zckerick-Alt Rüdnitz. The responsible district court was Bärwalde / Neumark. The district covered 1382 hectares.

In the last days of the Second World War, the village was in the main battle line of the Oder front. During the fighting that began on February 1, 1945 and lasted until April 14, the village in the Königsberg district suffered severe damage. On April 16, 1945, Polish pioneers built a makeshift bridge to force the Oder as a passage for the troops for the Battle of Berlin.

Ferry across the Oder, with the village in the background

At the end of the Second World War , Güstebiese was occupied by the Red Army . After the end of the war, the village and other areas east of the Oder-Neisse line were placed under Polish administration. The immigration of Polish migrants began, some of whom came from areas east of the Curzon Line that had been conquered by Poland after the First World War . The German town of Güstebiese was renamed Gozdowice . Unless the local residents of the village had fled, they were subsequently evicted by the local Polish administrative authorities .

A memorial for the 1st Polish Army crossing the Oder was built on the site of the monument to Frederick the Great.

The corridors to the left of the river with the colonies of Neu-Güstebiese, Karlsbiese and Güstebieser Loose remained in Germany and are now part of the municipality of Neulewin in the Märkisch-Oderland district as the Güstebieser Loose district .

Since October 20, 2007, after 62 years, a ferry has been operating again across the Oder to the German town of Güstebieser Loose. It operates from April to October, only when the water level is sufficient, and not on Mondays. A motorized paddle steamer is used as the vehicle .

Demographics

Number of inhabitants
year population Remarks
1804 1000 in 103 households (fireplaces)
1840 1751 in 178 residential buildings.
1864 2071 in 202 residential buildings
1867 2144 on December 3rd
1871 2056 on December 1st, including 2054 Evangelicals, one Catholic and one other
1910 1271 on December 1st
1933 1132
1939 1081

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report with a photo of the ferry
  2. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm August Bratring : Description of the entire Mark Brandenburg . Volume 3: Die Neumark Brandenburg , Berlin 1809, p. 116 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Frankfurt ad O. Gustav Harnecker's bookstore, Frankfurt a. O. 1844, p. 97, no. 82 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Frankfurt a. O. Verlag von Gustav Harnecker u. Co., 1867, p. 120, No. 226 (on- line ).
  5. ↑ a b Royal Statistical Bureau: The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . Part II: Province of Brandenburg , Berlin 1873, pp. 120–121, No. 42 ( online ).
  6. ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de .
  7. ↑ a b M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006)

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