Smerbeke
Smerbeke is a desert in the district of Göttingen . It is located between Herzberg am Harz and Scharzfeld in the valley of the Eichelngraben, 300 m northeast of the Knickelberg .
history
Smerbeke was first mentioned in a document in 1288. The time of desertification must be before 1530, but it cannot be narrowed down. According to the results of a site survey, Smerbeke was a single row settlement about 300 m long. Only the field name Alter Kirchhof indicates that Smerbeke could have owned a church or chapel. Except for a few potsherds in the field, nothing today reminds us that there was once a village here. The karst hiking trail leads past the desert.
The place name is made up of the defining word Smer , which can mean fat , pain , dirt or excrement , and the basic word Beke , which means a brook, see the names of the waters on brook .
literature
- Erhard Kühlhorn: The medieval desolations in southern Lower Saxony Volume 3. O – Z, Publishing House for Regional History , Bielefeld 1995, ISBN 3-89534-133-9 , pp. 273-279.
- Uwe Ohainski and Jürgen Udolph: The place names of the district of Osterode , Publishing House for Regional History, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89534-370-6 , pages 155–156
- Klaus Gehmlich: Field names in the district of Osterode am Harz , Volume 1, Papierflieger Verlag, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89720-971-8 , page 157
- Klaus Gehmlich: Field names in the district of Osterode am Harz , Volume 4, M-Sp, Papierflieger Verlag, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-86948-203-3 , p. 179
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Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 34.1 ″ N , 10 ° 22 ′ 20.3 ″ E