Gahro

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Gahro
Crinitz parish
Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 16 ″  N , 13 ° 43 ′ 28 ″  E
Height : 127 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.68 km²
Residents : 168  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 14 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : October 26, 2003
Postal code : 03246
Area code : 035324
Gahro village church
Gahro village church

Gahro ( Lower Sorbian Gary ) is a district of the municipality of Crinitz in the northeast of the Elbe-Elster district in Brandenburg . The place belongs to the Amt Kleine Elster (Niederlausitz) and was an independent municipality until October 26, 2003.

location

Gahro is located in Niederlausitz and is part of the Niederlausitzer Landücken nature park . The cities of Luckau and Finsterwalde are each about twelve kilometers away as the crow flies. Surrounding villages are the Luckau district of Bergen in the northeast, Crinitz in the east, the district of Babben in the municipality of Massen-Niederlausitz in the southeast, the districts of Bahren , Dabern and Pahlsdorf in the southwest , which belong to the city of Sonnewalde , and the district of Weißack in the northwest, which belongs to the municipality of Heideblick .

Gahro is on Landesstrasse 56 . State road 561 branches off in the village . The federal road 96 (Finsterwalde – Luckau) runs about three kilometers west of the village. The Calau motorway junction on federal motorway 13 is about twelve kilometers northeast of Gahro. The nature reserve Gahroer Buchheide is located north of Gahro .

history

The village of Gahro was first mentioned in 1452 as "Garow". The place name is from the Sorbian "gorěti" for "to burn" and possibly means "place of fire". For 1538 the name "Garo" is mentioned. Ernst Eichler does not rule out a derivation from the Lower Sorbian “gora” for “mountain” (settlement on a mountain). Gahro is a rural village .

Before the Congress of Vienna and the cession of territory of the Kingdom of Saxony to the Kingdom of Prussia , Gahro belonged to Saxony. From 1816 the place belonged to the district of Luckau in the Prussian province of Brandenburg . 1818 Gahro had a total of 1,000 guilders estimate deliver and belonged to the manor Weißack. The church was a branch church , also from Weißack. Gahro was at a junction of the road to Sonnewalde . From 1828 at the latest, Gahro had a school that was also attended by the children of the neighboring villages of Bergen and Stiebsdorf .

In 1840 Gahro had 36 residential buildings with 224 inhabitants according to the topographical-statistical overview of the administrative district of Frankfurt adO . A forester's house , a sheep farm and a brickyard belonged to the village . By 1864, the number of inhabitants in the village of Gahro sank to 175 inhabitants in 27 buildings, but there were also 12 buildings and 79 inhabitants in the Pechhütte belonging to the village (today's residential area of Gahroer Pechhütte ). In addition to the forester's house, sheep farm and brickworks, there were also four potteries .

Until 1815 Gahro belonged to the Luckau district , which was converted into the Luckau district after the territorial changes at the Congress of Vienna. After the Second World War , Gahro was initially in the Soviet occupation zone and then in the GDR . During the district reform carried out in the GDR on July 25, 1952, the community was incorporated into the Finsterwalde district in the Cottbus district. After the reunification , the Finsterwalde district was renamed the Finsterwalde district and finally dissolved, the Gahro community was assigned to the Elbe-Elster district and joined the Kleine Elster (Niederlausitz) office . On October 26, 2003, the community of Gahro was incorporated into Crinitz .

Attractions

  • The Protestant village church of St. Johannes is a stone church that was built in the 14th century. The hall building has a wooden bell tower from the 18th century, which was renovated in the 19th century. The windows and portals of the church were enlarged in a baroque style with round arches. Inside, the church has a wooden ceiling and a three-sided gallery .
  • In front of the church there is a memorial in honor of those who fell from the village during the First World War from 1919. Both the church and the memorial for the fallen are listed .

Population development

Population development in Gahro from 1875 to 2002
year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 243 1939 226 1981 227
1890 257 1946 407 1985 229
1910 244 1950 387 1989 241
1925 234 1964 299 1995 223
1933 226 1971 295 2002 199

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Community and district directory of the state of Brandenburg. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB), accessed on June 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin. Age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2005, p. 60 .
  3. ↑ Ernst Eichler: The place names of Niederlausitz. 1st edition. Verlag VEB Domowina, Bautzen 1975, p. 48.
  4. ↑ August Schumann: Complete state, post and newspaper encyclopedia from Saxony, vol. 1. Friedrichswalde to Herlachgrün. Gebr. Schumann, Zwickau 1816 Online at Google Books , p. 32
  5. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Frankfurt ad O. Gustav Harnecker's bookstore, Frankfurt a. O. 1844 Online at Google Books , p. 153.
  6. ↑ Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Frankfurt a. O. Verlag von Gustav Harnecker u. Co., 1867 Online at Google Books , p. 176.
  7. ^ Gerhard Vinken, Barbara Rimpel et al. (Arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Brandenburg. 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , page 368.
  8. ^ Historical register of the state of Brandenburg from 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 KB) Elbe-Elster district. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on August 14, 2018 .