1949 · 1960 The village loses its lakeDedina príde o svoje pleso

After 1948 the fields were taken into a cooperative farm, as they were across the country, and the strip plots and shepherding that had shaped Štrba for six hundred years were reorganised inside a decade. At the same time the village lost the resort it had created: from 1949 to 1960 Štrbské Pleso was administered as part of the new town of Vysoké Tatry rather than as part of Štrba. From then on one name covered three separate places, which is why bookings still go wrong: the farming village of Štrba up on the saddle, Tatranská Štrba down at the railway station, and Štrbské Pleso the resort at 1,350 metres inside the national park.Po roku 1948 zobralo polia jednotné roľnícke družstvo — tak ako všade v krajine — a úzke pásiky i ovčiarstvo, ktoré Štrbu formovali šesťsto rokov, sa za desaťročie prerobili od základu. Zároveň obec prišla o letovisko, ktoré sama vytvorila: v rokoch 1949 – 1960 patrilo Štrbské Pleso pod nové mesto Vysoké Tatry, nie pod Štrbu. Odvtedy nesú jedno meno tri rôzne miesta, a preto sa dodnes mýlia rezervácie: roľnícka Štrba hore na sedle, Tatranská Štrba dolu pri stanici a Štrbské Pleso, letovisko vo výške 1 350 metrov vnútri národného parku.