Cossen (Lunzenau)

Cossen City of Lunzenau Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 28 ″  N , 12 ° 46 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	238 m
Area :	2.11 km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Postal code :	09328
Area code :	037383
Location of Cossen in Saxony

Cossen is a district of the town of Lunzenau in the Saxon district of central Saxony . It was incorporated into Lunzenau on January 1, 1994.

geography

Geographical location and traffic

Cossen station, reception building (2015)

Göhrener Viaduct

Cossen is located in the east of the city of Lunzenau on a plateau between the valleys of the Chemnitz in the east and the Zwickauer Mulde in the west. The confluence of the Chemnitz in the Zwickauer Mulde forms the northern tip of the Cossener Flur. This is where the lines of the disused railway lines Glauchau – Wurzen (Muldentalbahn) and Wechselburg – Küchwald (Chemnitztalbahn) meet. The Neukieritzsch – Chemnitz railway runs through Cossen itself and crosses the Zwickauer Mulde north of the village via the Göhrener viaduct . The Cossen station, opened in 1872, was located south of the village. It has not been used for passenger transport since 2005.

Neighboring places

	Goehren , Wechselburg
Großschlaisdorf		Goritzhain
	Hohenkirchen

history

Half-timbered houses in Cossen

The alley village of Cossen was mentioned as Cossin in 1280/1282 . Presumably the place was already inhabited by Slavs settling here around 1100. Subsequently, Cossen was probably settled around 1168 by Franks from the Palatinate and Hesse , who came to the country at the instigation of Dedo von Groitzsch . Originally, Cossen belonged to the property of the Zschillen monastery . This came in 1543 with the entire property to Duke Moritz von Sachsen , who immediately secularized it and exchanged it for the Lords of Schönburg for the places Hohnstein , Wehlen and Lohmen in today's Saxon Switzerland . Therefore, the name Wechselburg came up for the place and the monastery complex. Since then, Cossen has been run as the official village of the Schönburg lordship of Wechselburg , which belonged to the Lords of Schönburg under Wettin suzerainty. Cossen has always been parish to Hohenkirchen . As part of the administrative reorganization of the Kingdom of Saxony, Cossen was subordinated to the administration of the royal Saxon office of Rochlitz as part of the Schönburg feudal lordship of Wechselburg . In 1856 the municipality of Cossen came to the Burgstädt court office and in 1875 to the newly established Rochlitz administration . With the opening of the Neukieritzsch – Chemnitz railway in 1872, Cossen received its own train station south of the village. In the direction of Leipzig, the railway line crosses the Zwickauer Mulde over the Göhrener Viaduct , which is partly in the Cossener Flur.

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, the community of Cossen was incorporated into the Rochlitz district in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued in 1990 as the Saxon district of Rochlitz and in 1994 in the Mittweida district and in 2008 in Central Saxony district rose.

On January 1, 1994, Cossen was incorporated into Lunzenau. Between 2004 and 2006, the Leipzig – Chemnitz railway line via Bad Lausick was modernized to increase the maximum speed to 160 km / h. In this context, the Cossen train station was given up as an access point in 2005.

Web links

Commons : Cossen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cossen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Cossen on the website of the city of Lunzenau

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Cossen train station on www.sachsenschiene.net
2. ^ Cossen in the book "Geography for all Stands", p. 906
3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 82 f.
4. ^ The rule of Wechselburg in the State Archives of the Free State of Saxony
5. ^ The Rochlitz district administration in the municipal register 1900
6. ↑ Cossen on gov.genealogy.net