Guhrow

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Guhrow
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Guhrow highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′  N , 14 ° 14 ′  E

Basic data
State : Brandenburg
County : Spree-Neisse
Office : Castle (Spreewald)
Height : 58 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.67 km 2
Residents: 531 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 80 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 03096
Area code : 035606
License plate : SPN, FOR, GUB, SPB
Community key : 12 0 71 164
Office administration address: Hauptstrasse 46
03096 Burg (Spreewald)
Website : amt-burg-spreewald.de
Mayoress : Kerstin Jaser
Location of the municipality of Guhrow in the Spree-Neisse district
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Guhrow , Góry in Lower Sorbian , is a municipality in the southeastern part of Brandenburg in the Spree-Neisse district . It belongs to the Burg (Spreewald) office .

geography

Friedenseiche and Lindenstrasse

Guhrow is right on the edge of the Spreewald between the communities of Briesen and Werben .

The community is located in the traditional settlement area of ​​the Sorbs / Wends . Public buildings and facilities, streets, paths, squares and bridges are labeled in two languages.

Community structure

Guhrow has no districts, inhabited parishes or places to live .

history

Guhrow was first mentioned by name in 1469.

Since 1816 Guhrow belonged to the Cottbus district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg and from 1952 to the Cottbus-Land district in the GDR district of Cottbus . The community has been in the Spree-Neisse district of Brandenburg since 1993.

Population development

year Residents
1875 500
1890 474
1910 465
1925 495
1933 486
1939 477
1946 673
1950 641
year Residents
1964 547
1971 513
1981 472
1985 464
1989 429
1990 414
1991 403
1992 404
1993 406
1994 409
year Residents
1995 420
1996 437
1997 452
1998 518
1999 553
2000 582
2001 588
2002 589
2003 586
2004 589
year Residents
2005 600
2006 585
2007 583
2008 578
2009 563
2010 558
2011 543
2012 546
2013 531
2014 523
year Residents
2015 514
2016 520
2017 521
2018 519
2019 531

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 Guhrow 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
Active for Guhrow 7th
Individual applicant Marcus Schilka 1

mayor

  • 1970–2014: Erna Koppermann
  • since 2014: Kerstin Jaser (voter group "Active for Guhrow")

Jaser was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2014 unopposed with 89.2% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

Attractions

In the list of monuments in Guhrow and in the list of ground monuments in Guhrow are the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

On the meadow path in the north of the village, a memorial stone commemorates two young farm workers who were surprised by a storm on April 24, 1888 and who were struck by lightning shortly before they reached the village.

traffic

Guhrow is on the L 51 state road between Burg (Spreewald) and Cottbus .

The Ruben-Guhrow stop was on the Lübben – Straupitz – Cottbus narrow-gauge railway , which was closed in 1970.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Personalities associated with Guhrow

  • Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811), writer, lived temporarily in Guhrow in the manor house. His father bought the small manor in 1781. Heinrich von Kleist and his six siblings sold the Guhrow estate to Ludwig von Wackerbarth, the owner of the neighboring Briesen estate, in 1797 .

Sports

The sports club in the village is SV 1912 Guhrow with football (Niederlausitz district league) and table tennis.

Web links

Commons : Guhrow / Góry  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. Guhrow Parish
  3. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Spree-Neisse . Pp. 18-21
  4. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
  5. ^ 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)
  6. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
  7. ↑ 40 years for Guhrow. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , April 1, 2010
  8. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 25, 2014
  9. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
  10. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
  11. ↑ Contracts 1781 and 1797 in the Brandenburg State Main Archives Potsdam - 37 Briesen, Kr. Cottbus 95 and 101