Fehrow

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Municipality Schmogrow-Fehrow
Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 10 ″  N , 14 ° 14 ′ 55 ″  E
Height : 55 m above sea level NN
Area : 19.52 km²
Residents : 429  (2006)
Population density : 22 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2001
Postal code : 03096
Primaries : 035606, 035609
Aerial view
Aerial view
Fehrow village church

Fehrow , Prjawoz in Lower Sorbian , is a district of the Schmogrow-Fehrow municipality in the Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg . Until it was merged with the neighboring community of Schmogrow on December 31, 2001, Fehrow was an independent community.

location

Fehrow is located in Niederlausitz, about 15 kilometers northwest of Cottbus and seven kilometers east of Burg in the Spreewald and belongs to the official settlement area of ​​the Sorbs / Wends . Surrounding villages are Lamsfeld in the village Schwielochsee in the north, Drachhausen in the Northeast, Drehnow and the Cottbus district Maiberg in the East, both to the community dissen-striesow belonging Places Dissen in the southeast and STRIESOW in the south, Schmogrow in the West as well as to the community Byhleguhre- Byhlen belonging district Byhleguhre in the north-west.

State road 50 runs through Fehrow from Kolkwitz to Peitz and state road 501 to Burg. The Spree flows south of the village . The Kolonie (Kolonija) residential area belongs to Fehrow .

In the Fehrow unite Malxe and Hammergraben for Great flow , which finally into the Spree flows.

history

Fehrow was first mentioned in a document in 1362, but was settled much earlier, which is proven by archaeological finds from the Stone Age . The Sorbian place name Prjawoz means to drag through or to carry out and indicates the location of the place on the Salzstrasse , an important trade route between Frankfurt (Oder) and Bohemia in the Middle Ages . The name Fehrow means ferry . Until 1550 Fehrow belonged to the then Peitz office .

According to the topographical-statistical overview of the administrative district of Frankfurt ad O. from 1844, Fehrow had 416 inhabitants in 83 residential buildings that year, of which one building and eight residents are in the chief forestry department . In 1867 the place had 451 inhabitants, 14 of them in the chief forester's office. Fehrow burned down twice, the last time in 1868. Almost the entire village was destroyed in this fire, only five farms remained.

In 1875 the Fehrower village church was consecrated. The oldest building in town is a restaurant , which was first mentioned in 1652.

After the Congress of Vienna , Fehrow came to the Kingdom of Prussia as part of Niederlausitz . On July 25, 1952, the community was assigned to the newly formed Cottbus-Land district in the Cottbus district . After the reunification , Fehrow was in the Cottbus district in Brandenburg and has been part of the Burg (Spreewald) office since July 16, 1992 . After the district reform in Brandenburg on December 6, 1993 , Fehrow finally came to the newly formed Spree-Neisse district . On December 31, 2001, Fehrow was merged with the neighboring village of Schmogrow to form the new municipality of Schmogrow-Fehrow .

Sorbian language

The Sorbian / Wendish language was the colloquial language in town for a long time . For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 419 inhabitants in the 1880s, of which 418 were Sorbs and only one German. Since then, the proportion of the Sorbian-speaking population has declined, in 1995 only 25.7% of Fehrow's residents had Sorbian skills.

Population development

Population development in Fehrow from 1875 to 2000
year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 402 1939 362 1981 360
1890 416 1946 484 1985 362
1910 383 1950 478 1989 416
1925 400 1964 376 1995 415
1933 383 1971 365 2000 434

Web links

Commons : Fehrow  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Fehrow on the website of the Schmogrow-Fehrow community
  • Fehrow in the RBB program Landschleicher on September 29, 2013

proof

  1. a b Fehrow district. In: schmogrow-fehrow.de. Schmogrow-Fehrow, accessed June 3, 2017 .
  2. Topographical-statistical overview of the administrative district of Frankfurt ad O. 1844, p. 39 ( bsb-muenchen.de ).
  3. Statistical Bureau of the Royal Government of Frankfurt a. O .: Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Frankfurt a. O. Verlag von Gustav Harnecker u. Co., Frankfurt ad O. 1867, online at Google Books , p. 40
  4. ^ Fehrow in the historical index of places. Retrieved June 3, 2017 .
  5. Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  6. Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 KB) District Spree-Neisse. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on June 3, 2017 .