Great Gandern
Groß Gandern (Polish Gądków Wielki, pronunciation: [ˈɡɔntkuv ˈvjɛlkʲi]) is a village in the municipality of Sternberg (Torzym), within the powiat Sulęciński ( Zielenziger district ) in the Polish Lubusz Voivodeship .
Geographical location
The village is located in the Neumark , about eleven kilometers southwest of Sternberg, 26 kilometers southwest of Zielenzig, 50 kilometers northwest of Grünberg (Zielona Góra) and 58 kilometers south of Landsberg an der Warthe (Zielona Góra) on the Stettin – Reppen – Breslau railway line .
history
Groß Gandern used to be the property of the Knights Templar , who founded a parish here in the 13th century . From 1350 part of the village belonged to the Knights of the Order of St. John , and in the 15th century it became the property of the Lossow family .
The village church burned down at the end of the 19th century. In 1911 the current building of the (until 1945 Protestant) church was completed.
In 1945, United Gandern in lay County Weststernberg , Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt , the Prussian province of Brandenburg of the German Reich .
After the end of the Second World War , Groß Gandern was placed under Polish administration on August 2, 1945, along with other areas east of the Oder-Neisse line . The immigration of Polish migrants began, some of whom came from areas east of the Curzon Line that had been conquered by Poland after the First World War . Unless the local villagers had fled, they were subsequently forced out of their houses and apartments and soon afterwards were evicted by the local Polish administrative authorities .
Demographics
| year | population | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 812 | |
| 1939 | 740 |
tourism
There is a kayak station on the Pleiske River . Another kayak station and a small campsite are located south of the village on the Great Lake (Jezioro Wielki) with a side bay called Schinningsee (Jezioro Wielicko). Urban explorers and anglers visit the beach at a former railway holiday home that has fallen into ruin .
literature
- Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Mark Brandenburg and the Margraviate Nieder-Lausitz in the middle of the 19th century . Volume 3, 1st edition, Brandenburg 1856, p. 286 ( online ).
- Marta Danowska: Witraże sacralne z okresu od 2. poł. XIX do lat 30. XX wieku w województwie lubuskim . w: Lubuskie Materiały Konserwatorskie, tom 5 (2008), Zielona Góra 2008.
- Siegfried Bufe: Railways in East Brandenburg and Posen. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1999, ISBN 3-922138-71-3 .
Web links
- Historical postcards from the place
- Kayak station in Groß Gandern
- Film of the former PKP holiday complex
- Photos of the former PKP holiday complex
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006)
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ' N , 14 ° 58' E