Crossing the Elster

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′  N , 11 ° 59 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Saale-Holzland district
Management Community :	Heideland-Elstertal-Schkölen
Height :	176 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.8 km 2
Residents:	1515 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	140 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	07613
Area code :	036693
License plate :	SHK, EIS, SRO
Community key :	16 0 74 012
Community structure:	Core community; 2 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Flemmingstrasse 17 07613 Crossen
Mayor :	Uwe Berndt ( The Left )
Location of the municipality of Crossen an der Elster in the Saale-Holzland district

Crossen an der Elster is a municipality in the northeast of the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia and is the seat of the administrative community Heideland-Elstertal-Schkölen .

geography

Crossen is located near Eisenberg at the confluence of the Rauda in the White Elster , not far from the state border with Saxony-Anhalt .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Hartmannsdorf , Heideland , Rauda and Silbitz in the Saale-Holzland district and Wetterzeube in the Saxony-Anhalt Burgenland district .

Community structure

The districts of Ahlendorf (first mentioned in 1378), Tauchlitz (first mentioned on September 20, 1271) and Nickelsdorf (first mentioned on April 4, 1109) belong to Crossen . However, these do not have their own local council .

history

Cross with lock

Crossen Castle with keep

church

Monument in the cemetery to the revolutionaries of 1848

On March 31, 995, Crossen was first mentioned in a document.

In the Crossener Rittergutswald eight visible burial mounds point to the Neolithic settlement. The graves belonged to a burial ground of eleven hills.

The Crossen Castle stood over the left bank of the White Elster north of the Rauda, ​​which flows into the Elster. It was built on behalf of the bishops of Naumburg-Zeitz to protect the Elstertal. As early as 995, Crossen was mentioned in a document in Gau Pozowa . The Crossen Castle , built by the Lords of Wolframsdorf, now stands on the site . The keep and two artificial fortification ditches are still evidence of the previous complex.

Until 1792 Crossen belonged to the Electoral Saxon office of Haynsburg .

In the district of Nickelsdorf, the western projection of the Mühlberg is called "Nickelsburg". This "castle" is one of the most impressive early medieval structures. It still has three walls that seal off the spur to the northeast; the wall securing the slope is also still well preserved. During excavations in 1935/36, early and high medieval finds as well as Neolithic ceramics and flint artifacts were found . There is also a wall that is classified as belonging to the Neolithic period.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities of Nickelsdorf and Tauchlitz were incorporated. Both places belonged to Saxony-Anhalt until they were incorporated .

On January 1, 1991, the name of the municipality was changed from Krossen / Elster to Crossen an der Elster . On March 25, 1994, Ahlendorf was incorporated.

Population development

Population development (December 31)

1994-2222 1995-2204 1996-2176 1997-2219 1998-2167 1999-2150

2000-2077 2001-2049 2002-2007 2003-1957 2004-1941 2005-1923

2006-1892 2007-1851 2008-1828 2009-1810 2010–1753 2011-1723

2012-1710 2013–1685 2014–1623 2015–1581 2016–1564 2017–1528

2018–1510 2019–1515

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of Crossen an der Elster consists of twelve council members:

• The Left : 4 seats (32.3% of the vote)
• CDU : 4 seats (32.0% of the vote)
• FDP : 2 seats (16.4% of the vote)
• AfD : 1 seats (13.6% of the vote)
• Voluntary fire brigade : 1 seat (5.8% of the vote)

(As of: local elections on May 25, 2014 )

mayor

The honorary mayor Uwe Berndt (Die Linke) was elected in 2014. He prevailed in the runoff election on June 8, 2014 with 70.5% of the vote against his competitor Heidelinde Laube from the CDU.

Culture and sights

The main attraction of the place is the baroque Crossen Castle , which is currently not open to the public.

Furthermore, the renovated St. Michaelis Church , which was mentioned for the first time in 1320, is characteristic of the townscape.

Historical monuments

In the cemetery, in front of an old linden tree, there is a memorial to the revolutionaries of 1848 , it was erected in 1948.

Next to the school, in a small park, is the memorial for the victims of fascism, which was erected in the GDR times . It commemorates the resistance fighters in the community, including the communist Willy Graumüller who was murdered in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , and whom the name of a residential area that has been called Teisker-Siedlung since 1990 reminds of . In November 2016, a stumbling block was laid for Willy Graumüller.

See also : List of stumbling blocks in Crossen an der Elster

traffic

The place has two breakpoints, Crossen Ort and Crossen an der Elster , on the Leipzig – Probstzella railway line . A rail connection to Eisenberg existed until 1998.

Personalities

• Peter Theodoricus (1580–1640), legal scholar
• Karl von Flemming (1783–1866), manor owner and civil servant in Saxon and Prussian services
• Wieland Rose (1959–2007), Mayor of Crossen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , pp. 14, 281 and 198.
3. ^ Wolfgang Kahl: First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 50.
4. ↑ Sven Ostritz (Ed.): Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Ost (= Archaeological Hiking Guide Thuringia. H. 9). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-937517-51-3 , p. 62.
5. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 81.
6. ↑ Sven Ostritz (Ed.): Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Ost (= Archaeological Hiking Guide Thuringia. H. 9). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-937517-51-3 , p. 61.
7. ↑ Sven Ostritz (Ed.): Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Ost (= Archaeological Hiking Guide Thuringia. H. 9). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-937517-51-3 , pp. 64-65.
8. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia on May 25, 2014. Elections of the community and city council members. Preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on June 13, 2014 . 
9. ↑ Local elections in Thuringia 2014. Mayoral elections 2014 in Thuringia. Preliminary results. The regional returning officer, accessed on June 13, 2014 . 
10. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 206.

Web links

Commons : Crossen an der Elster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Private homepage about Crossen