Bad Köstritz

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Bad Köstritz
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Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '  N , 12 ° 1'  E

Basic data
State : Thuringia
County : Greiz
Fulfilling municipality : for Caaschwitz
for Hartmannsdorf
Height : 203 m above sea level NHN
Area : 16.93 km 2
Residents: 3514 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 208 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 07586
Area code : 036605
License plate : GRZ, ZR
Community key : 16 0 76 003
LOCODE : DE KZZ
City structure: 3 districts

City administration address : 		Heinrich-Schütz-Strasse 4
07586 Bad Köstritz
Website : www.stadt-bad-koestritz.de
Mayor : Dietrich Heiland ( CDU )
Location of the city of Bad Köstritz in the district of Greiz
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Bad Köstritz (until 1926 only Köstritz ) is located on the river Weisse Elster in the Thuringian district of Greiz , north of Gera . The country town is known for the Köstritzer black beer .

geography

City structure

In addition to the core town (with Pohlitz ), the districts of Gleina and Reichardtsdorf belong to the city .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Caaschwitz , Hartmannsdorf (near Gera) (not to be confused with Hartmannsdorf (near Eisenberg) , a community north of Caaschwitz) and Kraftsdorf in the district of Greiz, Silbitz in the Saale-Holzland district and the independent city of Gera .

history

St. Leonhard (Bad Köstritz)
In the landscape park
A temple in the park

The place Köstritz was first mentioned as Kostricz , a Slavic settlement, on a deed of attachment in 1364. A castle existed since the middle of the 13th century. It was probably on the Kirchberg. From there, the system was able to control and secure the Elster valley and the river crossing. The city emerged from two medieval mansions.

At first the city belonged to the margraviate of Meißen , in 1364 Köstritz came to the Reuss . From 1689 to 1704 a new castle was built in place of the castle . In 1690 the Reussian Counts von Schleiz (the Reuss younger line ) founded the Paragium Reuss-Köstritz for a side branch Reuss-Schleiz -Köstritz , which existed until 1918.

Around 1804, the castle park in the Elster-Aue was designed in the style of an English landscape garden.

Since 1543 the commercial "serving" of beer of the Fürstlich-Reussschen brewery in the lower tavern (today: Goldener Löwe ) has been allowed. The dahlia grower Christian Deegen founded a nursery in 1826 and thus initiated the town's reputation as a city of flowers. Christian Glenck opened the Heinrichshall saltworks on the Pohlitzer Flur in 1831 , although it ceased production in 1909 and was merged with the chemical factory built in 1845. In 1845 Adolf Sturm set up a bathing establishment, which was significantly expanded in 1865 by building a new spa house and converting it into a public limited company. The agricultural institute of Dr. Hans Settegast settled in Köstritz in 1886. From this, with an institute building erected in 1903, the Höhere Gärtner-Lehranstalt developed , which was relocated to a hospital in 1943 and closed in 1945. At this institute u. a. Ferdinand Tutenberg passed his exam.

In 1911, the new Thuringian women's asylum was inaugurated on Goldbach. A new school building was built in Pohlitz in 1912. In 1919, the development of the Gebind as a residential area began. From 1926 the place was allowed to call itself Bad Köstritz . The Thuringian Ministry awarded him then in 1927 officially the city charter . In 1933 the Elster regulation began from Gera - Thieschitz via Bad Köstritz to Caaschwitz , connected with it the first big changes in Köstritzer Park. This was followed by the construction of an open-air swimming pool with a 5 m diving platform in 1936 in connection with the Elster regulation at Paradies .

Since the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, forced laborers from the countries occupied by Germany had to do forced labor in the vital chemical plant and in the black beer brewery. In 1942, the former head of the Thuringian women's asylum, Werner Sylten, was murdered in the Dachau concentration camp . From 1943 Bad Köstritz was a hospital town . On the night of April 13, 1945, a column of prisoners from Buchenwald concentration camp was driven through the town on a death march , with 43 people losing their lives due to the terror of the SS . Those initially buried in various places were reburied in the cemetery and honored with a memorial. A memorial stone at the state regular school in Hergerstrasse also commemorates her.

In April 1945 US troops occupied the place, at the beginning of July they were replaced by the Red Army . Bad Köstritz was thus incorporated into the Soviet occupation zone , and from 1949 into the GDR.

In 1948 the Princely Brewery was nationalized. In 1948 the reopening of the Kurhaus as a rheumatism sanatorium could be celebrated. In 1953, a bridge of peace over the Elster with a span of approx. 800 meters was inaugurated as part of a new trunk road through the park - the first major construction site in the city after 1945. In 1969 the west wing of the palace was demolished, in 1972 the main wing. The first joint dahlia festival of the Bad Köstritz community association was celebrated in the park in 1979. In 1985 the Heinrich Schütz Memorial was reconstructed and re-opened on the occasion of the composer's 400th birthday.

In 1990 the Kurhaus was closed and demolished seven years later. The residential area Am Rosenhügel and the residential parks Am Birkenhain and Am Erlicht have been built since 1993. The modernized leisure and recreational pool and a beach volleyball facility were opened in 1998. A year later, the Karlskrona senior citizens' residence opened on the site of the former Kurhaus.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1994, Reichardtsdorf and Gleina (near Bad Köstritz) were incorporated.

Population development

Development of the population (from December 31, 1994) :

  • 1849: 1337
  • 1885: 1756
  • 1933: 2489
  • 1939: 2550
  • 1994: 3472
  • 1995: 3547
  • 1996: 3615
  • 1997: 3694
  • 1998: 3750
  • 1999: 3922
  • 2000: 3965
  • 2001: 4001
  • 2002: 4003
  • 2003: 3964
  • 2004: 3998
  • 2005: 3964
  • 2006: 3916
  • 2007: 3855
  • 2008: 3777
  • 2009: 3732
  • 2010: 3743
  • 2011: 3707
  • 2012: 3642
  • 2013: 3633
  • 2014: 3613
  • 2015: 3628
  • 2016: 3593
  • 2017: 3571
  • 2018: 3513
  • 2019: 3514
Data source from 1994: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

The palace in the city center, today the seat of the city administration

Bad Köstritz is a fulfilling municipality in Caaschwitz and Hartmannsdorf .

City council

Since the local elections on May 25, 2014 , the city ​​council has been composed as follows:

Political party CDU The left FWG
Seats 9 3 4th
Share of votes 53.9% 22.1% 24.0%

The turnout was 54.3% (+0.6% p).

badges and flags

Bad Köstritz coat of arms

The city of Bad Köstritz describes the coat of arms it uses as follows: "Silver lion facing left-backwards, double-tailed and armored in red, in the right paw the straight sword, the left leaning on the shield on a blue background, the friends connected in friendship" loyal hands "". Heraldic correct ". In gold on the left of turned resist sighted doppelschwänziger rotbewehrter silver lion with black mane and head in the right paw a golden sword with black guard, left at a floating shield dormant, is faithful in blue two hands in natural colors"
for Another form of the coat of arms is the following description of the coat of arms : "In blue a left-facing, opposing, double-tailed, red-armored silver lion, standing on two asymmetrical silver flat steps, in the right paw a silver sword, the left on a blue shield, in it two loyal silver hands ."

The flag is a tricolor striped lengthways in strips of equal width with the colors black, white, blue (from left to right).

Partnerships

Culture and sights

Truss
Heinrich Schütz House
Gate construction of the castle, which was destroyed in 1969-72
Rye mill
Portal of the brewery in Köstritz

The Reussische Fürstenstrasse begins in Bad Köstritz and ends in the spa town of Bad Lobenstein .

Buildings

The city can boast many very well-preserved half-timbered buildings.

Most of the former four-sided structure of the palace was demolished during the GDR era.

The rye mill is still waiting to find its way back to its old beauty.

Museums

The most important attraction is the Heinrich Schütz House . It was founded in 1985 as a research and memorial site and renovated in 2000. There is a permanent exhibition for the composer here. In addition to its museum and scientific function, the house also sees itself as a place for musical performances - its own concert room offers space for 50 visitors. The house is also the meeting point of the Schütz Academy eV , a cultural association that deals with the lifestyle of the 17th century.

A Julius Sturm memorial room was set up in 2003 in the attic of the Köstritzer Palais , the current seat of the city administration . One such had already existed from 1918 to 1945.

In the center of the city behind the Haus des Gastes is the Dahlia Center Bad Köstritz . There is a permanent exhibition on topics related to the dahlia . In the summer half of the year you can see natural species of dahlias, old varieties and new breeds in the show and teaching garden behind . It houses the German Dahlia Archive .

Parks and gardens

  • There is a small animal enclosure in the listed former castle park .
  • The Rosarium , the former spa park, is located across from today's senior citizens' residence.
  • Behind the Dahlia Center Bad Köstritz is the show and teaching garden for dahlias.

Sports

The Köstritzer Throwing Day has been an annual sporting event since 1995, in which the best German athletes compete in the throwing disciplines of athletics (discus throw, shot put, javelin throw, etc.).

Regular events

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal highway 7 leads east around the city , via which the junction Gera of the federal highway 4 can be reached about 6 km away . Also in the east of the city is the train station on the Leipzig – Gera – Saalfeld line , where regional trains and express trains stop.

The road-bound local public transport is served by RVG Regionalverkehr Gera / Land with 2 regular lines and a school bus line. Lines 203 and 204 together form a half-hourly service to Gera and two-hour service to Hermsdorf and Eisenberg during the week . At the weekend there is an hourly service to Gera in addition to the two-hour service to Eisenberg.

line Line course Frequency (Mon-Fri)
203 Gera - Bad Köstritz - Crossen - Eisenberg Every half hour (Gera - Bad Köstritz) with line 204 every
two hours (Bad Köstritz - Eisenberg)
204 Gera - Bad Köstritz - Bad Klosterlausnitz - Hermsdorf Every half hour (Gera - Bad Köstritz) with line 203
every two hours (Bad Köstritz - Hermsdorf)
205 Gera / Bad Köstritz - Rüdersdorf - Harpersdorf - Oberndorf School traffic

The Elster cycle path leads through Bad Köstritz .

Established businesses

  • The Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei GmbH is one of the oldest black beer breweries in Germany.
  • The Bad Köstritz chemical plant is located in the Heinrichshall industrial park.
  • The biogas plant in Bad Köstritz generates biogas from up to 60,000 tons of biowaste from the food industry and gastronomy every year.

Public facilities

The Thuringian fire brigade and disaster control school is located in Bad Köstritz.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked on site

literature

  • Rudolf Hundt: Goethe and the geology of East Thuringia. ; Cultural Office of the City of Gera; Gera 1949; Pp. 10-32.
  • Christel Russe: Publications Museum für Naturkunde Gera der Stadt Gera Issue 21/22 - Contributions to the geology, flora and fauna of East Thuringia XXI / XXII. Museum für Naturkunde Gera, Gera 1994/95, pp. 43–72.
  • Erhard Lemm, Angelika and Frank Schenke, Siegfried Mues: The Reussian Fürstenstrasse. Lemm-Werbung, Gera 1995, pp. 12, 19, ISBN 3-931635-00-7 .
  • Erhard Lemm, Angelika and Frank Schenke: Bad Köstritz - portrait of a city in Thuringia. Verlag Erhard Lemm, Gera 2000, ISBN 3-931635-14-7 .
  • Christian Danneger: Weisse Elster upwards - A hiking guide. Forum Verlag Leipzig Buch, Leipzig 2009, pp. 59–61, ISBN 978-3-931801-66-3 .

Movies

  • ARD, MDR: Thuringia - picture book Germany - from the upper Saale to Reussische Fürstenstrasse ; UAP Video GmbH; Leipzig 2005; DVD, Europe-Pal, 4: 3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and prehistoric living spaces Jenzig-Verlag 2001 p. 163 ISBN 3-910141-43-9
  3. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. In the series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser. Volume 8 Thuringia, Erfurt 2003, p. 109, ISBN 3-88864-343-0
  4. ↑ 2014 city council election at wahlen.thueringen.de, accessed on August 6, 2014
  5. ^ Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen (Ed.): Museums in Thuringia . Frankfurt a. M. 1995, p. 30 .

Web links

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