Gartz (Or)
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Coordinates: 53 ° 13 ' N , 14 ° 23' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Brandenburg | |
County : | Uckermark | |
Office : | Gartz (Or) | |
Height : | 6 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 61.88 km 2 | |
Residents: | 2508 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 41 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 16307 | |
Area code : | 033332 | |
License plate : | UM, ANG, PZ, SDT, TP | |
Community key : | 12 0 73 189 | |
City administration address : |
Kleine Klosterstrasse 153 16307 Gartz (Oder) |
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Mayoress : | Inge Ballenthin | |
Location of the city of Gartz (Oder) in the Uckermark district | ||
Gartz (Oder) is a country town in the Brandenburg district of Uckermark and the administrative seat of the Gartz (Oder) office . It belongs to the agglomeration of Szczecin .
geography
The city of Gartz (Oder) is located in the middle of a terminal moraine landscape in the Lower Oder Valley National Park, 30 kilometers south of Stettin. Six kilometers south of Gartz, the Oder divides into two arms, the Westoder and the Eastoder . The Westoder flows directly past the eastern city limits and forms the state border with the Republic of Poland . In Gartz the Salveybach flows into the Westoder. The district of Friedrichsthal is the northern end point of the Hohensaaten-Friedrichsthaler waterway , which runs parallel to the Oder.
City structure
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history
Gartz was in the Duchy of Pomerania . First mentioned in 1124, Gartz was granted town charter by Duke Barnim I of Pomerania in 1249 . In 1325 Gartz became a member of the Hanseatic League .
Due to its strategically important location on the Oder, the city was repeatedly exposed to armed conflicts. So she was u. a. Destroyed in the Thirty Years' War in 1630, in the Swedish-Polish War in 1659 and in the Great Northern War in 1713 .
After the Pomeranian ducal house of the Griffins died out in the Thirty Years' War, Gartz became part of Swedish Pomerania . At the end of the Great Northern War, Sweden had to cede southern Western Pomerania to Prussia in the Peace of Stockholm in 1720 . So Gartz came to Prussia, where it belonged to the province of Pomerania until 1945 . From 1818 to 1939 the city belonged to the Randow district and after its dissolution from 1939 to 1945 to the Greifenhagen district . In 1944, the Ostermann ship propeller factory in Cologne relocated part of its production to Gartz, where minesweeper propellers were manufactured. In 1945 the facilities were dismantled by the Soviet occupation forces, only remnants of the reinforced concrete halls have been preserved.
At the end of the Second World War , Gartz was badly destroyed in 1945. The reconstruction has not yet been completed. When the German-Polish border was moved to the Oder due to the provisions of the Potsdam Agreement , Gartz became a border town in 1945.
After 1945, Gartz came with the German remaining part of the former province of Pomerania first to Mecklenburg and belonged to the circle with headquarters in Loecknitz rebuilt rural county Randow . In 1950 the city was reclassified to the state of Brandenburg and became part of the Angermünde district , which after the dissolution of the states in the GDR in 1952 belonged to the newly created district of Frankfurt (Oder) .
Gartz has been part of the newly constituted state of Brandenburg since 1990. On October 1, 1992, Gartz joined forces with 20 other municipalities to jointly handle administrative matters to form the Gartz (Oder) office . With the Brandenburg administrative reform in 1993, the town and office of Gartz became part of the newly formed Uckermark district .
- Incorporations
On December 31, 2002 the places Friedrichsthal, Geesow and Hohenreinkendorf were incorporated.
Population development
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Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census
1730, 1790, 1837
politics
City Council
Gartz's city council consists of 16 members and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:
Party / group of voters | Seats |
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Voting group Free Citizens | 4th |
SPD | 2 |
CDU | 2 |
Voting group Gewerbebund Gartz (Oder) | 2 |
All for Gartz - Hohenreinkendorf list | 2 |
Free parliamentary alliance | 2 |
LEFT | 1 |
Geesow voter community | 1 |
The city council was first convened on August 18, 1809.
mayor
- 1998–2003: Ulrike Siebeke (CDU)
- 2003-2008: Lutz-Uwe Mademann (CDU)
- 2008–2019: Burkhard Fleischmann (SPD)
- since 2019: Inge Ballenthin (Free Parliamentary Alliance)
Ballenthin was elected in the mayoral election on June 16, 2019 with 73.6% of the valid votes for a term of five years.
Administration and courts
The city's administrative business is predominantly carried out via the Gartz (Oder) office , based in Gartz.
The district court responsible for Gartz is in Schwedt / Oder and the responsible regional court in Frankfurt (Oder) in the district of the Brandenburg Higher Regional Court in Brandenburg an der Havel .
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on September 23, 1992.
Blazon : “In silver, a blue knight in armor with a helmet crowned with gold and a closed visor and with 3 green peacock feathers; in his right hand holding a blue, gold-knobbed spear fluttering upwards, a silver banner with a red griffin looking towards the flagpole, with the left leaning on a silver shield with a red griffin; behind the shield a fallen blue sword with a golden hilt. "
Town twinning
Partnership relationships exist with the cities
- Wentorf in Schleswig-Holstein
- Gryfino in West Pomerania (Poland)
Sights and culture
Buildings
- City Church of St. Stephan , in the 13th / 14th centuries It was built in the 15th century in the brick Gothic style with the participation of the master builder Hinrich Brunsberg , who is responsible for the choir building. After the war damage in 1945, only the preserved choir was initially secured. From 1982 to 1987 the transept was rebuilt with the establishment of a community center. The nave was secured as an uncovered ruin and now serves as an atrium . Instead of the baroque dome that was destroyed in 1945, the tower was given a flat tent-like cover.
- Former church of the Heilig-Geist-Hospital (Spittel), built around 1400 in the Gothic style, today used for exhibitions and concerts after extensive restoration
- Medieval city wall with stork tower, powder tower and blue hat. The Szczecin Gate, built in the 13th century, is the last remaining of four city gates.
- Town hall of the city, neo-Gothic brick building, was built from 1900 to 1904 as a district court. The building has served as the town hall since 1953.
- Farm houses from the 18th and 19th centuries in the old town
- Jewish cemetery on Heinrichshofer Strasse
See also: List of architectural monuments in Gartz (Oder) with the monuments entered in the monuments list of the state of Brandenburg
museum
- Agricultural Museum at Stettiner Tor with an exhibition on the history of Gartz from the 18th century to the present day
traffic
- Gartz is located on federal highway 2 between Schwedt and Stettin and on state road L 27 to Casekow . The closest motorway junction is Penkun on the federal motorway 11 ( Berlin- Szczecin).
- The closest train stations are Tantow and Casekow on the Berlin – Stettin railway line . They are served by the regional express line RE 66 Berlin-Lichtenberg - Szczecin Główny and the regional train line RB 66 Angermünde - Szczecin Główny .
- In 1912, the 7.3 km long Tantow – Gartz railway (passenger traffic since March 15, 1913) with Gartz (Oder) station and the Geesow stop was a connection to the Berlin-Szczecin Railway , which was dismantled after the end of the war in 1945.
- In Gartz there is a landing stage for passenger ships on the Oder.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Sleker († 1629), university professor and clergyman, rector of the University of Rostock
- Adam Riccius (1605–1662), legal scholar
- Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf (1708–1758), secret chamberlain and confidante of King Frederick II.
- Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig (1743–1831), mathematician and scientist
- Karl Ludwig von Wuthenau (1767–1821), Prussian major general
- Hermann von Holleben (1804–1878), Prussian infantry general
- Albert von Trossel (1817–1875), Prussian lieutenant general
- Jonathan Paul (1853–1931), Protestant pastor, tent missionary and publicist
- Ernst Faulstich (1863–1925), classical philologist and educator
- Hugo Kaeker (1864–1940), school teacher and writer
- Hans von Abel (1878–1937), district administrator in the Crossen district
- Fritz Grobba (1886–1973), diplomat, representative of the Foreign Office for the Arab countries
Personalities associated with the city
- Christian Albrecht von Dohna (1621–1677), general from Brandenburg, died in Gartz
- Hermann Petrich (1845–1933), superintendent in Gartz
- Marion Michael (1940–2007), stage and film actress, last lived in a farmhouse near the Polish border and died in Gartz
literature
- Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania . Volume 2, Anklam 1865, pp. 1258–1323 ( digitized version )
- Gustav Kratz : The cities of the province of Pomerania - outline of their history, mostly according to documents . Berlin 1865, pp. 145–153, books.google.de
- Festschrift for the 750th anniversary of the city of Gartz (Oder) , City of Gartz (Oder), 1999
- Julius Schladebach: Documented history of the city of Gartz on the Oder . Leipzig 1841, books.google.de
- Julius Schladebach: The founding document of the city of Gartz on the Oder . Berlin 1842, books.google.de
Web links
- Vanja Budde: Gartz in the Uckermark - neighborhood help from Poland. In: Deutschlandfunk broadcast “Dlf-Magazin”. May 16, 2019 (also as mp3 file , 6.1 MB, 6:36 minutes).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 ).
- ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. City of Gartz (Oder)
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
- ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Uckermark . Pp. 18-21
- ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
- ^ 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)
- ↑ Julius Schladebach: Documented history of the city of Gartz on the Oder . Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig, 1841, p. 5 ( Google Books [accessed June 13, 2017]).
- ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
- ↑ Results of the local elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the district of Uckermark ( Memento from April 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 34
- ↑ Local elections in the state of Brandenburg on September 28, 2008. Mayoral elections , p. 12
- ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
- ^ Result of the mayoral election on June 16, 2019
- ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
- ↑ St. Stephen's Church