Gorgast

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Gorgast
Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 6 ″  N , 14 ° 32 ′ 55 ″  E
Height : 13 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 720  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : December 31, 1997
Postal code : 15328
Primaries : 033472, 033479
Gorgast (Brandenburg)
Gorgast

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

Village church in Gorgast.
Estate in Gorgast.

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

Commons : Gorgast  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Gorgast in the RBB program Landschleicher on January 30, 2005

Individual evidence

  1. Community and district directory of the state of Brandenburg. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB), accessed on June 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ The monument is being renovated in "Märkische Oderzeitung" , April 3, 2009
  3. ^ Ingetraut Senst, employee of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation, according to the Märkische Oderzeitung dated April 3, 2008.
  4. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . v. Bülow , Volume 92 of the complete series; Limburg (Lahn): CA Starke, 1987, p. 175
  5. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities, see 1997
  6. ^ Ingetraut Senst, employee of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation, according to the Märkische Oderzeitung dated April 3, 2008.
  7. ^ The Genealogical Place Directory: Gorgast