Schmogrow

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Municipality Schmogrow-Fehrow
Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 7 "  N , 14 ° 12 ′ 47"  E
Height : 59 m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.89 km²
Residents : 560  (2006)
Population density : 51 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2001
Postal code : 03096
Area code : 035603
Schmogrow through the village
War memorial

Schmogrow , in Lower Sorbian Smogorjow , is a district of the municipality Schmogrow-Fehrow in the Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg .

location

Schmogrow is located in Niederlausitz, almost 17 kilometers northwest of Cottbus and six kilometers east of Burg in the Spreewald and belongs to the official settlement area of ​​the Sorbs / Wends . Surrounding villages are of the community Byhleguhre-Byhlen belonging district Byhlen in the north, Fehrow the east, STRIESOW in the municipality dissen-striesow and letters to the southeast, Guhrow and Advertise in the south, castle in the southeast and the associated turn to the municipality Byhleguhre-Byhlen Byhleguhre in the north-west.

State road 501 runs through Schmogrow from Burg to Peitz . The Spree flows south of the village, and the Great River flows through the village. The Saccasne residential area belongs to Schmogrow .

history

Schmogrow was first mentioned in 1400 as Smogro . In the following time the place name changed from Schmogero to Smogoro to Smogrow in 1652. The place name is derived from the Sorbian word smogor and means peat .

After the Congress of Vienna , Schmogrow came to the Kingdom of Prussia as part of Niederlausitz . In 1938 Saccasne was incorporated, but the place soon became independent again from Schmogrow. On July 25, 1952, the community was assigned to the newly formed Cottbus-Land district in the Cottbus district . On January 1, 1973 Saccasne was again incorporated into Schmogrow. After reunification , Schmogrow 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 , Schmogrow finally came to the newly formed Spree-Neisse district . On December 31, 2001 Schmogrow was merged with the neighboring village of Fehrow to form the new municipality of Schmogrow-Fehrow .

Population development

Population development in Schmogrow from 1875 to 2000
year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 720 1939 608 1981 490
1890 720 1946 744 1985 468
1910 615 1950 651 1989 482
1925 640 1964 598 1995 506
1933 594 1971 565 2000 548

For his statistics on the Sorbian population in Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 707 inhabitants for Schmogrow in the 1880s, of which 701 were Sorbs (99%) and six were Germans.

Web links

Commons : Schmogrow  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Schmogrow on the website of the community Schmogrow-Fehrow
  • Schmogrow in the RBB program Landschleicher on June 25, 2000

proof

  1. Schmogrow district. In: schmogrow-fehrow.de. Schmogrow-Fehrow, accessed June 3, 2017 .
  2. ^ Schmogrow in the historical index of places. Retrieved June 3, 2017 .
  3. 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 .
  4. Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.