Gerdshagen

This article deals with the Brandenburg community of Gerdshagen. Districts of the Mecklenburg communities Lohmen and Satow also bear the name Gerdshagen.

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 15 '  N , 12 ° 12'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Prignitz
Office :	Meyenburg
Height :	87 m above sea level NHN
Area :	23 km 2
Residents:	502 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	22 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	16928
Area code :	033986
License plate :	PR
Community key :	12 0 70 096
Community structure:	3 parts of the community
Office administration address:	Freyensteiner Strasse 42 16945 Meyenburg
Mayor :	Robert Gemmel
Location of the municipality of Gerdshagen in the Prignitz district

Gerdshagen is a municipality in the Meyenburg district ( Prignitz district ) in Brandenburg (Germany).

geography

The Kümmernitz , one of the tributaries of the Dömnitz, flows through Gerdshagen . By damming this stream, the Preddöhl reservoir was created between the communities of Gerdshagen and Preddöhl in the 1990s .

Community structure

The place is next to Gerdshagen from local parts Giesenhagen (with living space New Giesenhagen) Rapshagen and Struck.

history

Harvest kindergarten of the LPG in Gerdshagen, 1983

Gerdshagen belonged to the Ostprignitz district in the province of Brandenburg since 1817 and to the Pritzwalk district in the GDR district of Potsdam from 1952 . The community has been in the Brandenburg district of Prignitz since 1993.

In 1925 Giesenhagen and in 1974 Rapshagen were incorporated into Gerdshagen.

With the second ordinance on the abolition of exclaves in the state of Brandenburg on July 1, 2000, the Struck district, which had previously belonged to Meyenburg , and the Schwarze Kampe district, which belonged to Halenbeck, were incorporated into Gerdshagen.

Population development

year Residents 1875 111 1890 103 1910 149 1925 295 1933 262 1939 237 1946 534 1950 543

year Residents 1964 537 1971 553 1981 642 1985 612 1989 628 1990 626 1991 603 1992 610 1993 632 1994 654

year Residents 1995 669 1996 670 1997 657 1998 658 1999 658 2000 651 2001 648 2002 631 2003 635 2004 629

year Residents 2005 612 2006 589 2007 584 2008 573 2009 547 2010 535 2011 537 2012 540 2013 530 2014 520

year Residents 2015 505 2016 499 2017 493 2018 492 2019 502

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

The community council of Gerdshagen consists of eight community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Voter group	Seats
Free community of voters Gerdshagen	8th

mayor

• 1998–2003: Gottfried Spitzner
• 2003-2008: Thomas Zellmer
• 2008–2019: Brunhilde Müller
• since 2019: Robert Gemmel

Gemmel was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with no opposing candidate with 80.8% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

Partnerships

A partnership with the community of Schieren in Schleswig-Holstein has existed since October 3, 1990 .

Attractions

The list of monuments in Gerdshagen includes the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the State of Brandenburg.

traffic

Gerdshagen is on the federal highway 103 between Meyenburg and Pritzwalk . The federal motorway 24 Berlin-Hamburg with the Meyenburg junction runs through the municipality.

The nearest train station is Bruges (Prign) on the Neustadt – Meyenburg railway line . It is served by the regional train line RB 74 Pritzwalk –Meyenburg.

literature

• Historical Gazetteer Brandenburg - Part 1 - Prignitz - A-M . Modifications made by Lieselott Enders . In: Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Publications of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (State Archive Potsdam) - Volume 3 . Founded by Friedrich Beck . Publishing house Klaus-D. Becker, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-88372-032-6 , pp. 247 ff .

Web links

Commons : Gerdshagen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Gerdshagen in the series "Landschleicher" of the Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg on January 31, 1999

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 ).
2. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Gerdshagen municipality
3. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Prignitz district . P. 34
4. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Prignitz district . Pp. 14-17
5. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
6. ^ 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)
7. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
8. ↑ Results of the local elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the district of Prignitz ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2018 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. 
9. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 31
10. ↑ Local elections in the state of Brandenburg on September 28, 2008. Mayoral elections , p. 11
11. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
12. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019