Gusow-Platkow

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 35 '  N , 14 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Märkisch-Oderland
Office :	Neuhardenberg
Height :	10 m above sea level NHN
Area :	38.04 km 2
Residents:	1326 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	35 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	15306
Area code :	03346
License plate :	MOL, FRW, SEE, SRB
Community key :	12 0 64 190
Office administration address:	Karl-Marx-Allee 72 15320 Neuhardenberg
Mayor :	Frank Kraft
Location of the community of Gusow-Platkow in the Märkisch-Oderland district

Platkow Evangelical Church as a ruin, 1974

“Derfflinger-Eiche” on the border between Gusow and Werbig

Gusow-Platkow [ ˈguːzoː ˈplatkoː ] is an official municipality in the district of Märkisch-Oderland ( Brandenburg ). It is administered by the Neuhardenberg Office.

geography

Gusow-Platkow is located in the south-eastern and eastern part of the administrative area of ​​the Neuhardenberg Office. The community borders in the north and northeast on the unofficial community Letschin , in the east and southeast with the unofficial city of Seelow , in the southwest with the community Vierlinden ( Amt Seelow-Land ), in the west and northwest with the community Neuhardenberg (Amt Neuhardenberg).

Community structure

According to its main statute, the community is divided into the following districts:

• Gusow with the inhabited part of the municipality Karlshof and the residential area Gusower Loose
• Platkow with the inhabited part of the municipality Neuhof and the residential areas Paschenbrück and Platkower Loose

history

Gusow and Platkow belonged to the Lebus district since 1817 and from 1952 to the Seelow district in the GDR district of Frankfurt (Oder) . Since 1993 the places have been in the Brandenburg district of Märkisch-Oderland.

The community Gusow-Platkow was created on December 31, 1997 from the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent communities Gusow and Platkow.

Platkow is one of the oldest villages in the Märkisch-Oderland district and was first mentioned in a document in 1229. The manors of Gusow and Platkow were acquired in 1448 by the Brandenburg noble family von Schapelow and in 1649 passed into the possession of the Brandenburg General Field Marshal Georg von Derfflinger . In 1745 the goods went to the Podewils rule, in the 19th century to a branch of the Counts of Schönburg-Glauchau. In the course of the land reform, their property was expropriated.

On the river, about 3 km southwest of the village, there was a water mill, the "Vogelsangmühle", since the 14th century. It was destroyed in 1945. Remains of the walls can still be discovered in the bushes.

year	Gusow	Platkov		year	Gusow- Platkow		year	Gusow- Platkow
1875	2 041	1 348		1997	1 427		2016	1 243
1910	1 728	0 966		2000	1 416		2017	1 294
1939	1 417	0 903		2005	1 406		2018	1 290
1946	1 549	0 977		2010	1 282		2019	1 326
1950	1 795	1 024		2011	1 233
1971	1 341	0 732		2012	1 230
1990	1 012	0 598		2013	1 202
1995	0 922	0 538		2014	1 193
1996	0 915	0 537		2015	1 222

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 Gusow-Platkow consists of 10 community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Voter group	Seats
Fire Sagittarius Sport	5
Country and nature lovers	3
Village club voter community 1961	2

mayor

• 1998–2019: Karlheinz Klein
• since 2019: Frank Kraft

In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Kraft was elected with 63.7% of the valid votes for a term of five years without a candidate.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In blue a shield base divided by a silver wavy bar, in gold a black oak with 13 green leaves and two fruits, the trunk of which is split by a silver lightning groove; accompanied on the right by a bundle with seven openwork black corn stalks, on the left by a green tobacco bush with two pairs of leaves and an inflorescence with 6 red flowers. "

Attractions

The list of monuments in Gusow-Platkow includes the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

• Gusow Castle with a museum in which tin figures give an insight into Brandenburg-Prussian and German history.
• Derfflinger oak with a chest height of 7.90 m (2016).

traffic

The community is on the federal highway 167 between Wriezen and Seelow .

The Seelow-Gusow station is on the Berlin – Küstrin line , which is served by the regional train line RB 26 ( Berlin Ostkreuz - Kostrzyn ). .

Personalities

• Georg Freiherr von Derfflinger (1606–1695), bought the Gusow and Platkow estates after the Thirty Years' War , died in Gusow
• Otto Christoph von Podewils (1719–1781), landowner in Gusow and Platkow
• Friedrich Heinrich von Podewils (1746–1804), landowner in Gusow and Platkow
• Walter Gerlach (1896–1964), SS leader , prison director of the Columbiahaus in Berlin and camp commandant in Sachsenburg concentration camp , born in Gusow
• Heidrun Gerzymisch (* 1944), translation scholar, born in Gusow

literature

• Arnold Winkelmann: Gusow and Platkow. Pictures from the last 100 years. Self-published, Berlin 1904.
• Historical guide. Sites and monuments of history in the districts of Potsdam, Frankfurt (Oder). Urania Verlag, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1987, p. 319.
• Horst Baltzer: Family book Gusow-Platkow (district of Märkisch-Oderland) Brandenburg. 1650-1915 . Vol. 1 and 2, Working Group for Central German Family Research , Leipzig 2016.
• Theodor Fontane: Gusow. In: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg. The Oderland. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin, 1980, p. 211 ff.

Web links

Commons : Gusow-Platkow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Neuhardenberg Office
• Information brochure from the Neuhardenberg - Gusow-Platkow office
• Museum homepage from Bernd Mausolf

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. ↑ ^{a b} Main statute of the community of Gusow-Platkow dated February 2, 2009 Document  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Service portal of the state administration of the state of Brandenburg - Gusow-Platkow municipality
4. ^ Formation of a new community in Gusow-Platkow. Announcement by the Minister of the Interior of October 21, 1997. Official Gazette for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 8, Number 45, November 14, 1997, p. 926.
5. ↑ Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg and the Markgrafthum Nieder-Lausitz in the middle of the 19th century, Brandenburg, 1856, p. 213
6. ↑ Time travel through Gusow-Platkow; http://www.bemadata.homepage.t-online.de/MeineLinks/PlatkowHistory.html ; own findings on site on July 6, 2020
7. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland . Pp. 22-25
8. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
9. ^ 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)
10. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
11. ↑ Results of the municipal elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the district of Märkisch-Oderland ( memento of the original from April 1, 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. 
12. ↑ Section 73 of the Brandenburg Local Election Act
13. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
14. ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017