Küstriner Vorland

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Küstriner Vorland
Fort Gorgast

Coat of arms
Küstriner Vorland
Coordinates: 52°34′06″N 14°36′35″E / 52.56833°N 14.60972°E / 52.56833; 14.60972Coordinates: 52°34′06″N 14°36′35″E / 52.56833°N 14.60972°E / 52.56833; 14.60972
Country Germany
State Brandenburg
District Märkisch-Oderland
Municipal assoc. Golzow
Subdivisions 3 Ortsteile
Government
  Mayor Bernd Korb (WG IGKV)
Area
  Total 45.97 km2 (17.75 sq mi)
Elevation 10 m (30 ft)
Population (2012-12-31)[1]
  Total 2,606
  Density 57/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 15328
Dialling codes 033472
Vehicle registration MOL
Website www.kuestriner-vorland.de

Küstriner Vorland (Polish Kostrzyn) is a municipality in the district Märkisch-Oderland, in Brandenburg, Germany at the border with Poland.

History

It was established on January 1, 1998 by the merger of Küstrin-Kietz with the villages of Gorgast and Manschnow. Küstriner Vorland is part of the Amt ("municipal federation") Golzow.

The settlement of Küstrin-Kietz formed the western part of Küstrin (Polish Kostrzyn nad Odrą today) until it was split off by the implementation of the Oder-Neisse line in 1945. The town's quarters west of the Oder River then belonged to East Germany and were renamed Kietz in 1954. In a 1991 vote the inhabitants chose to readopt the historic denotation.

The incorporated village of Gorgast (Polish Gorgoszcz[2]), once a commandry of the Order of Saint John, features a historic fort finished in 1889 in addition to the Küstrin fortification system and a park laid out according to plans by Peter Joseph Lenné.

Politics

Seats in the municipal assambly (Gemeinderat) as of 2008 elections:

Transportation

The border crossing at Küstrin-Kietz is the eastern terminus of the Bundesstraße 1 federal highway from Aachen via Berlin. It is continued by the Polish national road No. 22 to Gorzów Wielkopolski and Elbląg.

Küstrin-Kietz as well as Gorgast also have access to local trains running on the former Prussian Eastern Railway from Berlin-Lichtenberg to Kostrzyn.

References

  1. "Bevölkerung im Land Brandenburg nach amtsfreien Gemeinden, Ämtern und Gemeinden 31. Dezember 2012 (XLS-Datei; 83 KB) (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011)". Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). 31 December 2012. 
  2. Mapa Polski 1:500 000 Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny Sztabu Generalnego W.P., Warszawa 1947

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