Schmerkendorf

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Schmerkendorf
Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 25 ″  N , 13 ° 14 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 86 m
Area : 10.28 km²
Residents : 646  (2002)
Population density : 63 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : October 26, 2003
Postal code : 04895
Area code : 035365

Schmerkendorf is a district of the town of Falkenberg / Elster in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg and is located immediately south of the city center on the L672 state road.

history

Church in Schmerkendorf
On the right the old parsonage, just the new parsonage

Schmerkendorf was first mentioned in a document around 1251. The current place name probably originated from the first form "the Markgrevindorph", which means Markgrafendorf in High German and indicates the ownership structure.

When four farms in Schmerkendorf were devastated around 1400, the place got a manor . From this a Vorwerk later arose , with which a "Herr von Strauchwitz" was enfeoffed . In 1931 the Schmerkendorfer manor was split up and a large resettlement took place. The distillery , which was built in 1864 after the division of the manor and which was the landmark of the manor , was blown up in 1938.

In 1835 the village had 45 houses with 227 inhabitants. There were 28 horses, 145 cattle, 475 sheep and 17 pigs.

On July 25, 1952, Schmerkendorf, together with the towns of Drasdo , Falkenberg / Elster , Kölsa , Munich / Elster , Langennaundorf , and Uebigau and Wiederau, was reclassified from the Liebenwerda district to the new Herzberg district as part of a comprehensive administrative reform in the GDR .

Administrative affiliation

The village was part of the Liebenwerda office from which the Liebenwerda district later emerged. After 1952, Schmerkendorf was affiliated with the Herzberg district, which then became part of the Elbe-Elster district in 1990.

It was incorporated into the town of Falkenberg / Elster on October 26, 2003.

Population development

Population development of Schmerkendorf from 1875 to 2002.
year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 500 1946 1234 1989 639 1995 605 2001 639
1890 600 1950 1153 1990 633 1996 640 2002 646
1910 700 1964 866 1991 598 1997 643  
1925 953 1971 819 1992 589 1998 645  
1933 909 1981 731 1993 610 1999 643  
1939 908 1985 696 1994 614 2000 642  

Culture and sights

Club life and regular events

Every year there is a village festival, the garden and children's festival, the fire brigade ball and the sports ball. These are designed by the local associations and the volunteer fire department of the district.

Attractions

The Schmerkendorf village church is on the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

In the former rectory is the Schmerkendorfer Heimatstube, which deals with the village, church and school history of the place as well as the life of the local homeland researcher Friedrich Stoy . The half-timbered house was built in 1613 and is a listed building. In 1993 a comprehensive renovation took place.

In the center of the village is an approximately 700 year old elm , one of the oldest of its kind in the state of Brandenburg.

In the “forest park” you will find a goat enclosure and a memorial stone for the local historian Friedrich Stoy, who died in 1978.

Personalities

  • Heinrich Wilhelm Döbel (* 1699; † 1759 in Schmerkendorf), Saxon hunter, forester and author of several books on hunting, who most recently managed the manor estate of Baron Peter von Hohenthal (1726–1794) in Schmerkendorf
  • Friedrich Stoy (* 1887; † 1978), local history researcher who worked as a teacher in Schmerkendorf from 1907 to 1953
  • Harald Heinze (* 1940), writer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of the population and the number of livestock in 1835 . In: Die Schwarze Elster - Our home in words and pictures . No. 596 . Bad Liebenwerda 1985, p. 8-10 .
  2. ^ Amt Falkenberg / Uebigau with its communities . Stadtbuchverlag W + I GmbH and Co. KG Zeuthen, 1996, p. 9 (brochure).
  3. ↑ District page on the Falkenberg / Elster website. City of Falkenberg / Elster, accessed on April 2, 2009 .
  4. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
  5. ↑ Historical municipality directory of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 348 kB) District Elbe-Elster. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics Land Brandenburg, December 2006, p. 14 , accessed on January 22, 2016 .
  6. ↑ List of monuments of the Elbe-Elster district of December 31, 2008 ( online as a PDF file) ( Memento of the original of April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / preview.bldam-brandenburg.de
  7. ^ Brandenburg cultural portal. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 5, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / kulturportal.maerkischeallgemeine.de
  8. ↑ a b c Amt Falkenberg / Uebigau with its communities . Stadtbuchverlag W + I GmbH and Co.KG Zeuthen, 1996, p. 9 (brochure).

Web links

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