Cospudes
Cospuden was a district of Markkleeberg . In 1974 it had to give way to lignite mining in the south of Leipzig. The Cospuden Lake , which was later artificially created by flooding the open-cast mine site, was named after him.
history
The name of the settlement on the Batschke river was derived from Heinricius de Kozebude , who became the owner of the estate in 1216. The landowners changed frequently over the centuries. After the knights Pflugk (see Volkmarsdorf and Windorf ) and Dieskau, it belonged to the von Schletter and von Ponickau families in the 18th century, to the Weidlich family in the mid-19th century and their daughter Clara Vollsach from 1893. In the peasant cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach from 1742, Cospuden is mentioned together with Knauthain .
In 1599 Otto von Dieskau built a paper mill that was responsible for the production of all Saxon chancellery chests . Until 1856, Cospuden belonged to the electoral or royal Saxon district office of Leipzig . Since 1875 Cospuden was part of the Leipzig administration . In 1875 Cospuden belonged to Gautzsch , with whom the town of Markkleeberg came to be in 1934. Because of the lignite deposits in the Cospuden / Zöbigker settlement area, the residents had to leave their homes by 1974. They moved to other parts of Markkleeberg or to Leipzig .
From 1981 onwards, lignite was extracted from the Cospuden opencast mine by turning the Zwenkau opencast mine to the north . In addition to the Cospuden settlement, which fell victim to demolition in 1974 due to the advancing lignite mining, the Lauer estate , the floodplain reserve diocese and Upper Wood and sections of the Batschke disappeared from the map. Measured against the enormous destruction of the environment, the mining capacity of the open-cast mine was low, which is why, after the political change in 1989/90, there was widespread resistance to continuing lignite mining. On January 11, 1990, the citizens' initiative Stop Cospuden was founded, which organized a star march to the open pit on March 18, 1990 . Over 10,000 people took part in it. As a result, regular operation of the opencast mine was stopped on April 20, 1990.
The open pit was flooded between 1993 and 2000 with water from the Zwenkau and Profen opencast mines . In 2000 the lake was officially opened to the public. This happened as part of the Expo 2000. The Cospudener Lake that was created in this way is one of the most attractive local recreation areas in Leipzig today.
literature
- Cospudes . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 5th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1818, p. 90.
Web links
- Cospuden in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , pp. 60 f.
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 52 ″ E