Neuendorf (Brück)

The village has 257 inhabitants (2015), and lies on the federal road 246 on the border of the Zauche plateau to the Glogau-Baruther Urstromtal.

Until 1815, Neuendorf was of great importance for Brandenburg, since the village was the last border post in the Märkische Zauche in the direction of Saxony.

It was only with the Congress of Vienna in 1815 that the northern part of the Saxon spa district, to which Brück and Belzig had belonged, finally fell to Prussia.

With the extensive melioration measures under Frederick the Great in the Baruther Urstromtal, the Neuendorfer farmers started to gain wealth; they had previously had to lay their fields on the sandy, dry, and rather barren land of the Zauche, and from the middle of the eighteenth century onwards they had been able to shift their cultivated lands into the overgrown and fertile valley.

Remains of the formerly extensive Erlenbruch forest between Neuendorf, Stromtal, and Bundesautobahn 9, along with a variety of drainage channels, remind today of the swampy lowland.