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Sergen Žargoń Municipality Neuhausen / Spree Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 42 "  N , 14 ° 30 ′ 46"  E
Height :	108 m above sea level NN
Area :	9.95 km²
Residents :	388  (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density :	39 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	September 19, 2004
Postal code :	03058
Area code :	035605
Location of Sergen in Brandenburg
Chapel on the village green in Sergen

Sergen ( Žargoń in Lower Sorbian ) is a district of the Neuhausen / Spree community in the Spree-Neisse district of Brandenburg .

Location and accessibility

Sergen is located in Lower Lusatia , around ten kilometers as the crow flies southwest of Forst (Lausitz) and twelve kilometers as the crow flies south-east of Cottbus . The district of the village borders on Kathlow in the north, Gosda with Dubrau in the northeast, Jethe in the east, Gablenz in the south, Komptendorf in the southwest and Roggosen in the west . In addition to the village of Sergen, the district of Sergen also includes the district of Grüntal .

The village of Sergen is on the state road 47 from Kathlow to Neuhausen . The state road 48 and the federal motorway 15 are also within the district of Sergen . The place lies on the Tranitz and the Jether Grenzfließ . The latter forms the border with Gablenz east of the mouth of the Erlenfließ. In the northwest, the Roggosener Grenzfließ forms the border with the Roggosen district. There are several ponds to the west and northwest of the town center.

history

Sergen was first mentioned in 1346 as Serchin . In 1408 the spelling of the place name was Sergaw and from 1464 Sergen . In the following time the form of the place name varied again and again. The Sorbian place name is called Žergona in 1649 and has been Žargoń since 1843 at the latest . The name is probably derived from the Lower Sorbian word žerchlica for meadow foam herb .

From the 15th century at the latest, Sergen belonged to the Cottbus dominion . The place was thus part of the Mark Brandenburg and was in an exclave of this within the Electorate of Saxony . Friedrich Wilhelm August Bratring listed Sergen in 1809 as a village and estate with a watermill. The place had then 256 inhabitants, by households within the community were eleven full and two half-farmers, nine Kossäten , six Büdner, three granny, a Rademacher and a forester. In addition, a forge was operated in the place . During the municipal reform carried out in the Kingdom of Prussia in 1816 , Sergen was assigned to the Cottbus district . At the beginning of the 1840s Sergen had 389 inhabitants and was churched in Komptendorf .

In 1864 Sergen had a forestry, a sheep farm and a brick factory as well as 71 residential buildings and 495 residents. At the census of December 1, 1871, there were 432 inhabitants in 73 families and three single households in the rural community of Sergen. Of the population, 198 were men and 234 women; 109 inhabitants were children under the age of ten. All of Sergen's residents were of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination. The Gutsbezirk Sergen had at the time of the census, 89 residents, including 48 men and 41 women. 19 residents were children under ten years of age. Except for one Catholic, all the other residents here were also Protestants. According to Arnošt Muka , 477 of the 512 inhabitants were Sorbs in 1884/85 , which corresponds to a share of 93 percent. In 1956 the proportion of residents with knowledge of Sorbian was only 10.4 percent.

Fallen memorial next to the chapel

In 1886 the Cottbus district was renamed the Cottbus district . On December 1, 1910, the rural community Sergen had 347 and the Sergen manor 132 inhabitants. In 1928 the manor district was united with the rural community. After the Second World War , Sergen was occupied by the Soviets and belonged to the GDR from 1949. During the district reform on July 25, 1952, Sergen was assigned to the Cottbus-Land district in the Cottbus district . On January 1, 1974, the northern neighboring municipality of Kathlow was incorporated into Sergen, and on May 6, 1990, Kathlow regained its independence. After reunification , Sergen initially belonged to the Cottbus district . In 1992 the municipality merged with several other municipalities to form the Neuhausen / Spree office to handle its administrative business .

On December 6, 1993, the Cottbus district merged with the Guben, Forst and Spremberg districts in the new Spree-Neisse district . On September 19, 2004 the municipalities belonging to the Neuhausen / Spree office merged to form the new large municipality of Neuhausen / Spree , whereby the Neuhausen / Spree office was dissolved.

Mayor and population

The mayor is Ronny Magister, his deputies are Dietlinde Becker and Karina Glatzer.

The district has 388 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Neuhausen / Spree - Sergen community. In: neuhausen-spree.de. Retrieved April 5, 2015 . 
2. ^ Siegfried Körner: Book of place names in Niederlausitz: Studies on the toponymy of the districts of Beekow, Calau, Cottbus, Eisenhüttenstadt, Finstewalde, Forst, Guben, Lübben, Luckau, and Spremberg. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, p. 228.
3. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Frankfurt ad O. Gustav Harnecker's bookstore, Frankfurt a. O. 1844 Online at Google Books , p. 45.
4. ↑ Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Frankfurt a. O. Verlag von Gustav Harnecker u. Co., 1867 Online at Google Books , p. 47.
5. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau: The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . Part II: Province of Brandenburg , Berlin 1873, p. 220f., No. 86 ( online ), and p. 222f., No. 140 ( online ).
6. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954
7. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995.