Garz / Rügen

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Garz / Rügen
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Coordinates: 54 ° 19 '  N , 13 ° 21'  E

Basic data
State : Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County : Western Pomerania-Ruegen
Office : Mountains on Rügen
Height : 14 m above sea level NHN
Area : 65.87 km 2
Residents: 2185 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 33 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 18574
Primaries : 03838, 038304, 038307
License plate : VR, GMN, NVP, RDG, RÜG
Community key : 13 0 73 027
Office administration address: Markt 5–6
18528 Bergen on Rügen
Website : www.stadt-garz-ruegen.de
Mayor : Sebastian Koesling ( CDU )
Location of the city of Garz / Rügen in the Vorpommern-Rügen district
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Beach of the Greifswalder Bodden at Palmer Ort near Grabow
Tower of the St. Petri Church
Birthplace of Ernst Moritz Arndt in Groß Schoritz
Ernst Moritz Arndt Museum

Garz / Rügen is a country town in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The city is administered by the office of Bergen auf Rügen , based in the city ​​of the same name ; Garz is a basic center for its surroundings .

geography

Geographical location

Garz is located in the south of the island of Rügen , about five kilometers from the coast. The surrounding area is undulating, the highest point is the Kanonenberg at 34 m above sea level. NHN . The distance to Stralsund is 22 kilometers, to Bergen on Rügen 12 kilometers. The Zudar peninsula has been part of the city since 2004 . South of Garz is Garzer See, one of the few larger lakes on the island of Rügen.

City structure

The following districts belong to the city of Garz / Rügen:

  • Bidding guest
  • Boo
  • Dumsevitz
  • Fossberg
  • Freudenberg
  • Garz / Rügen
  • Glewitz
  • Grabow
  • Kowall
  • Loose seat
  • Maltzien
  • Palmer place
  • Poltenbusch
  • Poppelvitz
  • rose Garden
  • Joke
  • Silmenitz
  • Smitershagen
  • Swine
  • Tangnitz
  • Wendorf
  • Zicker
  • Zudar

history

Garz

Surname

A hard-fought Slavic castle was named Karennz , Kerentia or Charenza in 1168 and 1234 , respectively. In 1327 there was still Chertz in Ruya (Rügen) in a town seal . The name Garz but comes rather from the Slavic word gard which means' castle (as in Stargard), which as Gardec then small castle called or fortified place .

Older story

At the turn of the ages, the residents of Rügen were from the East Germanic Rugier tribe , followed by the West Slavic Rans from the 7th century . In the 11th / 12th In the 19th century there was a Slavic castle complex with a rampart and settlement as the royal seat. The castle wall , which is well preserved to this day , was identified by the historiography of the 19th and 20th centuries with the legendary prince's seat Charenza . More recent interdisciplinary research results from the years 2004 and 2005 have shown that the castle wall near Venz (between Gingst and Trent on the Neuendorfer Wiek) was much more likely to be the prince and temple castle of Charenza , which was built on June 16, 1168 - one day later the conquest of the temple castle at Cape Arkona  - the Danish King Waldemar I and his military leader Bishop Absalon von Roeskilde was handed over without a fight after previous negotiations.

In 1168 the Christian Danes destroyed the castle complex in Garz as well as the Svantovite temple in the castle wall at Cape Arkona . German colonists began to settle in 1240, and the village of Garz emerged. Rügen Prince Wizlaw III. gave Garz city ​​rights (civitatis Gartz) . The small commune was first mentioned in 1316 and 1319. Although 1319 citizens and councilors of the "Novae civitatis" (= the new city) Garz are documented, the exact date of the granting of city rights is still unknown. This makes it the oldest city on the island of Rügen. The town church of St. Petri, built in the 14th century, initially belonged to the Danish diocese of Roskilde .

In 1325 Rügen and Garz became part of Pomerania , in 1478 Rügen was united with Pomerania, and after the Thirty Years War , Garz became part of Sweden in 1648 through the Peace of Westphalia . In 1815 the Congress of Vienna made Garz a Prussian city.

Around 1648 the steeple of the church was destroyed in a storm and replaced by today's flat tower. In 1765, a large city fire destroyed many houses. The older, mostly eaves-standing town houses were built afterwards.

Recent history

In 1930, the diabetologist Gerhardt Katsch founded the first home for the clinical and social medical care of diabetics in Germany in Garz. After the facility moved to Karlsburg in Western Pomerania, a branch of the Karlsburg Institute in Garz remained as a holiday camp for caring for diabetic children during the summer vacation.

The town center of Garz has been completely renovated since 1991 as part of urban development funding. Deutsche Telekom has been operating a transmitter near Garz since 1993.

From 1818 to 1947 Garz was part of the Rügen district in the Prussian province of Pomerania , then until 1952 in the state of Mecklenburg . From 1952 to 1955 the city was in the Putbus district of the newly established GDR district of Rostock . The Kreis Bergen was on 1 January 1956 with the county mountains to Rügen county united. From 1956 to 2011 Garz belonged to the Rügen district in the Rostock district, and from 1990 to 2011 to the Rügen district in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Since the district reform in 2011 , the city has been in the Vorpommern-Rügen district .

Districts

Fossberg

During the GDR era, a children's holiday camp was built and operated in the Fossberg district , which was abandoned to decay after 1990.

Great Schoritz

Groß Schoritz was first mentioned in a document in 1318.

Karnitz

The estate was owned by the von Kahlden family until the end of the 16th century and since the middle of the 18th century in the possession of the old von Usedom family who lived on Rügen . In 1834/35 the Karnitz manor house was built as a hunting lodge for Guido von Usedom . The manor was set up away from the palace and park. After Guido von Usedom's death, his daughter Hildegard inherited the property.

The estate became Walzengut, it had constantly changing owners. Owners were from Ruperti (from 1868) and Freiherr von Vietinghoff (from 1930). After 1945 the castle was used as a residence and restaurant. After 1991 it is used as a residential, holiday and commercial building.

Koldevitz

Koldevitz appears in documents in 1314 as Colovitze and 1318 as Koldevitze .

Loose seat

The Losentitz estate was owned by the von Berglasen families (16th century), the Swedish Count Axel von Löwen (until 1767) and von Dyke (until 1935). Major General Moritz von Dyke had the 6 hectare landscape park laid out from 1794 to 1811. The two-storey manor house was built around 1892.

Maltzien

The place was first mentioned in 1314 as Maltzin . From the 16th to the end of the 18th century at the latest, the von Kahlden family estate was located here . The manor house from the second half of the 19th century with its striking stepped gables was used as a school, residential and commercial building after 1945.

Population development

year Residents
1990 1919
1995 1815
2000 1738
2005 2605
2010 2343
year Residents
2015 2213
2016 2220
2017 2201
2018 2194
2019 2185

Status: December 31 of the respective year

The strong increase in the number of inhabitants in 2005 is due to incorporations.

Incorporations

On January 1, 2001, Groß Schoritz and on June 13, 2004 Zudar on the peninsula of the same name were incorporated into the city of Garz / Rügen.

politics

City council

The city council of Garz has 12 members. Since the local elections in 2019, it has been composed as follows:

Party / list Seats
CDU 7th
Free community of voters Garz 5

mayor

  • 1990–1991: Walter Schlör (CDU)
  • 1991–1994: Klaus Koesling (CDU)
  • 1994–1995: Olaf Pfäffle (SPD)
  • 1995–2009: Klaus Meißner (SPD)
  • 2009–2019: Gitta Gohla (Free Association of Voters)
  • since 2019: Sebastian Koesling (CDU)

Koesling was elected in the mayoral election on June 16, 2019 with 50.4% of the valid votes.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was registered under the number 34 of the coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Blazon : “In blue a silver castle with a tinned round wall, open golden gate wings and raised golden portcullis, two lower side towers with red domed roofs, knobs and one daylighted window each as well as a higher, middle uncovered tower with a daylighted window on which a golden mast stands with a three-legged flag, which shows an upright red griffin in the silver field. "

The coat of arms was redrawn in 1994 by Gerhard Koggelmann from Sagard.

flag

The city flag alternately shows the colors blue - white - blue in three vertical stripes. The blue stripes each take up a quarter, the white central stripe takes up two quarters of the flag's length. The median is covered with the city coat of arms, whereby the height of the coat of arms is related to the height of the flag as 3: 5. The height and length of the flag are related to each other like 2: 3.

Town twinning

The twin town of Norderney is located in East Frisia and is one of the East Frisian Islands that are in front of the state of Lower Saxony . The twinning of the two cities was decided immediately after the reunification of Germany in 1990.

Attractions

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Garz / Rügen

Garz

  • Evangelical town church St. Petri , built in the middle of the 14th century in Gothic style from bricks. The two eastern yokes did not emerge until the 15th and 16th centuries. Around 1648 the pointed tower was destroyed in a storm and replaced by today's flat tower.
  • Town houses, mostly eaves, exclusively from the time after the great city fire of 1765 (Lindenstrasse 1–2 and 4, rectory, Wendenstrasse 17, Lange Strasse 13)
  • Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Museum, dedicated to the poet who was born in what is now the Groß Schoritz district
  • Slavic rampart Garz, three temples were destroyed in 1168, is one of the best preserved in Germany

Great Schoritz

Karnitz

Loose seat

  • Losentitz manor from around 1892

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

Deutsche Telekom AG has been operating a transmission system for VHF, TV and radio relay near Garz since 1993 . A 190 m high, guyed steel lattice mast is used as the antenna carrier ( see also: radio transmission systems on Rügen ). The system is the basic network transmitter for the Rügen and Stralsund area. The programs of the NDR and private broadcasters are broadcast. The DVB-T - Bouquets of public service broadcasters are emitted from here. On the outskirts of Karnitz lies Rügen's largest golf course with a track length of over 6000 m.

traffic

  • The city has a well-developed network of cycle paths with a length of approx. 43 km.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities associated with Garz

literature

  • Gustav Kratz : The cities of the province of Pomerania - an outline of their history, mostly according to documents . Berlin 1865, pp. 154–156 ( full text ).
  • Herbert Ewe : Rügen . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1977.
  • City of Garz / Rügen and Heimatverband Garz / Rügen (ed.): 700 years of the city of Garz / Rügen: 1319-2019 . Edition Pommern, Elmenhorst / Vorpommern 2019. ISBN 9783-939680512 .

Web links

Commons : Garz / Rügen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistisches Amt MV - population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2019 (XLS file) (official population figures in the update of the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ↑ Regional Spatial Development Program Vorpommern (RREP) 2010 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. - Central local structure with regional, medium and basic centers, accessed on July 12, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rpv-vorpommern.de
  3. ↑ Main statute of the city of Garz / Rügen, § 2 (PDF; 94 kB)
  4. ^ Kratzke, Reimann, Ruchhöft: Garz and Rugendahl on Rügen in the Middle Ages. In: Baltic Studies 2004 - Pomeranian Yearbooks for National History. New series vol. 90, Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2005, pp. 25–52, ISBN 3-937719-02-4
  5. ^ Sven Wichert: Observations on Karentia on Rügen in the Middle Ages. In: Baltic Studies 2005 - Pomeranian Yearbooks for National History. New series Vol. 91, Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2006, pp. 31–38, ISBN 3-937719-35-0
  6. ^ Herbert Ewe: Rügen. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1977, p. 118.
  7. ↑ Facebook entry
  8. ^ Hubertus Neuschäffer: Western Pomerania's castles and mansions. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1993, p. 90, ISBN 3-88042-636-8 .
  9. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
  10. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
  11. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2004
  12. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
  13. ^ Garz "first" town on Rügen. In: Garzer Stadtblatt , April / May 2010, p. 1.
  14. ^ Result of the mayoral election on June 16, 2019