Gerswalde
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Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ N , 13 ° 46 ′ E |
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| State : | Brandenburg | |
| County : | Uckermark | |
| Office : | Gerswalde | |
| Height : | 52 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 97.06 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 1566 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 16 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 17268 | |
| Area code : | 039887 | |
| License plate : | UM, ANG, PZ, SDT, TP | |
| Community key : | 12 0 73 201 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Village center 14a 17268 Gerswalde |
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| Mayor : | Serious pointer | |
| Location of the municipality of Gerswalde in the Uckermark district | ||
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Gerswalde is an official municipality in the district of Uckermark in the north of Brandenburg (Germany). It is the administrative seat of the office of the same name .
geography
The large community is located in the Uckermark region, rich in forests and lakes, between the cities of Prenzlau and Templin . The municipality extends in the northeast to the Oberuckersee (district Fergitz). The hilly area in the vineyard near the Groß Fredenwalde district reaches a height of 111 m above sea level. NHN . The Gerswalder Staffel named after the place is an ice edge layer from the last Ice Age ( Vistula glaciation ). The small ditches and streams drain to the Oberuckersee and the Ucker respectively .
Gerswalde is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Nordwestuckermark in the north, Oberuckersee in the northeast, Flieth-Stegelitz in the east, Temmen-Ringenwalde in the south, Milmersdorf in the southwest, Templin and Mittenwalde in the west and Boitzenburger Land in the northwest.
Community structure
The municipality of Gerswalde has no districts in the sense of municipal law, i. H. with mayor and / or local advisory board, but only parts of the community and places to live.
- Inhabited parts of the community
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Former, no longer existent living spaces are: Albertinenhof , Kronsfenn and Neutanger in the district of Groß Fredenwalde as well as the Schwemmpfuhl homestead, which is no longer officially designated as a residential space .
history
In the area around Gerswalde, clearing began in the 11th century .
- Gerswalde was first mentioned in 1256 as Gyrswalde on the trade route from Magdeburg to Stettin .
- Herrenstein lies northeast of Templin and was established as a dairy by Otto von Arnim in 1755 . In 1795 the place is mentioned in a document as a tenant. In 1821 it was Vorwerk Herrenstein with about 100 inhabitants, in 1821 there were 146 inhabitants. The old manor house is still preserved today.
- Kaakstedt was first mentioned in 1284 as Kocstede . The city, as the name suggests, comes from Albertus de Cocstede , who lived here. Name researchers suspect a transfer of the name from Cochstedt near Aschersleben . The town's church dates from the 13th century and was expanded to include a brick tower in the 18th century. Originally the tower had an open lantern , which was removed in 1971 due to disrepair; In 1988 a tiled tent roof was erected.
- Willmine was founded in 1765 when Fredenwalde was divided. The name comes from the wife of the owner of the place Kurt Friedrich von Arnim , Johanne Wilhelmine geb. by Dargitz .
- In Fergitz 1701, the 15-year-old maid was Dorothee Elisabeth Tretschlaff executed as a witch. She was the last victim of the witch hunt in Brandenburg . The circumstances of this witch trial were the subject of an investigation report by the court and district judge of the Uckermark, Thomas Böttcher, commissioned by King Friedrich I in Prussia .
The current districts of the municipality belonged to the Templin district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg since 1817 and to the Templin district in the GDR district of Neubrandenburg from 1952 . Since 1993 they have been in the Brandenburg district of Uckermark.
On December 31, 2001, the formerly independent municipalities of Friedenfelde , Gerswalde, Groß Fredenwalde , Kaakstedt and Krohnhorst were merged to form the new municipality of Gerswalde.
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
politics
Community representation
The community council of Gerswalde consists of 12 community representatives 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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| CDU | 3 |
| Voting group active for our village | 2 |
| Citizens' forum for respect and tolerance | 2 |
| The left | 2 |
| Community of voters for the community of Gerswalde | 2 |
| FDP | 1 |
mayor
- 1998–2003: Heinz Pullwitt
- 2003–2008: Oliver Nowatzki
- since 2008: Ernst Zeiger
In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Zeiger was elected unopposed with 69.8% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.
Attractions
The list of monuments in Gerswalde includes the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the State of Brandenburg.
- Gerswalde has a market square with a stone church and a home parlor. Also worth seeing is the restored Gerswalde moated castle , which is now used as a youth home.
- The desert church Berkenlatten is south of Gerswalde near Berkenlatten .
- The Friedenfelde manor is located in the Friedenfelde district .
- In the district of Groß Fredenwalde is probably the southernmost known Middle Slavonic castle complex (the Wallberg) in the German Baltic Sea region. The village still looks like a manor village (field stone church, manor house, school, recently a stable museum) from the time before 1945.
- A Mesolithic cemetery has been excavated on the vineyard near Groß Fredenwalde since 1962 and again from 2012. In 2014, the earliest known child burial was found in Central Europe.
Another architectural landmark was completed in 2013. From an old locksmith's shop from 1987, which was part of the local LPG , the builder and craftsman Gerhard Schütze built a "workshop" for the Schützes joinery with the help of the Berlin architect Thomas Kröger. The house consists of three areas for a "showroom", a living area and a workshop; Due to the unusual architecture and choice of materials, the house was nominated for the Brandenburg Building Culture Prize and received further media coverage.
traffic
Gerswalde is located on the L 24 state roads between the municipality of Boitzenburger Land and the Angermünder district of Greiffenberg as well as the L 242, which connects the core town of Gerswalde with the municipality of Willmine. The closest motorway junction is Pfingstberg on the A 11 Berlin - Stettin .
The VBB bus line 504 connects Gerswalde with Templin and Wilmersdorf and with the local train stations. With the closure of the Templin – Prenzlau railway line and the stop in Mittenwalde, the closest train station is now in Milmersdorf , 12 kilometers away.
Personalities
- Dorothee Elisabeth Tretschlaff (1685–1701), last victim of the witch hunt in Brandenburg, executed in Fergitz
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim (1786–1852), Berlin police chief, died in Gerswalde
- Richard von Arnim (1831–1901), Prussian officer, born in Gerswalde
- Caroline von Heydebrand (1886–1938), anthroposophical educator, died in Gerswalde
- Helga Vowinckel (1930–1986), opponent of nuclear power, was born in Gerswalde
- Marinus Schöberl (1985–2002), murder victim of right-wing extremist violence, lived in Gerswalde
literature
- Lieselott Enders : Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg, Part VIII, Uckermark , Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-7400-0042-2
Web links
- Office Gerswalde
- Gerswalde in the RBB broadcast Landschleicher on March 4, 2018
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. Gerswalde municipality
- ↑ Märkische Oderzeitung, September 2, 2005, p. 9
- ↑ Märkische Oderzeitung, September 6, 2005, p. 9
- ↑ http://www.hugenotten-uckermark.de/Kirchen/17268_Kaakstedt.htm
- ↑ Märkische Oderzeitung, September 9, 2005, p. 9
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
- ↑ Results of the local elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the district of Uckermark ( Memento of the original from April 15, 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.
- ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 34
- ↑ Local elections in the state of Brandenburg on September 28, 2008. Mayor elections , p. 12
- ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
- ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
- ^ Page about the house at the Brandenburg Building Culture Prize 2013 ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Birgit Ochs: Much more than just a house (surtitle: New houses 2013), in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung online
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