Garz (Havelberg)

Garz Hanseatic city of Havelberg Coordinates: 52 ° 45 ′ 10 ″  N , 12 ° 12 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	26 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.89 km²
Residents :	144  (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	18 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2005
Postal code :	39539
Area code :	039382
Location in Saxony-Anhalt
Houses of Garz in the center with the village church, seen from the Havel

Garz is a village and part of the Hanseatic city of Havelberg in the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The place is located 12 km south of the Hanseatic city of Havelberg in the Elbe-Havel angle and was incorporated in 2005.

history

origin

Garz emerged as a Slavic round village and has a half-timbered church with an octagonal floor plan, which was built at the beginning of the 17th century and is a listed building . Hüfner , farmers and fishermen settled around the central village square and built their brick living quarters and stables in the four-sided style.

By the middle of the 20th century

At the end of the 19th century, a major fire destroyed most of the buildings. But the residents rebuilt it. At the beginning of the 20th century, the construction of a lock near the place led to an improvement in traffic possibilities and a reduction in the risk of flooding. A homestead was laid out for the lock keeper's family. Freight transport and passenger shipping created some jobs. In this context, the place also received a port .

1950 to 1993

In the period from January 1, 1950 to October 14, 1993, Garz was a district of Warnau and became an independent municipality again after the political change. This then belonged to the administrative community Elbe-Havel-Land in the district of Stendal . When it was incorporated into Havelberg on January 1, 2005, Garz lost its political independence.

During the GDR era, the village was home to the Otto Lilienthal children's holiday camp (address: expansion lock 1), which VEB Elektronikhandel Berlin maintained for the children of its employees. Outside the school holidays, the facility served as a training center. The camp consisted of the historic brick house of the lock keeper, a newly built low-rise building and a roll call area. After the fall of the Wall, a former employee of the company took over the facility and continued it privately for a few years. Then a businesswoman bought the property and has been running a pension there ever since.

After 1990

The village church was renovated thanks to donations from the residents. The residents also gradually renovated their residential buildings. Now the entire village center is a listed building . The Havel cycle path leads through Garz.

politics

administration

A local council , which is subordinate to the city of Havelberg, administers the district. The local and cultural association Garz / Havel e. V. founded, which actively takes care of the tourist and cultural interests of the residents.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver, a red soaring roebuck with three-ended antlers on a green shield base."

The Magdeburg local heraldist Jörg Mantzsch designed the coat of arms in 1995, the responsible municipality approved it without major changes. The colors of the district are red and white.

Culture and sights

Church in Garz near Havelberg

The village church is a half-timbered building from 1688 with an attached vestibule. In the church there is a Lütkemüller organ from 1871.

Economy and culture

The main source of income for the place is tourism , especially in connection with the Havel and the Elbe river landscape biosphere reserve . The local and cultural association regularly organizes festivals with the residents such as a spring festival, a summer festival, a potato festival , fish meals by the fire, handicraft afternoons for children or a Christmas market with a cultural program in the church.

traffic

Regular buses and on-call buses run by Regionalverkehr Westsachsen (RVW) under the brand name stendalbus .

Web links

Commons : Garz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Private website with photos from Garz ( Memento from February 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Garz in the historical directory of the association for computer genealogy
• Private website about Garz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures . Retrieved March 12, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Main statutes of the Hanseatic city of Havelberg . October 9, 2014, § 1 Name, Designation and § 14 Local Constitution, p. 1 and 5 ( havelberg.de [PDF; 54 kB ; accessed on February 20, 2019]).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Brief description of Garz at www.havelberg.de , accessed on October 22, 2016.
4. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2005
5. ↑ Facebook entry
6. ↑ The church on the website of the local and cultural association Garz / Havel eV , accessed on August 16, 2020