Gorgast
Gorgast
Community Küstriner Vorland
Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 6 ″ N , 14 ° 32 ′ 55 ″ E
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Height : | 13 m above sea level NHN | |
Residents : | 720 (December 31, 2016) | |
Incorporation : | December 31, 1997 | |
Postal code : | 15328 | |
Primaries : | 033472, 033479 | |
Location of Gorgast in Brandenburg |
Gorgast is a district of 833 inhabitants (2006) in the municipality of Küstriner Vorland in Brandenburg in the Oderbruch region .
history
Gorgast was first mentioned in the land book of Emperor Charles IV from 1375. In 1584 the place burned down completely. The Kommende Gorgast was a branch of the Order of St. John until 1811 . After the order was abolished in 1811, it was converted into a royal Prussian domain office, the Gorgast office , which was dissolved in 1872/74.
The manor house built by the tenant Gustav Wahnschaffe in 1840 was rebuilt in 1874 by the dike captain and tenant Gustav von Rosenstiel . A large landscape park was created around 1850. There is apparently no reliable evidence for the widespread assumption that it is a work by Peter Josef Lenné. A neo-Gothic church was built in 1888. In 1959, on the foundations of this in 1945 in the Battle of Küstrin destroyed building the village church Gorgast built under monument stands.
From 1900 a sugar factory was producing in Gorgast.
In Gorgaster Park there is a memorial for fallen German soldiers of the Second World War. Lieutenant Johann-Albrecht Sigismund von Bülow , a younger brother of Loriot , who was born in Brandenburg on November 27, 1924 and fell as a tank grenadier on March 21, 1945 , was also buried here.
On January 31, 1997, the previously independent municipalities of Gorgast, Manschnow and Küstrin-Kietz merged to form the municipality of Küstriner Vorland.
Population development
year | 1875 | 1890 | 1910 | 1925 | 1933 | 1946 | 1993 | 1996 | 2006 | 2016 |
population | 1699 | 1615 | 1239 | 1413 | 1296 | 1183 | 889 | 877 | 833 | 720 |
Culture and sights
Buildings
- The Gorgast village church, inaugurated in 1959, is one of the sacred buildings newly built in the early days of the GDR. The furnishings are mostly modern and come from the time the church was built. The altarpiece is made of French lead glass and has a diameter of 1.8 m. The fifth is from the previous building from 1888; the organ from Wilhelm Sauer's workshop .
- Manor house from 1840
- Fort Gorgast , built between 1883 and 1889, is considered to be the best preserved outer fort of the Küstrin Fortress , to which it belonged
See also: List of monuments in Küstriner Vorland with the monuments of all districts entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Gorgast is located immediately north of the federal highway 1 on the state road L 33 from Letschin to Manschnow .
The Gorgast station on the Prussian Ostbahn is a stopping point for trains on the cross-border regional train line RB 26 Berlin-Ostkreuz - Kostrzyn .
Events
Each summer place in Fort Gorgast the vain and outside Oderbruch Open Air (oboa) instead.
A riding and jumping tournament is held annually in the Gorgast Park.
Web links
- Gorgast in the RBB program Landschleicher on January 30, 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ Community and district directory of the state of Brandenburg. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB), accessed on June 22, 2020.
- ↑ The monument is being renovated in "Märkische Oderzeitung" , April 3, 2009
- ^ Ingetraut Senst, employee of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation, according to the Märkische Oderzeitung dated April 3, 2008.
- ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . v. Bülow , Volume 92 of the complete series; Limburg (Lahn): CA Starke, 1987, p. 175
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities, see 1997
- ^ Ingetraut Senst, employee of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation, according to the Märkische Oderzeitung dated April 3, 2008.
- ^ The Genealogical Place Directory: Gorgast