Cossen green

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Cossen green
City of Greiz
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 53 "  N , 12 ° 8 ′ 53"  E
Height : 366 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : July 1, 1999
Incorporated into: Vogtland Oberland
Postal code : 07973
Area code : 036621
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Location of Cossengrün in the city of Greiz
In the town
In the town

Cossengrün is a place in the district of Cossengrün / Hohndorf / Schönbach in the city of Greiz in the Greiz district in Thuringia .

location

Cossengrün is located east of the federal highway 92 from Plauen to Gera , 5 km south of Elsterberg . The district of the village lies in the Thuringian slate mountains and is bordered on three sides by the Thuringian-Saxon border.

history

On June 21, 1394, the place was first mentioned in a document as "Kositzgrune", a Slavic-German mixed name, which can be interpreted as a clearing settlement Kosik. In 1479 the cost green manor was mentioned, which later became the chamber property of the Count Reuss older line. In 1597 the estate's own quarry was mentioned. In 1715 the village received market rights. In 1864 Cossengrün had 79 houses in which 635 people lived. 25 businesses and one artist have settled in the village. On July 1, 1999, through the merger of Cossengrün, Pöllwitz , Bernsgrün , Arnsgrün, Hohndorf and Schönbach, the municipality of Vogtländisches Oberland was created . With the dissolution of the municipality of Vogtländisches Oberland, Cossengrün was incorporated into the city of Greiz on December 31, 2012.

Personalities

  • Dietrich Geyer (* 1928), historian
  • Otto Engau (1848–1925), engineer, innkeeper, creator of the Bismarck honor garden
  • Uwe Klos (* 1959) visual artist

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 49
  2. Klaus Müller: The population census in the Vogtländischen Oberland 1864 in Journal for Central German Family History, Issue 4/2013, Leipzig