Küstriner Vorland

Küstriner Vorland
Municipality
Fort Gorgast
Coat of arms
Location of Küstriner Vorland within Märkisch-Oderland district
Küstriner Vorland Show map of Germany Küstriner Vorland Show map of Brandenburg
Coordinates: 52°34′06″N 14°36′35″E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Märkisch-Oderland
Municipal assoc.	Amt Golzow
Subdivisions	3 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor (2024–29)	Werner Finger[1]
Area
• Total	45.97 km^2 (17.75 sq mi)
Elevation	10 m (30 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	2,549
• Density	55/km^2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	15328
Dialling codes	033472
Vehicle registration	MOL
Website	www.kuestriner-vorland.de

Küstriner Vorland (literally "Küstrin's foreland") 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 ("collective municipality") Golzow.

The settlement of Küstrin-Kietz formed the western part of Küstrin which is now Polish Kostrzyn nad Odrą, until it was cut 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, 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 assembly (Gemeinderat) as of 2008 elections:

• IG Küstriner Vorland (Free Voters): 9
• The Left: 3
• Pro Zukunft (Free Voters): 1
• Evangelical parish: 1
• Independent: 2

Transport

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 Küstrin (Kostrzyn nad Odrą).

Demography

Development of population since 1875 within the current boundaries (Blue line: Population; Dotted line: Comparison to population development of Brandenburg state; Grey background: Time of Nazi rule; Red background: Time of communist rule)

Küstriner Vorland: Population development
within the current boundaries (2013)[3]

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1875 3,973 —     1890 3,612 −0.63% 1910 2,985 −0.95% 1925 3,464 +1.00% 1933 3,428 −0.13% 1939 3,575 +0.70% 1946 3,761 +0.73% 1950 4,293 +3.36% 1964 3,913 −0.66% 1971 3,936 +0.08% 1981 3,682 −0.66% 1985 3,658 −0.16% 1989 3,656 −0.01% 1990 3,630 −0.71% 1991 3,520 −3.03% 1992 3,481 −1.11% 1993 3,447 −0.98% 1994 3,425 −0.64% 1995 3,397 −0.82% 1996 3,357 −1.18%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1997 3,390 +0.98% 1998 3,347 −1.27% 1999 3,328 −0.57% 2000 3,303 −0.75% 2001 3,225 −2.36% 2002 3,160 −2.02% 2003 3,096 −2.03% 2004 3,022 −2.39% 2005 2,992 −0.99% 2006 2,977 −0.50% 2007 2,905 −2.42% 2008 2,873 −1.10% 2009 2,848 −0.87% 2010 2,754 −3.30% 2011 2,640 −4.14% 2012 2,606 −1.29% 2013 2,598 −0.31% 2014 2,606 +0.31% 2015 2,605 −0.04% 2016 2,546 −2.26%

References

1. Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
2. "Bevölkerungsentwicklung und Bevölkerungsstandim Land Brandenburg Dezember 2022" (PDF). Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). June 2023.
3. Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons

External links

Media related to Küstriner Vorland at Wikimedia Commons