Cotta (Dresden)

Cotta with Friedrichstadt-Südwest district and statistical district No. 91 of Dresden
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Coordinates	51 ° 3 '23 "  N , 13 ° 41' 15"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '23 "  N , 13 ° 41' 15"  E.
height	108  m above sea level NN
surface	1.97 km²
Residents	10,937 (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density	5552 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation	Jan. 1, 1903
Post Code	01157
prefix	0351
Website	www.dresden.de
Borough	Cotta
Transport links
Federal road
tram	1, 2, 12
bus	70, 80, 91, 92, 93, 94

View over Lübecker Strasse to the Cotta town hall

Cotta is a district in the west of the Saxon capital Dresden and is located in the city district of the same name .

Founded as a Slavic village on the Elbe , it was first mentioned in a document in 1328. The incorporation to Dresden took place in 1903 together with some neighboring places. The confluence of the Weißeritz is located in the corridor of the district, which is now centrally located in the west of the state capital . Cotta is predominantly characterized by Wilhelminian-style buildings; only a few houses of the historic village center have survived.

geography

location

The Cotta district is located in the west of Dresden, about four kilometers from the city center, the inner old town . Neighboring districts are Briesnitz in the north-west, Leutewitz in the west, Gorbitz in the south-west, Löbtau in the south-east and Friedrichstadt , which is already one of the Dresden suburbs , in the east. In the north the district is bounded by the Elbe ; on the other side of the river are Übigau and Kaditz . The district is separated from the river by the facilities along the Berlin – Dresden railway line , in particular by the 17 meter high drainage hill of the Friedrichstadt marshalling yard that begins at the Dresden-Cotta stop .

The eastern border of the district is marked in sections by the canalised Weißeritz , which flows into the Elbe below the Flügelweg bridge . The district is located on the western edge of the valley floor of the Elbe valley at heights between 102  m above sea level. NN on the river bank and 142  m above sea level. NN in the Arthur-Weineck-Straße area. The terrain rises steadily towards the southwest.

As a result of the incorporation of large rural communities , Cotta is the central district in the west of Dresden. The Dresden city limit to Radebeul in the north is just as far away at three kilometers as the city limit to Freital ( Pesterwitz district ) to the south.

District and statistical district

Borders of the statistical district Cotta (black), which extends over parts of the districts Cotta (dark green) and Friedrichstadt (light green)

The actual, historically grown district of Cotta coincides in terms of area with the Cotta district . The district boundary runs through the Elbe and then from the mouth of the Weißeritz directly to the west, above the railway bridge over the Erzgebirge river also directly in the Weißeritz. From the level of Werkstättenstrasse, it continues over Lübecker Strasse and then between Gohliser and Rudolf-Renner-Strasse. Then it turns west onto Bramschstrasse and continues in Weidigtbach. At the western end of Weidentalstrasse it bends to the north and shortly afterwards to the east and follows Steinbacher Strasse to Gottfried-Keller-Strasse, on which it then turns.

To the east of the Leutewitz sports field at the windmill , the Cotta district boundary juts out to the west and also encloses Klaus-Groth-Straße. Then it goes west along Ockerwitzer Straße almost to Altleutewitz and then runs towards Herweghstraße. From there it runs on Warthaer Straße towards the city center to the confluence of Wilhelm-Raabe-Straße. It then leads approximately to Gottfried-Keller-Platz and then to An der Wasserschöpf street . Then it follows the Meißner Landstrasse in a direction out of town to the level of Seusslitzer Strasse. Here it turns at a right angle between the Junge Generation theater and the Briesnitz park towards the Elbe.

Within the urban district of the same name , Cotta has also been a statistical district since the reorganization of the Dresden urban area in 1991 , the boundaries of which largely coincide with the district boundaries. In the east, however, the area of ​​the statistical district extends far into a largely uninhabited part of Friedrichstadt and extends to Wernerplatz; the district boundaries in this area mark the Weißeritz between Werkstättenstrasse and Wernerstrasse as well as the Lübecker Strasse. The official name of the statistical district is therefore Cotta with Friedrichstadt-Südwest . On the other hand, a small part of the north-west of the Cotta district, including the Young Generation Theater , is already in the statistical district of Briesnitz .

geology

View from the Flügelweg bridge over the Cotta river bank ; on the far right the Young Generation Theater

The Weißeritz at Hamburger Straße marks the border between the districts of Cotta and Friedrichstadt.

Cotta is located on a bulging slope of the Elbe, which, after flowing around the Ostragehege and the Übigau district , reaches the left edge of the Elbe Valley at Cotta and forms a steep bank downstream to Kemnitz . The Elbe meadows are therefore very narrow on the 600-meter-long Cottaer Ufer. The low-lying areas of the district close to the Elbe are shaped by the fluviatilically eroded valley and the sediments of the river.

The moderately rising slopes in the southwest, in the subsurface of which there is a thick layer of plan, mark the transition to the Meißner Hochland , a plateau on the left Elbe starting just a few kilometers further west in the area of ​​the Mobschatz village . The soil in the vicinity of the Tonbergstrasse, named after it, is clayey .

In Cotta, near Werkstättenstrasse, the piped Weidigtbach flows into the Weißeritz. This drains, partly via its tributary Gorbitzbach , a more than six square kilometers large catchment area between Omsewitz , Altfranken and Wölfnitz .

Structural character

Starting from the historic village center Altcotta , whose continued existence is protected by an official conservation statute , the built-up area of ​​the district gradually grew. Especially to the south-east, south-west and north-west, it expanded along existing traffic routes in the direction of the respective neighboring districts or outgrew them. In some cases, planned settlements were created, which can be seen from the parallel streets, for example in the areas of Rudolf-Renner- / Klopstockstraße and Zöllmener / Weidentalstraße. The high proportion of coffee grinder houses is striking . To this day, the densely built-up, former workers' residential district is predominantly shaped by the founding era. Only a small number of old farms have survived along Hebbelstrasse . For more than 100 years there have been various allotment gardens between the individual Cotta districts .

Population geography

The statistical district Cotta has nearly 10,000 inhabitants who live in an area of ​​almost 2 square kilometers. These values ​​result in a population density of more than 4,900 inhabitants / km², which is in the upper average compared to other Dresden districts. The neighboring districts of Mickten and Briesnitz are less densely populated, but the density increases towards the south towards Löbtau and Gorbitz.

The average length of living in the district is 7.6 years, the average age of the population is 39.5 years. The proportion of 20 to 30 year olds is on average just under 6%, around a quarter higher than in the rest of the city. Around a fifth of households are made up of families with children under the age of 18. In 2005, twelve people were born for every 1,000 inhabitants; 14.1% of the population are not adults.

history

Surname

The village was first mentioned in a document dated February 27, 1328 as Kottowe . At that time, the landlord Hermann the Elder sold a third of the corridors, and a little later the manor in the area of today's high school to the Meißner Domstift . The place name is of Old Sorbian origin. It can be derived from Kot or Chot , the name of a Slavic locator , and thus means, for example, the village of the Chot .

The place name developed in the course of the 14th century via the forms Kothow (1350) and Kottaw (1397) to Cotta , which was first mentioned in 1444 in this current spelling. In 1485 the location was called zu Kotten , in the 16th century it was called Kuttaw (1507) and Kotthe (1517). The village is mentioned again as Cotta in 1768 and has kept this spelling since then.

District and shopping center at the "Frosch" in Altcotta

The neighborhood of the village center around the Weidigtbach, which at that time still flows directly into the Elbe, was very damp and swampy in earlier times and had to be laboriously drained over the centuries in order to be able to use it for agricultural purposes. Therefore, the village received, similar to the neighboring Cow Löbte , early on the mocking intentioned nickname Frog -Cotte .

In the 19th century, the Cotta people picked up the name, reassessed it and viewed it as part of their identity . That was the name of the village restaurant, Zum Frosch, opened in 1862, and the Cotta town hall was also decorated with stone amphibians. The tradition is maintained to this day; the Cottaer district newspaper is called Froschpost .

Prehistoric settlement

The area around Cotta was already settled in the Neolithic Age. This is indicated by settlement finds. Extensive archaeological investigations took place in the 1990s. A female skeleton came to light, the age of which has been dated to over 7,000 years. The young Stone Age woman was given the name Rebecca .

The type of burial is very atypical for the time of the linear ceramics . In contrast to comparable skeletons, she was found in a stretched position and prone position, with parts of the skull and facial bones missing. In addition, there was a large stone in the pelvic area. The remains of the skeleton are stored in the Klotzscher depot building of the State Museum of Prehistory .

middle Ages

Facade detail on a garden pavilion near the now demolished Cottaer Hofbrauhaus

Old Cotta building on Lübecker Strasse opposite the town hall

The Rundling Cotta was founded several centuries before it was first mentioned by Slavic-speaking settlers. It was located in the area of ​​today's Altcotta and was expanded over time by a row of houses along Hebbelstraße. To the east were the villages of Rostagk and Wernten , which probably had to be abandoned after an Elbe flood in the 15th century and became devastation . In 1338 a mill in Cotta is mentioned.

Those goods that had initially remained in the possession of secular landlords in the 14th century were also transferred to the Meissen Cathedral Monastery between 1416 and 1512, which now exercised sole lordship . The manor, which the cathedral monastery had acquired from Hermann the Elder in 1328, was meanwhile expanded to become a Vorwerk . Cotta was subordinate to the Bishop of Meissen and was in the district of the episcopal court Briesnitz. Cotta was also parish after Briesnitz, and the Cotta children also went to school there. The church paths of the villages of Wölfnitz and Löbtau, which also belong to the Briesnitz Parish , and which ran along today's Gottfried-Keller-Strasse and Cossebauder / Lübecker Strasse, led across the Cottaer Flur as early as the Middle Ages.

Modern times

In the middle of the 16th century, following the Reformation , there was a major upheaval; the property was redistributed. So the liquidation of the Vorwerk and the leasing of the attached land to local farmers took place after Cotta and the surrounding villages had passed from Catholic property to direct electoral property. From then on Cotta belonged to the office and later to the administrative authority of Dresden .

Originally, the block and striped corridor of Cotta was much larger than in modern times and expanded to the east into what is now Friedrichstadt's corridor area. The reason for the downsizing was the drastic expansion of the Ostravorwerk and the connection of large estates from surrounding villages in 1568. The corridors were enlarged to the west up to the Weidigtbach in Cotta, so that the village center Altcotta is only 200 meters from the eastern Cotta corridor border away. Cotta lost about 100 hectares of its area and shrank to 157 hectares, which are given for the year 1900. The residents were compensated for this, however, financially or with fields of the dissolved, formerly episcopal Vorwerk Briesnitz. As a result, Cotta developed into a farming village, and later cottagers and gardeners also settled there .

The so-called Cotta hunger stones also existed in the 16th century . These are three large field stones in the river bed of the Elbe, which only protrude above the surface of the water when the water is extremely low. They were placed in the Elbe as a reminder of the great famine caused by drought at that time. The middle stone bears the year 1630 as an inscription.

Similar to its neighboring towns, Cotta was also regularly hit by war and destruction, especially during the Seven Years War . However, the village was always rebuilt.

Cotta was persecuted by witches in 1711 . Georg Kirsten and his wife got involved in witch trials on charges of holding a dragon.

industrialization

In the 19th century, numerous industrial companies sprang up in Löbtau and Friedrichstadt. This led to a strong population increase. Cotta, which was little affected by industrialization itself, quickly developed into a workers' residence. Between 1870 and 1890 the population increased sixfold; Around 1900 more than 10,000 people lived in Cotta, which had become one of the most populous rural communities in Saxony. Many new roads were laid; those in the east-west direction were named after villages in the area, the streets in the north-south direction were named after German poets.

Schanzenstrasse (1899)

During the period of rapid growth, accompanied by enormous property speculation, numerous new homes were built. These are almost exclusively the mentioned coffee grinder houses ; cotta and its neighboring districts are still characterized by those multi-family apartment buildings today. Some of them were built on the site of a ski jumping hill that was leveled in 1875 and that was raised by the Prussian Army in 1866 during the German War on Lerchenberg . In this way, the so-called Schanzenviertel was created around Rudolf-Renner-Straße, which was formerly known as Schanzenstraße and extends as far as Löbtau.

Evangelical Church of the Savior

The increase in population also brought about other changes. So Cotta left the school association with Briesnitz in 1869 and built his first school building, which had to be expanded several times in 1873 and 1880 and supplemented by a second building in 1889. Further Cotta schoolhouses were built later. A separate church building was also necessary. This half-timbered building was built on Hebbelstrasse in 1895 as an interim solution with 600 seats and equipped with a Jehmlich organ , and around 1905 a bell tower, which no longer exists, was added. The interim church remained in operation until the Heilandskirche was completed in 1927 and has been used commercially since then. Around 1900 the community bought the new Cotta town hall .

After Cotta had received a connection to the Berlin – Dresden railway line in 1875 , it was relatively late, on April 22, 1900, to set up a tram connection to Dresden city center. This line of the Dresden tram company initially ended at the Schusterhaus and was extended in 1906 via Stetzsch and Gohlis to Cossebaude . Three years later, the transport company at the time completed the connecting route via today's Rudolf-Renner-Straße to Löbtau.

The Cotta residents also clearly felt the disadvantages of progress. Between 1862 and 1915 consisted am Lerchenberg a knacker who completed by the 1910 Municipal Livestock and slaughterhouse by Hans Erlwein in Great Ostragehege ceased operations a few years later. The Cotta residents suffered from the smell of carcass disposal as well as from the fact that the fertilizer export company, which emptied the Dresden lavatory pits, poured a large part of the faeces near Cotta into the Elbe. It was not until 1910 that the alluvial sewer system for the Kaditz sewage works went into operation.

Due to the construction of the railway line at 26er Ring in Dresden city center, the course of the Weißeritz had to be diverted in a westerly direction in 1893 and relocated to Cotta. Since Cotta was henceforth directly at the mouth of a significant outflow of the Ore Mountains, the risk of flooding increased considerably. As early as the end of July 1897, this caused severe flooding and major damage in Cotta.

Commemorative plaque for the construction work of Cotta workers at the Volkshaus

Overall, the workers' home was a relatively poor community. In 1900 Cotta collected only 5 marks per inhabitant in taxes. Compared with the values ​​of Dresden or Blasewitz , which were 18.50 marks and 38 marks, respectively, this is a very low value. Unlike, for example, in the wealthy villa colony of Blasewitz, the Cotta residents' resistance to their impending incorporation into Dresden , which took place on January 1, 1903, was very limited.

Due to the high proportion of workers, Cotta became a center of the workers' movement after 1900 , especially of social democracy . The Volkshaus Cotta was built on Hebbelstrasse in 1925 as a meeting place. In 1929 the Hebbelbad was expanded, and later cooperative settlements were built. In addition, Cotta became a traffic junction after the wing bridge was built. Since then, the largest north-south connection in the western part of the city and Bundesstraße 6 and other main roads have crossed in the district area.

During and after the Second World War

In the course of the various air raids on Dresden during the Second World War , around 100 apartments in the Cotta district were destroyed in 1945; Compared to other, more centrally located districts of Dresden, however, these losses were extremely small. 98 civilian victims of these bombing attacks are buried in the Cotta cemetery.

During the GDR era , the intact old buildings deteriorated more and more because the financial means for maintenance were lacking. Some houses had to be demolished or closed because they were in disrepair. Since at the same time the attractiveness of the prefabricated buildings erected elsewhere increased, a sharp decline in population set in, which could not be cushioned by the construction of fewer new buildings in Cotta around 1965.

A comprehensive wave of renovations only started after the fall of the Wall . Most of the buildings have now been restored, plus several modern office buildings and hotels. After 2000, the old village restaurant "Zum Frosch" was replaced by a local supply center with shops and restaurants.

The 2002 Elbe flood caused some damage in Cotta. Although the north-western sections of the district are on a high bank, there were floods in the area where the Weißeritz flows into the Elbe , including the Hamburger Straße and the railway underpass. On the Weidigtbach there was extensive flooding of neighboring properties near Rennersdorfer Straße, partly due to backwater.

Population development

year	Residents
1559	21 obsessed man
1764	30 obsessed man
1834	248
1871	1,036
1890	6,080
2006	9,672

politics

As the center of the city district of the same name , Cotta with its town hall is the seat of a Dresden city district office. Large parts of the western urban area between Dölzschen and Stetzsch are assigned to it, for example the populous districts of Löbtau and Gorbitz .

After a fundamental change in the population structure of the former working-class district and the political development of the 20th century, Cotta has lost its position as one of the Dresden centers of social democracy . The CDU and Die Linke now dominate the various elections.

Bundestag election 2005

In the 2005 federal election , Cotta was assigned to the Dresden II - Meißen I constituency . A total of 73% of Cotta residents with voting rights took part in the election. The CDU received the most votes with 26.7%, followed by the SPD with 24.9% and Die Linke with 20.1%. More than 5% of the votes also got the FDP , GREEN and NPD .

State election 2004

The district of Cotta belongs to the constituency of Dresden 4 , which extends over the entire west of the state capital Dresden. The election to the 4th Saxon State Parliament in 2004 resulted in a clear victory for the CDU with a turnout of 57.6%. The second strongest force was Die Linke with 21.5%, ahead of the NPD, which received 10% of the vote. Behind them were the Greens, the SPD and the FDP.

Local election 2004

In the election for the Dresden City Council on June 13, 2004, the PDS at that time received the most votes in Cotta with 25.2%, just ahead of the CDU with 24.5%. The Greens, FDP and SPD were all between 9% and 10%, just ahead of the National Alliance of NPD and DVU , which received 8.4% of the vote. The turnout was 38.7%, below the city average of 45.9%. The result is only partially representative for the entire city of Dresden, where the CDU won with several percentage points ahead of the PDS, but the National Alliance was only able to unite 4.02% of the voters and thus an overall significantly weaker result than in the overall Dresden imported.

Mayor election 2008

In the Cotta district, too, the CDU candidate Helma Orosz emerged as the clear winner in the election of the mayor . It received 48.13% of the vote and thus achieved an average result compared to the rest of the city. In total there were 8,279 eligible voters; 1288 of the 2676 valid votes cast spoke for Orosz. She referred Klaus Sühl (Die Linke), Dirk Hilbert (FDP), Peter Lames (SPD) and Eva Jähnigen (Greens) to the other places.

Culture and sights

theatre

The Young Generation Theater

In 1886 the Ballhaus Constantia was opened on today's Meißner Landstrasse , which later became one of the most famous dance restaurants in the western part of the Saxon capital. The viewing terrace high above the Elbe was considered to be the balcony of the west of Dresden. After the war destruction of 1945 - all large city theaters had fallen victim to the air raids - the ballroom with its almost 1,000 seats was one of the few remaining of this size in Dresden, which is why it became a regular theater venue with performances mainly for children from 1947 under the name Volksbühne and teenagers became. On April 21, 1950, the facility was named Theater of the Young Generation . After a fire in 1976, it was modernized until 1979. During the GDR era, a total of over 10 million viewers came; 70 plays were premiered here or nationwide.

Volkshaus

The Volkshaus Cotta is now used as a cultural center.

Cotta workers built the Volkshaus Cotta as a meeting place at Hebbelstraße 35 between 1923 and 1926 after they had previously unsuccessfully tried to acquire an existing building. The building designed by Kurt Bänke was financed exclusively through donations and voluntary working hours. It was expanded as early as 1928 and now, in addition to the conference rooms, also had a public restaurant with a bowling alley and a youth room. In 1964, the city of Dresden set up the Richard Gärtner cultural center here , named after an active SPD member who was involved in the construction. Events are also regularly held in the Volkshaus Cotta today.

Cultural monuments

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Cotta (Dresden)

town hall

The Town Hall , the seat of the City District Office Cotta

The Cotta town hall on Lübecker Straße near the village center of Altcotta was built in the neo-Renaissance style from November 1899 and inaugurated in April 1901. For its construction several houses and the Cottaer village pond had to give way, which had become useless shortly before at the latest after the relocation of the Weidigtbach. The Cotta municipal council only used the town hall for less than two years, however, as Cotta had lost its independence in January 1903 when it was incorporated into the Saxon residence city of Dresden. Subsequently, the district administrations of Dresden-Cotta and from 1958 Dresden-West were housed here. The Cotta district office (until 2018: Cotta local office) has been based in the building since 1991 .

Churches

Catholic Marienkirche

The Catholic Church of St. Mary is visible from afar on a hill on Gottfried-Keller-Straße at the confluence of Klaus-Groth-Straße . The two-aisled building with the square tower placed on the side with an octagonal structure was built in 1906 in the historicism style based on a design by Paderborn cathedral builder Arnold Güldenpfennig , the construction work was led by the Dresden architect Heino Otto . The stained glass above the high altar was created by Josef Goller . Officially, the church and rectory are called Our Lady , but are usually simply referred to as St. Mary's Church . In 1991 the Steyler missionaries took over the parish.

After the temporary use of an interim church at Hebbelstraße 18, the Heilandskirche became the center of the Evangelical-Lutheran Cotta parish, which had been independent since 1897 . The Loschwitz architect Rudolf Kolbe designed the evangelical sacred building with the massive church tower, which was started in 1914. The rectory is directly adjacent to the church, which stands at the western end of Tonbergstrasse. After the Second World War , the tower of the undamaged Heilandskirche received the cast steel bells of the Jakobikirche in the Wilsdruffer suburb , which was destroyed in the air raids on February 13, 1945 , and the parish hall was furnished with an altar by Friedrich Press . The Cotta cemetery , which was laid out in 1897, is located in the north of Gorbitz; In addition to the soprano Elfride Trötschel , many Cotta residents who died in the world wars and 98 civilian air war victims were buried here. A high stone cross above the burial ground commemorates them.

The Evangelical Methodist Immanuel Church is also located at Hühndorfer Strasse 22 . It was built in 1927 and is not externally recognizable as a church . The church hall with its 150 seats is largely unadorned and has had a Jehmlich organ since 1947 . The building was extensively renovated between 1991 and 2007.

Faustian winery

Cotta village center on Hebbelstrasse, on the right the ruins of the Faust wine estate

The historic Cotta village center, which consists of Altcotta and Hebbelstraße, still includes five buildings that were built before the building boom during the Wilhelminian era. Only the outer walls of a few other old houses, for example the Faust wine estate , have been preserved. This former winery at Hebbelstraße 26 was built shortly after the Seven Years' War in 1764 and is equipped with a round arched gate . It consists of several sub-buildings; On the facade facing the street several old inscriptions on the history of the building are attached to small panels. In the last few decades the winery has deteriorated more and more, but it is to be rebuilt.

Deep Elbe tunnel

The mouth of the Tiefen Elbe tunnel on the banks of the Elbe in Cotta

The mouth of the Tiefen Elbstolln, excavated between 1817 and 1837 to drain the coal shafts in today's Freital , is located at the point where the Berlin – Dresden railway meets the banks of the Elbe . Four of the total of nine light shafts that connect the tunnel to the surface and originally served as a repair access and fresh air supply are located on the Cotta corridor. Among other things, there was a light shaft in the basement of the former Hofbrauhaus, another is on the property at Gottfried-Keller-Strasse 35. Between the demolished Hofbrauhaus and the Junge Generation theater, a narrow path leads from the Meißner Landstrasse down to the mouth hole, next to the 1954 a memorial plaque was attached to the construction of the tunnel.

Former buildings

Hebbelbad

The Hebbelbad , an indoor swimming pool built in 1899, was located at Hebbelstraße 11 . Originally it was intended as a swimming pool for the Cotta workers, for whom it also offered one of the few options for personal hygiene. In 1922 it was taken over by the city of Dresden and modernized seven years later. In the first post-war years, the Hebbelbad was one of the few indoor swimming pools in Dresden that could be used, alongside the Sachsenbad in Pieschen and the Nordbad in Äußere Neustadt . After new swimming pools were opened in Wilsdruffer and the Pirnaische Vorstadt in 1969 and it became increasingly dilapidated, the Hebbelbad had to be closed in the 1980s and then stood empty as a ruin. In February 2011 the indoor pool was demolished.

Hofbrauhaus

The Hofbrauhaus was a large brewery built in 1872 on Hamburger Strasse next to today's Theater Junge Generation, the main building of which was 120 meters long. With a total output of 117,000 hectoliters in 1913, it was one of the 100 largest breweries in the German Empire. The company was discontinued in 1921 as a result of the shortage of raw materials after the First World War and the intense competition on the Dresden beer market. Subsequent users included Ludwig Hupfeld AG , a pipe and fittings factory during the Third Reich, and VEB Chemiehandel Dresden after the Second World War. Between 1992 and 2008, the former Hofbrauhaus, which was partly a listed building, was gradually demolished. There has been a supermarket on the site since 2011, where you can visit the fountain of the Hofbrauhaus.

Cotta power station

From 1894 onwards, a coal-fired power station was in operation on Bahnstrasse in Cotta , which supplied various Deutsche Bahn operating buildings and several public buildings with heat and electricity. After its destruction in 1945, it was rebuilt in 1954 and put into operation again. The final shutdown took place in 1992.

Shoemaker's house

The Schusterhaus was built on Hamburger Strasse around 1890 and, like Constantia, was a large ballroom. After the mouth of the Weißeritz into the Elbe was placed right next to the shoemaker's house in 1893 and a heavy flood of the Erzgebirge river occurred on July 31, 1897, the building was destroyed and then rebuilt in neo-baroque style. The new hall accommodated 2000 people and remained an event room until the military conversion in 1940. In March 1945, the shoemaker's house was completely destroyed in an air raid and its ruins were cleared away in the 1950s.

Sports

Cotta outdoor swimming pool

The Cotta air bath at Hebbelstraße 33, also known in part as the Hebbelbad, was created in 1908 on the initiative of the Cotta Natural Healing Association. The outdoor pool was taken over by the city of Dresden in 1946. In 2004, a new operating company prevented the planned closure after a citizens' initiative had been founded in 2003 to maintain it. Since then, the name Frogpool ("frog pool ") has also established itself .

At the end of the 2011 season, the pool had to be closed. After a complete renovation costing 2.5 million euros, the bathroom was reopened on July 13, 2013. It has a 620 square meter stainless steel swimming pool with three 25 meter lanes, a 70 square meter paddling pool , a 16 meter wide slide, a three meter tower, a one meter diving board and a water mushroom .

Sports field Hebbelstrasse

The Hebbelstraße sports field was laid out right next to the outdoor pool around 1910 and used by various Cotta sports clubs. Here, among others, Heinz Schwipps learned to play football. The Post Sports Club Dresden , formerly BSG Post Dresden, has been the main user of the space since 1949 . The sports home was built in 1960. Between 1998 and 2006, the existing facilities were extensively renovated and converted into an artificial turf pitch.

Boathouses Cotta

Below the confluence of the Weißeritz into the Elbe (at Elbe kilometer 61.8) there are 2 boathouses:

• The club domicile of the Dresden rowing club with Olympic and state bases for rowing .

and

• The boathouse of the canoe department of the Dresden Railway Sports Club .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In 2006 there were 311 companies in Cotta, almost half of them from the service sector. More than ten people were employed in 20 of them, and four of the companies had more than 100 employees.

Cotta has 922 residential buildings with more than 6500 apartments. At 21%, the vacancy rate is higher than the urban average of 12.8%. The unemployment rate in the district is 13%, which is just below the Dresden mean.

traffic

Private transport

View from the Dresden-Cotta stop to Hamburger Strasse

Two major road axes in Dresden intersect near the border between Cotta and Friedrichstadt.

The Hamburger Straße , 1437 for the first time as Breßnitzer road mentioned, runs east-west direction and constitutes the main link between Dresden and Meissen . As linkselbische valley road and B 6 leads under the name Meissner Landstrasse further to the northwest of Dresden, for example, to the village of Cossebaude and to the Dresden-Altstadt motorway junction in Kemnitz on the A4 .

Modern traffic planning made the expansion of a western inner city bypass necessary. The so-called Äußere Stadtring begins at the Dresden-Neustadt motorway junction in Kaditz on the other side of the Elbe, continues over Washingtonstraße in Mickten and the Flügelwegbrücke and meets the B6 at a partially free junction . It then crosses the historic Cotta town center in North-south direction and leads over the Emerich-Ambros-Ufer and the Nossener Brücke further south-east towards Südvorstadt .

Other important streets that start in Cotta are Warthaer Strasse in the direction of Podemus and Ockerwitz , Rudolf-Renner-Strasse to Löbtau and Steinbacher Strasse in the south of the district in the direction of Gompitz .

A total of 4381 vehicles are registered. This corresponds to 527 per 1,000 adult inhabitants. On average, there are 700 private cars for every 1,000 households ; the share of motorcycles is 4%.

Public transport

The Berlin – Dresden railway runs in the north of Cotta . There is a connection to the RB31 via Coswig and Großenhain to Elsterwerda via the Dresden-Cotta stop on Hamburger Straße . Immediately to the east of the district area, the railway facilities widen to form the Friedrichstadt marshalling yard .

Cotta is served by three tram and four bus routes operated by Dresden's public transport company . The tram lines 1 and 12 start west in Leutewitz and lead directly via Hamburger Straße or via a detour via Löbtau to Postplatz in the city center. The tram line 2, which starts from Gorbitz in the south-west, opens up the south of Cotta with Hebbelplatz and crosses line 12 at Pennricher Straße.

The city bus line 94 Cossebaude – Postplatz runs together with the tram along Hamburger Straße, lines 70 and 80 run through the district via the Äußere Stadtring and Grillparzerstraße. Line 92 runs between Gottfried-Keller-Strasse in Cotta and Ockerwitz .

There are a total of nine bus and 20 tram stops in the district, so that more than 97% of the Cotta population can get to the stops "well". The fastest connection to Dresden city center is line 1 with a 10-minute journey.

Public facilities

In City Hall Cotta has city district office Cotta his seat. So Cotta has a central function for the same municipality that large parts of the western urban area of Dresden and includes approximately 65,000 inhabitants.

The Cotta library is the control facility for the so-called library network west of Dresden's city libraries .

education

After the first Cotta school was inaugurated in 1869 and had to be enlarged several times over the years, the Cotta community had another school built at Hebbelstraße 20 in 1897. Because of the color of its clinker brick facade , it was called the Red School , officially it was called the 12th Elementary School and in the time of the GDR POS Arthur Weineck . After the reunification, it was divided into a middle school and a primary school , both of which continued to use the schoolhouse. Since the 12th middle school was closed in summer 2003, only the 12th elementary school has been housed in the building.

Around 1910, the 34th elementary school, now the Dresden-Cotta grammar school , was then the largest elementary school in Saxony. It was built under the direction of the City Planning Councilor Hans Erlwein and was designed for more than 3,000 students. Popularly it is called Rübezahlschule after a facade painting . Restored after severe war damage, the Dresden-West district school and the Ernst Moritz Arndt POS were housed in the building in the GDR era . After 1990 it became a high school .

Personalities

Hermann Glöckner's sculpture in front of the Federal Palace in Bonn

Several Dresden personalities are closely connected to the former community or the current district of Cotta. The constructivist painter and sculptor Hermann Glöckner (1889–1987), the naval officer Ernst Wolf (1886–1964) and the javelin thrower Luise Krüger (1915–2001), who won the silver medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, were born here German Reich won.

The footballer Heinz Schwipps (1915-2006) spent several stations in his playing and coaching career with Cotta teams. The soprano Elfride Trötschel (1913–1958) grew up in Cotta. Richard Partzsch (1881–1953), later a member of the Reichstag , headed the SPD local association Dresden-Cotta in the years before the First World War . The politician Rudolf Renner (1894–1940), co-founder of the KPD , lived at Hühndorfer Strasse 1 in southern Cotta until his arrest by the National Socialists in April 1933.

Wilhelm Franz (1819–1903) is one of the honorary citizens . In the 19th century, during the phase of strong growth of the place, he was the councilor of Cotta and made great contributions to its development. In the south of Cotta, Wilhelm-Franz-Strasse was named after him during his lifetime in 1901. After his death he was buried, like Elfride Trötschel, in the Cotta cemetery .

literature

• Annett Pratsch: The line and stitched ceramic settlement in Dresden-Cotta. An early Neolithic settlement in the Dresden Elbe basin (Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe, Volume 17). Verlag Beier & Beran, Weißbach 1999, ISBN 3-930036-26-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} dresden.de: Dresden themed city map, environment, theme of historical waters
2. ↑ dresden.de: Preservation statute for historic village centers (PDF; 78 kB)
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} dresden.de: Statistics of the Cotta district (PDF; 354 ​​kB)
4. ↑ Ernst Eichler : Slavic place names between Saale and Neisse. A compendium. Volume 1: A-J, Bautzen 1985.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} dresdner-stadtteile.de: District history
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Cotta in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
7. ↑ sta-dresden.de: district history Loebtau
8. ↑ fropo.info: District newspaper Froschpost
9. ^ Rengert Elburg: Village on the Loess - A settlement of the first farmers in Dresden-Cotta. , Archeology Current in the Free State of Saxony. Volume 2, 1994, pp. 39-46. (Accessed March 27, 2012)
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e} dresden-und-sachsen.de: District history
11. ↑ Manfred Wilde : The sorcery and witch trials in Kursachsen , Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2003, p. 492.
12. ↑ dresden-bilder.de: Cotta-Bilder ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ dresden.city-map.de: District history
14. ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900: Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Altstadt
15. ↑ dresden-lexikon.de: Dresden-Lexikon
16. ↑ themenstadtplan.dresden.de: themed city ​​map
17. ↑ This information does not refer to the district, but to the area of ​​the statistical district Cotta.
18. ↑ dresden.de: Results of local elections 2004 ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
19. ↑ dresden.de: Results of the OB election 2008 ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
20. ↑ dresdner-stadtteile.de: Theater Junge Generation
21. ↑ steyler.at: Steyler Missionare in Cotta ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
22. ↑ pictokon.net: Press Altar Savior parish
23. ↑ denkmalprojekt.org: Fallen memorial Cottaer Friedhof
24. ↑ faustsches-weingut.de: Faustsches Weingut ( Memento from January 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
25. ↑ sperrzone.net: Hofbrauhaus Cotta
26. ↑ frogpool.de: Freibad Cotta ( Memento from May 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
27. ↑ Lars Kühl: Cotta swimming pool opens again . In: Saxon newspaper . July 12, 2013 ( online [accessed July 12, 2013]).
28. ↑ post-sv-dresden.de: history of sports grounds
29. ↑ osp-chemnitz-dresden.de: Olympiastützpunkt Dresden ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
30. ↑ drc1902.de: Dresdner Ruderclub 1902
31. ↑ bibo-dresden.de: Library Cotta ( Memento of the original from October 26th 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
32. ↑ sn.schule.de: 12th primary school in Dresden
33. ↑ dresdner-stadtteile.de: street names

Web links

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

• dresdner-stadtteile.de: District history
• kai-tempel.de: District history
• Cotta (Dresden) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• State capital Dresden: Statistical district Cotta (PDF; 354 ​​kB)
• fropo.info: Cottaer district newspaper

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