Gützkow
Sign in to saveGützkow () is a town in the District of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in north-eastern Germany. It is situated some south of Greifswald, on the north bank of the River Peene. Gützkow was the central town of the medieval County of Gützkow.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_flag
- Flagge Gützkow.svg
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Gützkow COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Gützkow_in_SVO.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Guetzkow Ostvorpommern Rathaus.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Town hall of Gützkow
- German location.state
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- German location.district
- Vorpommern-Greifswald
- German location.Amt
- Züssow
- German location.elevation
- 12
- German location.area
- 57.65
- German location.postal_code
- 17506
- German location.area_code
- 038353
- German location.licence
- VG
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 13 0 75 044
- German location.website
- guetzkow.de
- German location.mayor
- Jutta Dinse
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Gützkow () is a town in the District of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in north-eastern Germany. It is situated some south of Greifswald, on the north bank of the River Peene. Gützkow was the central town of the medieval County of Gützkow.
==Etymology== The name Gützkow is derived from the Slavic Old Polabian language, as is the case of most toponyms in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The oldest records of the name are 1128 as "Gozgauia", 1140 Chozcho, 1163 Gozkowe, 1175 Gotzchowe, 1183 Chozkowe, 1207 Gotzkowe, 1214 Chozcowe, 1228 Gutzkowe and are derived from Polabian Gost = German Gast (English "guest"), the town having had a temple, to which many guests traveled. The assumption of a person named Chockov (place of Chocek, Chocek as name-giver) is not based on facts.