Küstriner Vorland Explained

Image Coa:DEU Kuestrin-Kietz COA.svg
Coordinates:52.5683°N 14.6097°W
Image Plan:Küstriner Vorland in MOL.png
State:Brandenburg
District:Märkisch-Oderland
Amt:Amt Golzow
Elevation:10
Area:45.97
Postal Code:15328
Area Code:033472
Licence:MOL
Gemeindeschlüssel:12 0 64 266
Divisions:3 Ortsteile
Website:www.kuestriner-vorland.de
Mayor:Werner Finger[1]
Leader Term:2024 - 29

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:

3

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).

Notes and References

  1. https://wahlen.brandenburg.de/wahlen/de/kommunalwahlen/ergebnisse/buergermeisterwahlen/ergebnisse/~12064000 Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters