Küstriner foreland

Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Märkisch-Oderland
Office :	Golzow
Height :	10 m above sea level NHN
Area :	46.53 km 2
Residents:	2575 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	55 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	15328
Primaries :	033472, 033479 (Küstrin-Kietz)
License plate :	MOL, FRW, SEE, SRB
Community key :	12 0 64 266
LOCODE :	DE KTV
Community structure:	3 districts
Office administration address:	Seelower Strasse 14 ; 15328 Golzow
Website :	www.kuestriner-vorland.de
Mayor :	Werner Finger
Location of the municipality of Küstriner Vorland in the Märkisch-Oderland district

Küstriner Vorland is a municipality in the Märkisch-Oderland district in the state of Brandenburg . Together with four other communities in the Oderbruch region, Küstriner Vorland is part of the Golzow district . The place is on the Oder , which separates it from the Polish city of Küstrin and forms the border between Poland and Germany.

Community structure

The former communities of Gorgast , Küstrin-Kietz and Manschnow each form a district. Other inhabited parts of the community are the sheep farm, the cow bridge, the Herzershof and the Neu Manschnow.

In addition, there are the Gorgaster Loose, Katharinhof, Manschnower Loose, Neuhof, Neuhof II and Tannenhof residential areas .

history

Gorgast and Manschnow belonged to the Lebus district since 1817 , Küstrin-Kietz to the Königsberg (Neumark) district in the province of Brandenburg 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 municipality of Küstriner Vorland was created on December 31, 1997 as a merger of the previously independent municipalities of Gorgast, Manschnow and Küstrin-Kietz.

Gorgast

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 was built in 1840 by a tenant. A neo-Gothic church was built in 1888.

Today's church is one of the first newly built churches in the GDR , which is why it is a listed building . In 1959 it was built on the foundations of the church that was destroyed in the Battle of Küstrin in 1945 .

From 1900 a sugar factory was producing in Gorgast.

In Gorgaster Park, which was laid out by Peter Joseph Lenné , is the memorial for the fallen German soldiers of the Second World War. Lieutenant Johann Albrecht von Bülow (* 1924, brother of Vicco ) , who fell on March 21, 1945, found his final resting place here.

Gorgast has about 900 inhabitants.

Küstrin-Kietz

Küstrin-Kietz is the part of the former fortress town of Küstrin with about 850 inhabitants that remained in Germany .

View from Küstrin-Kietz over the Oder to the Küstrin fortress

Former Wehrmacht
artillery barracks and barracks of the Soviet troops in Germany until 1991 on the Oderinsel von Küstrin-Kietz (status 2013)

Until the end of the Second World War, Küstrin-Kietz was part of the town of Küstrin, first mentioned in a document in 1232 . Its old town, located between the Oder and Warthe , with the partially preserved fortifications, was destroyed in the Second World War, with the exception of the foundation walls that have now been exposed and not rebuilt. The district of Küstrin-Neustadt , in Polish Kostrzyn nad Odrą , east of the Warta, has belonged to Poland since 1945, initially to the Gorzów / Landsberg (Warthe) voivodeship , and since January 1, 1999 to the Lubusz region .

In the 13th century a Slavic service settlement ( Kietz ) was created for the castle of Küstrin. This was moved to the left side of the Oder in the 16th century. After another relocation in 1813, the village of Kietz emerged from it, which was incorporated in 1930 and together with the Langen Vorstadt formed the district of Küstrin-Kietz. With the division of the city of Küstrin through the establishment of the German-Polish border along the Oder in accordance with the provisions of the Potsdam Agreement in 1945, it became an independent municipality. The Kuhbrückenvorstadt districts west of the Oder and the area between the Oder and the Oder-Vorflut-Kanal (so-called Oderinsel ) belonging to the old town were attached to it. The artillery barracks of the German Wehrmacht on the latter were occupied by Soviet army units after 1945. The entire Oder island was therefore a restricted military area until it was withdrawn in 1991. The bridges over the Oder were closed to public traffic in 1945.

In 1954 the community was renamed Friedensfelde and at the end of 1954 it was renamed Kietz . As a result of a public survey , the place has been called Küstrin-Kietz again since October 3, 1991 .

On May 30, 1992, with the extension of the Berlin-Lichtenberg - Küstrin-Kietz line to Küstrin / Kostrzyn nad Odra, a rail border crossing for passenger traffic was opened. Until then, the rail connection over the Oder was only used for freight traffic.

The road border crossing on Bundesstraße 1 was opened on November 21, 1992.

Manschnow

Manschnow was first mentioned in 1336 and has about 1,250 inhabitants. Neu Manschnow was incorporated on February 1, 1974.

Population development

year	Gorgast	Küstrin-Kietz	Manschnow	year	Küstriner foreland	year	Küstriner foreland
1981	1 073	1 125	1 484	1997	3,390	2015	2 605
1990	0 942	1 027	1 661	2000	3 303	2016	2 546
1995	0 885	0 964	1 548	2005	2,992	2017	2 572
1996	0 877	0 938	1 542	2010	2,754	2018	2 561
				2011	2,640	2019	2 575
				2012	2 606
				2013	2 598
				2014	2 606

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31, from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

The municipal council of Küstriner Vorland consists of 16 members and the honorary mayor with the following distribution of seats:

Party / group	Voices 2014	Voices 2019	Seats 2014	Seats 2019
Interest group Küstriner Vorland (IGKV)	40.8%	37.3%	7th	6th
CDU	11.5%	14.9%	2	2
Community fire brigade and family	10.8%	10.8%	2	2
Voting Group of Evangelical Churches (WEK)	08.6%	09.6%	1	2
Beautiful life in Küstriner Vorland (SLK)	-	06.4%	-	1
Pro future Märkisch Oderland	02.8%	05.1%	-	1
THE LEFT	12.5%	05.0%	2	1
Individual applicant Michael Feldhahn	-	04.5%	-	1
Single applicant Gisela Henschel	06.5%	03.2%	1	-
Individual applicant Uwe Kunert	04.5%	-	1	-

mayor

2003–2014: Bernd Korb
since 2014: Werner Finger (Interest Group Küstriner Vorland)

In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Finger was confirmed in office for a further five-year term with 70.7% of the valid votes (2014: 75.8%).

Coats of arms of the districts

Gorgast
Küstrin-Kietz
Manschnow

Sights and culture

The list of monuments in Küstriner Vorland includes the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the State of Brandenburg.

Buildings

Manor house on the former Johanniterkommende in Gorgast from 1840
Gorgast village church from 1959, replaces a previous building from 1888
Fort Gorgast , built between 1883 and 1889, is the best-preserved outer fort of the Küstrin Fortress , to which it formerly belonged
Former artillery barracks on the Oder Island in the Küstrin-Kietz district, which belonged to Küstrin-Altstadt until the end of the Second World War, last evidence of the Küstrin garrison on German soil, unused since the withdrawal of the Russian armed forces in 1991
Kulturhaus in Küstrin-Kietz, multifunctional culture and event center
Mill on the Alte Oder in Manschnow

Parks

Gorgaster Park ( laid out by Peter Joseph Lenné ) with a war memorial

Natural monuments

Nature reserve on the Oderinsel in Küstrin-Kietz

museum

Museum of the history of Küstrin in the Kulturhaus Küstrin-Kietz

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. A flower festival has been held in Manschnow every June since 1989.

traffic

Federal highway 1 runs through the municipality in a west-east direction with the border crossing to Poland in Küstrin-Kietz. In the Manschnow district, the B 112 branches off from the B 1 towards Frankfurt (Oder) .

The community can be reached by rail via the cross-border regional train line RB 26 Berlin Ostkreuz - Kostrzyn on the Ostbahn . The Gorgast train station , the Küstrin-Kietz border station and the currently unused Küstrin-Altstadt stop on the Oder Island are located in the municipality .

Passenger traffic on the Küstrin-Kietz – Frankfurt (Oder) railway was discontinued in 1996. The Küstrin municipal tram also ran on the left bank of the Oder until 1937, at times as far as the Odervorflutkanal.

There is a pier in Küstrin-Kietz for passenger shipping on the Oder.

Personalities

Gustav von Rosenstiel (1824–1888), dike captain of the Oderbruch , lived in Gorgast
Arnold von Rosenstiel (1864–1926), district administrator of the Lissa district , born in Gorgast
Erich Lezinsky (1886–1952), publisher and politician (SPD), born in Gorgast
Bettina Fortunato (* 1957), politician (Die Linke), lives in Manschnow

literature

Frank Lammers: Küstrin. City history and city traffic. Verlag GVE, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89218-091-1 .

Web links

Commons : Küstriner Vorland - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ 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 ).

^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Küstriner Vorland community

^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities, see 1997

↑ The monument is being renovated in "Märkische Oderzeitung" , April 3, 2009

↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office

↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office

^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland . Pp. 22-25.

↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7

^ 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)