DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Brandenburg
Landkreis: Teltow-Fläming

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Baruth / Mark is situated at an elevation of 57 m in the lower Fläming hill chain in central Barndenburg north of the Spreewald region. The municipality has a population of about 4,400 (2006).

The earliest written mention of the place dates from 1234 when a glassworks near Baruth was mentioned in a document of the monastery of Dobrilugk (Doberlug). Later on, Baruth came in possession of the Ernestine line (Saxe-Wittenberg) of the Wettin dynasty but later on passed to the Albertine line under Moritz, Elector of Saxony. In 1537 the counts of Solms had purchased the domains of Sonnewalde (Lower Lausitz) and Pouch (near Bitterfeld). When it became clear that the line had to be partitioned again, the domains of Baruth were purchased in 1596. Solms-Laubach was partitioned in 1607 into Solms-Rödelheim(-Assenheim), Solms-Laubach, Solms-Sonnewalde and Solms-Baruth. In 1616 the town of Baruth was given a charter based on the municipal laws of Magdeburg. Following the Treaty of Lunéville (1801), the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 and the Treaty of the Confederaton of the Rhine of 1806, Solms-Baruth was mediatised in 1806 to the grand duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt. After the Congress of Vienna (1815), Baruth became part of Prussia (province Saxony). The town quarter Glashütte ('glassworks') originated in 1716 as a village of gaffers. The village remained almost completely unchanged until today and thus was put under monumental protection in 1983.

the picture on glass no. 2421 [left] shows the Kriegerdenkmal (soldiers' monument). Originally, the column was a distance mark for the Saxon Mail. When Baruth had become Prussian in 1815, the column was converted to a soldiers' monument. The monument was destroyed during World War II.
[http://daten2.verwaltungsportal.de/dateien/seitengenerator/sb_082012.pdf]