Gager
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Gager
community Moenchgut
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| Height : | 4 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 7.81 km² |
| Residents : | 413 (December 31, 2011) |
| Population density : | 53 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 2018 |
| Postal code : | 18586 |
| Area code : | 038308 |
 Port of Gager
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Gager is a district of the community Mönchgut in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ( Germany ). Until 2018, Gager was an independent municipality with the Groß Zicker district .
geography
Gager is located on the Mönchgut peninsula in the southeastern tip of Rügen on the south coast of the Hagenschen Wiek and on the north coast of the Zicker See . These are two bays in the northeast of the Greifswald Bodden . The village borders directly on the ridge of the Zicker Mountains , the highest of which is the Bakenberg (66 m). The mountain is located, as the entire Zickerschen mountains, in the sub-region Zicker the conservation area Mönchgut .
Former parish
The former municipality of Gager had an area of 8.71 km² and 388 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2015). It was administered by the Mönchgut-Granitz office based in the municipality of Baabe . The last mayor was Peter Quilitzsch.
history
The place was part of the Principality of Rügen until 1326 and then the Duchy of Pomerania .
With the Peace of Westphalia of 1648, Rügen and with it the town of Gager became part of Swedish Pomerania . In 1815 the municipality and Western Pomerania came to the Prussian province of Pomerania .
From 1818 Gager belonged to the district or district of Rügen , from 1952 to 1955 to the district of Putbus and then until 1990 to the district of Rügen in the Rostock district . It then became part of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The district of Rügen became part of the Vorpommern-Rügen district in 2011.
On January 1, 2018, Gager merged with Middelhagen and Thiessow to form the new Mönchgut community.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on October 16, 1998 and registered under the number 172 of the coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Blazon : “obliquely square of silver and blue; Field 1: a blue fish turned to the left; Fields 2 and 3: a silver sheep's body, turned to the left in field 2 and to the right in field 3; Field 4: a single-masted blue sports sailboat with full sails, oar and sword. "
The coat of arms was designed by Michael Zapfe from Weimar .
Movie
In 1980 DEFA shot the documentary “The other three seasons”, directed by Kurt Tetzlaff, about the towns of Groß Zicker and Gager and the life of the villagers. The town's mayor and residents give an insight into their lives. The DEFA fairy tale film “The Blue Light” was filmed in the landscapes around Gager and Groß Zicker in 1975 under the direction of Iris Gusner .
Web links
- Literature about Gager in the state bibliography MV
- Viewpoints on the island of Rügen: Zickersche Mountains / Zickersche Alps. private website: https://www.ruegenmagic.de , accessed on February 14, 2020.
- The three other seasons on YouTube , accessed on February 22, 2020 ( DEFA documentary film from 1980, 34:46 min, publisher: DEFA Foundation ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Müller's Large German Local Book 2012: Complete local dictionary. 33. revised and exp. Ed., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027420-2 , online at Google Books , p. 407
- ↑ From 2018 new community Mönchgut , Ostseezeitung from August 1, 2017, accessed on August 28, 2017
- ↑ Change of area and name approval . Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior and Europe of August 8, 2017 - II 300 - 177-5.13W-2011 / 022-012 - Official Gazette for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania No. 33 of August 21, 2017, p. 564
- ↑ The other three seasons. DEFA Foundation , accessed on December 4, 2019 .
- ↑ The blue light. DEFA Foundation, accessed on February 23, 2020 .