Crossen (Zwickau)

Crosses City of Zwickau Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 33 ″ N , 12 ° 29 ′ 23 ″ E
Height :	254 m
Residents :	1620 (Dec. 31, 2005)
Incorporation :	October 1, 1996
Postal code :	08058
Area code :	0375
Location of Crossen in Saxony

town hall

Fire station

Since October 1, 1996, Crossen has been a district of Zwickau , which has been the district town of the Zwickau district in the Free State of Saxony since 2008 . It came together with the neighboring town of Schneppendorf, which was incorporated into Crossen in 1994, to the town of Zwickau. Crossen is located in the Zwickau-Nord district and has the official number 37.

Geographical location

Districts and districts of Zwickau

Crossen is in the north of Zwickau, on both sides of the Zwickauer Mulde . The place is almost completely surrounded by districts of Zwickau: in the west lie Niederhohndorf and Oberrothenbach , in the north the places Mosel and the district of Wulm belonging to the municipality Mülsen , in the east Schneppendorf and in the south Pölbitz . The Muldentalradwanderweg and the Lutherweg Sachsen run through the district .

history

The acid tower in Crossen: Saxon industrial history - secretly blown up in 2008

Crossen was first mentioned in 1219 under the name Crozne . Crozne means something like “braided”, which indicates the large population of willows on the Zwickauer Mulde . At that time, as an interest-bearing village, Crossen belonged to the Eisenberg monastery in Thuringia , to which it was subordinated by the Margrave Dietrich with a deed of donation . In 1254 it was handed over by Burgrave Erkenbert von Starkenberg to the Grünhain monastery , which exercised full jurisdiction from 1289. From 1399, Crossen had a village forge and in 1443 the first grinding mill was founded and operated. In the course of the introduction of the Reformation , Grünhain Monastery was secularized in 1533 . After its final dissolution, Crossen came under the administration of the Electoral Office of Zwickau in 1536 .

In 1571 the first parish tailor and in 1594 the first parish shepherd were mentioned. 1604 was first reported by a teacher. The first shoe repairer was mentioned for the first time in 1708 and the first carpenter in 1721. 1633 raged in Crossen plague and 1865/1866 Crossen was from the cholera struck. Since the cemetery at the church was too small at that time, the victims were buried in a new cemetery "Am Kuchel". In 1670 a paper mill was attached. Until 1856, Crossen belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Zwickau. In 1856, Crossen came to the Zwickau court office and in 1875 to the Zwickau administration . As early as 1867, Crossen had organized fire protection and in 1900 the volunteer fire brigade was founded. The town hall was inaugurated in 1926.

From the end of the 1940s, SAG Wismut processed uranium ore for the USSR in a large company located here . A hose conveyor leads from Crossen to the Helmsdorf sedimentation plant , where wastewater and sludge from ore processing was deposited. The uranium processing plant was completely demolished in the late 1990s. The rehabilitation program including the Helmsdorf tailings plant should be completed by 2018. Only the Crossen Halde recalls this part of the history of Zwickau. The former uranium processing site is part of the Muldenaue.

In 1952 Crossen was assigned to the Zwickau-Land district in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ). Since 1990, Crossen has belonged to the Saxon district of Zwickau, which was added to the district of Zwickauer Land in 1994 . After Crossen had entered into an administrative partnership with Schneppendorf in 1992 , it was incorporated into Crossen on January 1, 1994. On October 1, 1996, the Crossen community lost its independence and was incorporated into Zwickau. Today, Crossen belongs to the Zwickau-Nord district , has the official number 37 and a local council .

Aerial view of Crossen
Residential area Am Angerberg direction B93

The last major floods in Crossen occurred in 1932, 1954, 2002 and 2013.

Population development

date	population
December 31, 1998	1606
December 31, 1999	1614
December 31, 2000	1596
December 31, 2001	1591
December 31, 2002	1600
December 31, 2003	1565
December 31, 2004	1597
December 31, 2005	1620

year	Population (forecast)
2010	1600
2015	1500
2020	1450

Source: Urban development concept of the city of Zwickau 2020 (as of June 2006).

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Uranium ore processing plant

Beginning in the Soviet occupation zone until the end of the GDR , the SAG Wismut large-scale company (from 1954 object "AB 101" of SDAG Wismut) produced the raw material for the Soviet atomic bomb program in a uranium ore process .

Zwickau-Crossen industrial park

After the start of car production in the nearby Volkswagen plant in Zwickau , in addition to a large number of small businesses from different industries, a number of VW suppliers also settled in the Zwickau-Crossen industrial park.

traffic

Streets

Until the construction of the B93 / B 175 in the east of the town, long-distance traffic was routed via the "Leipziger Straße" in the west of Crossen. On the B93 / B175, which has been converted into an expressway, Crossen has an exit of the same name.

Local public transport

The center of Zwickau can be reached in a very short time using the local public transport bus line 173. The closest passenger stop on the Dresden – Werdau railway line is in the neighboring town of Oberrothenbach. Between 1893 and 1999, Crossen had a freight yard on the Zwickau – Crossen – Mosel railway, which was only used for freight traffic . This ran parallel to the Dresden – Werdau railway line.

freetime and sports

Crossen outdoor swimming pool

There is an outdoor swimming pool in Crossen. It was inaugurated in 1926 and in 2005 by the Förderverein Freibad Crossen e. V. taken over. The city of Zwickau originally wanted to close the outdoor pool to save money.

sports clubs

SDAG Wismut used to be the sponsor of Crossen Sports. From 1976 until the political change , the club TSV Crossen played in the district league , the third highest GDR division. The players all came from the upper division BSG Sachsenring Zwickau . Today the club is called TSV Crossen , which plays in the eight-class Chemnitz district class.

Personalities

Paul Christoph Zeidler (1660–1729), mountain master
Gerhard Kreyssig (1899–1982), politician ( SPD ), Member of the Bundestag
Reinhard Eiben (* 1951), canoeist
Werner-Hans Schlegel (1915–2003), painter and graphic artist (1996 granted honorary citizenship)

literature

Richard Steche : Cross. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 12. Issue: Zwickau Official Authority . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1889, p. 18.
Cross in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony