Cossern

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Cossern
Municipality of Doberschau-Gaussig
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 5 ″  N , 14 ° 17 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 250–280 m above sea level NN
Residents : 83  (May 9, 2011)
Incorporation : October 1, 1934
Incorporated into: Naundorf
Postal code : 01877
Area code : 035930
Cossern

Cossern ( Sorbian Kosarnja ? / I ) is a place belonging to the municipality of Doberschau- Gau says in Upper Lusatia in Saxony . It is located on the western edge of the community consisting of 21 districts. 83 inhabitants live in Cossern (as of May 9, 2011). Audio file / audio sample

geography

Cossern is located in the Upper Lusatian region below the eastern slope of the Klosterberg , which belongs to the northwestern foothills of the Lusatian mountainous region. The Naundorfer Wasser , a right source brook of the Schwarzwasser, flows through the village .

Cossern is a row village consisting of two and three-sided farmsteads . The ground floors of the farmsteads were built from granodiorite quarry stones, which carry boarded, often covered with slate , half-timbered upper floors . In the valley floodplain there are cottage and garden food establishments.

At the end of the village in the direction of Medewitz there is a granodiorite block with an inscription on a retaining wall near the bridge over the Naundorfer Wasser. The Hungerstein carries a message from the farmer Michael Paulick about an increase in prices around 1800.

Neighboring places

Medewitz Zockau
Klosterberg Neighboring communities Gauzy
Tröbigau Naundorf

history

The first documentary mention was made in 1355 as Coserin . Up until 1764 there were ongoing land disputes between Medewitz (to Upper Lusatia) and Cossern (Meißnisch) over the course of the state border.

Cossern existed as an independent municipality until 1934, before it was incorporated into Naundorf, then together with the latter in 1994 to Gaussig and finally in 1999 to the municipality of Doberschau-Gauoss.

For his statistics on the Sorbian population of Lusatia, Arnošt Muka determined a population of 179 inhabitants in the 1880s, 90 of them Sorbs (50%). The village was on the southwestern edge of the Sorbian core language area. The language change mostly took place in the first half of the 20th century, so in 1956 Ernst Tschernik counted a Sorbian-speaking population of only 2.7% in the municipality of Naundorf, to which Cossern belonged, and a total of only 15 speakers, including three young people. In the meantime, the Sorbian language has completely disappeared from everyday local life. Cossern is due to its former affiliation to Naundorf the only district of Doberschau-Gau sole outside the official Sorbian settlement area .

Economy and Infrastructure

The main source of income for the Cosserner population is traditionally agriculture.

There are direct bus connections from Cossern to Bischofswerda and Demitz-Thumitz . The Görlitz – Dresden railway line runs past the village about a kilometer away, but the nearest train stations are in Demitz-Thumitz (about 4 km) and Seitschen (about 6 km away). The closest grocery store is in the Demitz-Thumitz district of Wölkau.

literature

  • Cossern. In: Lausitzer Bergland around Pulsnitz and Bischofswerda (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 40). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1983, pp. 133-134.
  • Cossern . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 5th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1818, p. 94.
  • Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi : Cossern . In: Earth description of the Electoral and Ducal Saxon Lands . 2nd Edition. 1st volume, 1790, pp. 598 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Cossern / Kosarnja  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Cossern in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  • Cossern , website of the municipality of Doberschau-Gaussig

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Doberschau-Gaussig. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on February 2, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Lausitzer Bergland around Pulsnitz and Bischofswerda (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 40). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1983, p. 133.
  3. ↑ Crossern. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
  4. ^ Cossern . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 5th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1818, p. 94.
  5. ^ Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi : Cossern . In: Earth description of the Electoral and Ducal Saxon Lands . 2nd Edition. 1st volume, 1790, pp.  598 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ Ernst Tschernik: The development of the Sorbian population . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954.
  7. ^ Ludwig Elle: Language policy in the Lausitz . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1995, p. 247 .