Smarso

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Municipality Wiesengrund
Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 23 "  N , 14 ° 34 ′ 42"  E
Height : 89 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.61 km²
Residents : 52  (Jun 30, 2020)
Population density : 20 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1950
Incorporated into: Jethe
Postal code : 03149
Area code : 035695

Smarso (officially Rodetal (Niederlausitz) from 1937 to 1945 ), Smaržow in Lower Sorbian , is an inhabited part of the municipality of Wiesengrund in the Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg and belongs to the district Jethe . The place is in the official settlement area of ​​the Sorbs / Wends and was an independent municipality until June 30, 1950.

location

Smarso is located in Niederlausitz , around seven kilometers as the crow flies southwest of the city of Forst (Lausitz) . Surrounding villages are Kreuzschänke in the north, Simmersdorf in the east, Jocksdorf in the southeast, Gahry in the southwest and Jethe in the northwest. The Jether Grenzfließ lies south of Smarso .

Smarso is located at a junction from the county road 7109. The federal road 115 (Forst – Görlitz) is one and a half kilometers east of the village. The federal motorway 15 with the Forst junction is four kilometers from Smarso.

history

The dead end village Smarso was first mentioned in 1529 as "Schmarso". The place name comes from the Sorbian language and means "place where morels grow". Smarso was a vassal village of domination forestry and was therefore to Gubenischen circle in the Electorate of Saxony . In 1806 the Electorate of Saxony was elevated to a kingdom . As a result of the division of the Kingdom of Saxony decided at the Congress of Vienna , Smarso came to the Kingdom of Prussia , where it was assigned to the district of Sorau in the administrative district of Frankfurt of the province of Brandenburg during the territorial reform of 1816 .

Smarso has always belonged to the parish of Groß Schacksdorf . Around 1840 the place had 16 residential buildings and 90 residents. In 1864 Smarso had 104 inhabitants. At the census of December 1, 1871, there were 101 people in 18 families and a single household in the rural community of Smarso. Of the population, 45 were male and 56 were female; 16 residents were younger than ten years. The majority of the inhabitants were of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination. In 1874 Smarso joined the Simmersdorf district . According to Arnošt Muka , 40 of the 86 inhabitants were still Sorbs in 1884/85 , which corresponds to a share of 47 percent.

In October 1937 the place was renamed Rodetal (Niederlausitz) in the course of the Germanization of place names in the German Empire . After the end of the Second World War , this renaming was reversed. Also in 1945 the district of Simmersdorf was dissolved. In the Soviet occupation zone , the municipality of Smarso initially belonged to the smaller district of Sorau, which was dissolved on April 1, 1946 and Smarso was reclassified to the district of Cottbus . Since 1947 Smarso belonged to the state of Brandenburg in the Soviet occupation zone and later in the GDR . On July 1, 1950, Smarso was incorporated into Jethe . In the course of an administrative reform on July 25, 1952, the state of Brandenburg and the district of Cottbus were dissolved. The community Jethe with the district Smarso was assigned to the newly formed forest district in the Cottbus district .

After reunification , the municipality of Jethe with the district Smarso was initially in the district of Forst in the state of Brandenburg, where it joined the Hornow / Simmersdorf office in 1992 . The district of Forst merged on December 6, 1993 in the new Spree-Neisse district . On December 31, 2001, Smarso was merged as part of the community Jethe with the communities Gahry , Gosda , Mattendorf and Trebendorf to form the new community Wiesengrund . The Hornow / Simmersdorf office was dissolved on March 5, 2003 after the minimum number of residents for an office was not met and was incorporated into the Döbern-Land office.

Population development

Population development in Smarso from 1875 to 1946
year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents
1875 86 1910 74 1933 68 1946 63
1890 72 1925 76 1939 66

proof

  1. ↑ Facts and Figures. In: amt-doebern-land.de. Office Döbern-Land, accessed on 23 August 2020 .
  2. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin. Age - origin - meaning . be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2005, p. 152 .
  3. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Frankfurt ad O. Gustav Harnecker's bookstore, Frankfurt a. Cit. 1844 p. 202 .
  4. ↑ Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Frankfurt a. O. Verlag von Gustav Harnecker u. Co., 1867 p. 240 .
  5. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau: The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . Part II: Province of Brandenburg , Berlin 1873, pp. 230f., No. 128 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Ernst Tschernik : The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  7. ↑ 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 November 8, 2017 .