Coswig (Saxony)

Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Meissen
Height :	118 m above sea level NHN
Area :	25.88 km 2
Residents:	20,739 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	801 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	01640
Area code :	03523
License plate :	MEI, GRH, RG, RIE
Community key :	14 6 27 010
LOCODE :	DE CWG
City structure:	5 city districts / districts
; City administration address :	Karrasstrasse 2 ; 01640 Coswig
Website :	www.coswig.de
Lord Mayor :	Thomas Schubert (independent)
Location of the city of Coswig in the district of Meißen

View of Soernewitz from the German Bosel . In the background the city of Coswig.

View of Brockwitz from the opposite bank of the Elbe, in the background the industrial area Industriestraße between Brockwitz and the city center of Coswig

Coswig (also Coswig near Dresden ) is a large district town in the Saxon district of Meißen . It is located on the Elbe , northwest of Dresden and has seamlessly merged with the same via Radebeul . The name is derived from altsorbischen word kos - blackbird - derived Kosovik then means blackbird area.

geography

Coswig is located in the densely populated Elbe valley between Meißen in the northwest and Radebeul or Dresden in the southeast.

Neighboring communities in the district of Meißen are Klipphausen , the city of Meißen , Moritzburg , the city of Radebeul and Weinböhla .

City structure

In addition to the core town, Coswig includes the districts of Kötitz (located on the Elbe), Neucoswig (in the north towards Friedewald), Brockwitz (with the district of Clieben ), Sörnewitz and Neusörnewitz (all west of Coswig-Mitte).

history

Coswig was originally a church village in which viticulture was practiced in the 15th century. After the connection to the Leipzig-Dresden Railway in 1839, the place grew increasingly so that exactly 100 years later it was declared a city.

As early as 1013 Brockwitz was first mentioned in a deed of ownership from King Heinrich II to the cathedral monastery of Meissen, as "Brochotinacethla".

In 1203 Kötitz was first mentioned in connection with a donation from Margrave Dietrich to the Altzella monastery under the name "villa Chottenwiz".

Sörnewitz was first mentioned in documents in 1205 as the mill town "Villa Sornuitz". In September 2005 the village celebrated its 800th anniversary.

1350 is the first documented mention of Coswig as "Koczwicz" in the feudal book of Friedrich des Strengen.

After 1556 the village of Kreyern fell into desolation, whose corridor now belongs to Coswig.

At the beginning of the National Socialist era in April 1933, 70 to 80 members of workers' organizations were interned and mistreated in the school gymnasium, 20 of whom were transferred to prisons in Dresden .

Coswig, with its districts of Kötitz, Brockwitz and Sörnewitz, was also surprised by the flood of the Elbe in August 2002 . The Elbe flood in 1845 had already flooded large parts of the urban area.

On May 25, 2009, the city received the title “ Place of Diversity ” awarded by the federal government .

From 2016 to 2017 Coswig was hit by a devastating series of fires, in which damage in the double-digit million range was caused. After the formation of a special commission by the Dresden Police Department, an alleged perpetrator who could be proven beyond doubt in at least one of the eight fires was arrested and charged in autumn 2017.

Industrial history

In 1884 Emil Nacke founded the Tännicht straw material factory , which became part of the United Strohstoff-Fabriken AG in 1885 . But Nacke is also considered the first Saxon automobile manufacturer (before August Horch ). He developed fire engines, buses and cars under the Coswiga brand . An automobile with a Phaeton body was delivered to a prince in Ethiopia as a state body .

The development of the Dresdner Schnellpressenfabrik began in Brockwitz in 1898 . In GDR times, this company belonged to the VEB Planeta (inventor of the planetary gear , the turning drum for double-sided printing in one pass and the aggregate construction of printing machines), a branch of the large graphic companies in Leipzig. After the fall of the Wall, it was taken over by Koenig & Bauer , the world's oldest printing press manufacturer. Today it is the main company for the production of sheet-fed offset printing machines for the group. KBA is the second largest printing press manufacturer after Heidelberg .

Incorporations

Neucoswig (also Weinberggemeinde) was incorporated on April 1, 1920 with a population of 1150 at that time. On April 1, 1935, the village of Kötitz, with a population of 2,096 at the time, was added as a district. The villages of Brockwitz and Sörnewitz were attached to the city of Coswig on July 1, 1950 as part of an administrative reform, but are still independent villages in terms of urban development.

Population development

Population development of Coswig (Saxony) from 1834 to 2018 according to the table below

Development of the population (from 1960 December 31) :

1834 - 00.399
1933 - 08,245
1939 - 09,858
1946 - 11,705 ¹
1950 - 17,401 ²
1960 - 17,649

1981 - 28,795
1984-28,310
1995 - 24,955
1997 - 25,260
1998-25,040
1999 - 24,673

2000-24,035
2001 - 23,435
2004 - 22,449
2007 - 22,057
2009 - 21,600
2010 - 20,977

2012 - 20,629
2013 - 20,560
2015 - 20,831
2016 - 20,841
2017 - 20,899
2018 - 20,817

Data source from 1998: State Statistical Office Saxony
¹ October 29th
² August 31st

In 2015, the city recorded a slight population growth for the first time since 1997 . This was around 1 percent compared to 2013.

politics

Local elections 2019

%

30th

20th

10

0

27.3%

25.4%

14.5%

10.2%

6.62%

5.0%

4.7%

3.7%

CBL ^c

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

% p

30th

25th

20th

15th

10

5

0

-5

-10

-8.5 % p

+ 25.4 % p

-4.4 % p

-7.2 % p

+2.12 % p

-4.5 % p

-0.2 % p

-3.2 % p

CBL ^c

Remarks:

^c Coswiger citizen list

Allocation of seats in 2019 in the Coswig city council

2

1

2

4th

1

8th

1

7th

2 1 2 4th 1 8th 1 7th

A total of 26 seats

Left : 2
SPD : 1
Greens : 2
CBL : 4
FDP : 1
CDU : 8
DSU : 1
AfD : 7

town hall

City council

The city council of the city of Coswig consists of 26 council members in the 2019–2024 election period; the distribution of seats is shown in the diagram opposite.

mayor

Thomas Schubert has been the mayor of Coswig since January 1, 2020 (independent).

His predecessors in office were Michael Reichenbach (CDU) from 1990 to 2008 and Frank Neupold (independent) from 2008 to 2019 .

Before his election as Lord Mayor, Thomas Schubert had been the mayor of Coswig Town Hall since October 2007. On November 3, 2019, the election for mayor took place. Thomas Schubert and David Steinmann ran as candidates for the AfD. According to the official final result, Thomas Schubert achieved 77.4% of the vote with a turnout of 52.8%. With his election as Lord Mayor, the mayoral position becomes vacant and has to be filled in 2020.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is taken from the earlier municipal seal, which has been verifiable since 1899. The city's coat of arms is described as follows: "A golden bunch of grapes floating in blue with a green vine leaf on the left side on the mangled brown rice, between two golden ears of grain growing out of natural green lawn and natural blue water." In addition to the wine tradition, the coat of arms also symbolizes the former Cultivation of brewing barley. The water symbolizes the Elbe, on the banks of which the city was built.

Town twinning

Coswig has been twinning with Ravensburg since 1990 and with the Czech town of Lovosice nad Labem (German Lobositz) since 1995 .

Finances

Coswig has been debt-free since December 30, 2019 and is therefore one of the few municipalities in the Free State of Saxony that can have a per capita debt of 0 euros (national average: 557 EUR per inhabitant). In 2004 the debt was just under 22.5 million euros.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Old church in Coswig

Catholic Church

Old Church (built in 1497, so that Coswig's oldest preserved building, major renovations 1611/12, ~ 1740)
Brockwitz baroque church
Peter-Pauls-Kirche (Neo-Renaissance, architect Woldemar Kandler , consecrated 1903)
Catholic Church "Heilig Kreuz" (architect Hermann Korneli, Berlin, consecrated November 20, 1994)
Manor "Rote Presse"
Karrasburg
Villa Teresa (1891–1895 residence of the composer Eugen d'Albert and his wife, the pianist Teresa Carreño )

Peter and Paul Church
Brockwitz Church
Villa Teresa Park
Karrasburg
Villa Teresa

View over the Elbe valley from the Boselspitze.
View over the Elbe to the Bosel massif

nature and landscape

Coswig is located at the northwestern exit of the Dresden Elbe valley expansion . To the west of Coswig, next to the Sörnewitz district, lies the Spaar Mountains with the viewpoint at the Boselspitze.

Friedewald
Hoher Stein (viewpoint in the Friedewald)
Boselspitze (viewpoint in the Spaar Mountains)
Lockwitzbach
Lost water

Memorial in front of the old church on Ravensburger Platz
Memorial complex at Dresdner Strasse and the corner of Bahnhofstrasse
Kurt Schlosser memorial

Memorials

Memorial for the victims of the First World War in front of the old church on Ravensburger Platz
Memorial stone in the corner of Dresdner Strasse and Bahnhofstrasse to the victims of fascism

Memorial stone at Dresdner Strasse 207 in the Brockwitz district to victims of Nazi terror

Memorial stone at Geschwister Scholl Platz in the Neucoswig district to the Scholl siblings

Memorial from 1975 on Kötitzer Strasse in the Kötitz district in memory of the mountaineer and resistance fighter Kurt Schlosser

societies

Coswiger Kanuverein eV
SV Elbland Coswig-Meißen
Coswiger FV
TuS Coswig 1920
SV Stahl Coswig
BSV Coswig
Coswiger fishing friends e. V.
SV Motor Soernewitz e. V.
Coswiger Carnival Club e. V.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Coswig (b Dresden) station is on the Berlin – Dresden and Leipzig – Dresden lines . From the latter, the Borsdorf – Coswig railway branches off in the urban area , which runs across Meißen-Triebischtal . Coswig is also intended as the end point of the Pirna – Coswig S-Bahn line .

Tram line 4 of the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe runs through Coswig and operates six stops in the city. The journey time from Coswig to Dresden city center is around 45 minutes by tram.

There is no Elbe bridge in Coswig. The next road bridges are the old Elbe bridge Meißen downstream and the Elbe bridge between Radebeul-Naundorf and Dresden-Niederwartha upstream, which was completed in 2012 .

In the district of Kötitz there is a ferry connection over the Elbe to Gauernitz . The ferry operator is the Meißen transport company . The ferry operates on a fixed schedule and can transport pedestrians, cyclists and motorized two-wheelers .

Federal roads do not run through Coswig city area, but two state roads. The Saxon State Road 82 leads under the name Dresdner Straße coming from Meißen through Sörnewitz and Brockwitz to Coswig and on to the Radebeul city limits, where it merges into Meißner Straße . From here the S 84 branches off near the train station , which first runs as a main street through the city center and then as Weinböhlaer Straße to the northern neighboring community, where it turns into Dresdner Straße . The next motorway junction is currently Dresden-Neustadt on federal motorway 4 in the Dresden district of Kaditz

Healthcare

Specialized hospital

The Coswig Specialist Hospital is a center for pulmonology, allergology, respiratory medicine as well as thoracic and vascular surgery with the Recura clinics as sponsors. As an academic teaching hospital of the Dresden University Hospital, it is included in the training of students. The chief physician of the internal medicine / pulmonology department also holds a professorship for internal medicine / pulmonology at the Dresden University Hospital. In 2013 the clinic was certified as a thoracic center by the German Society for Thoracic Surgery.

education

Coswig has a total of three primary schools, two secondary schools, a grammar school and a Protestant school, which teaches at the primary and secondary level.

Leonard Frank High School

The Coswig "Peter Rosseger" support center has two school locations that focus on learning and language .

economy

The city of Coswig is an important regional business location for some international companies. For example for the automotive supplier TMD Friction , the module manufacturer ProContain belonging to the ALHO Group or the world-wide producing concrete sleeper manufacturer Rail One , as well as numerous other companies.

The rural foothills of Coswig are home to a large number of agricultural companies. Local businesses have been concentrating on the cultivation of the aronia berry for several years . With an area of 63 hectares, Coswig is the largest contiguous aronia berry cultivation area in Germany. But the cultivation of wine and grain has always shaped the overall image of Coswig.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Lothar Toller (1891–1956), painter and etcher
Walter Birnbaum (1893–1987), theologian
Carl Schröder (1904–1997), puppeteer, puppet maker, director
Elisabeth Reichelt (1910–2001), chamber singer and coloratura soprano
Gottfried Brendel (1913–1965), civil engineer
Heinz Werner (1928–2019), porcelain artist
Claus Weidensdorfer (1931–2020), painter and graphic artist
Monika Mrklas (* 1942), cross-country skier and racing cyclist
Hans-Ulrich Thomale (* 1944), soccer player and coach
Gerhard Schöne (* 1952), songwriter

Personalities who have worked on site

Nickel von Karras , feudal lord and founder of the first Coswig church (from the noble Karras family )
Emil Nacke (1843–1933), first Saxon car maker
Reginald Pierson (1846–1906), Medical Councilor
Teresa Carreño (1853–1917), pianist, composer
Eugen d'Albert (1864–1932), composer
Carl Romer (1872–1949), horticultural pioneer
Renate Koch (* 1943), politician

literature

Cornelius Gurlitt : Coswig (with Neucoswig). In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 41. Issue: Administrative Authority Meißen-Land . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1923, p. 115.