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.
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.
Seats in the municipal assembly (Gemeinderat) as of 2008 elections:
3
2
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).