Goßwitz (Unterwellenborn)

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Goßwitz
Municipality Unterwellenborn
Coat of arms of Goßwitz
Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 8 ″  N , 11 ° 28 ′ 36 ″  E
Height : 419 m above sea level NN
Residents : 876  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Incorporation : February 1, 2006
Postal code : 07333
Primaries : 03671, 036732
Village church
Village church

Goßwitz is a district of the Unterwellenborn community in southeast Thuringia , not far from the district town of Saalfeld / Saale .

geography

The place is nestled between fields, forests and meadows. Its geographic altitude is 420 m above sea level. NN indicated, the Steinbiel as the highest point reaches 505 m above sea level. NN.

history

From the history of Saalfeld ore mining shows that even in the hallways to Goßwitz in the years around 1295 mining on copper , silver , cobalt , and iron ore was operated. Some of the Eisenstein was exposed and they were picked up on the forest path between Goßwitz and Hohenwarte , the so-called Eisensteinweg. And even today there is a square in Goßwitz called the Eisenstein.

One can assume that wherever people found work, they also had to live somewhere and founded a settlement here. The Wutschenbach , which rises high above Goßwitz , probably donated the necessary water to the first inhabitants, who, according to the prevailing opinion, were Sorbs .

The stream flows through Goßwitz and then down the entire "Wutschental" to Kaulsdorf , where it flows into the Saale . One can definitely say that this Wutschenbach is the reason for the creation of the place Goßwitz.

In the Rudolstadt State Archives , however, one can find a document dated September 30, 1381 from Count Heinrich von Schwarzburg and Lords zu Blankenburg , which provides evidence of the first documentary mention of the place Goßwitz, here still called Gosswdtz. The documented year of birth of the place is now fixed. In another document dated April 28, 1471, issued in Costnitz (Imperial Court of Justice of Konstanz on Lake Constance ), the place Goswydtz is mentioned, along with other villages, in connection with the city of Ranis and also in the Turkish tax register of the Saalfeld office from 1521 ff. the place Goßwitz was already mentioned.

The name Gosswdtz or Goswydtz goes back to the old Slavic "gosz". This means "dense forest, protection, shelter". With the ending “-witz” - ie “goszvice”, the name can be rewritten as “Walddorf”.

The expressions for Goßwitz - Gostz or Goßsch - which are still very common today are still very reminiscent of the above. Old Slavic names (source: Rudolstädter Heimathefte 11 / 12-1979).

Gradually Goßwitz grew bigger and bigger. In the person register of the year 1674 there were 22 men, 18 servants and boys, 25 women and 24 maidservants and maidservants, so a total of 89 people. In 1871 there were 525, in 1885 677, 1933 944, 1939 1050 and 1960 1105 inhabitants.

The first church was consecrated in Goßwitz in 1543, followed by the construction of the second church in 1717 and finally between 1868 and 1877 the St. Nicholas Church , which still exists today, was built . The place originated with a few houses around the place where the pond is today. Goßwitz, together with Groß- and Kleinkamsdorf, belonged as an exclave to the Electoral Saxon Office of Arnshaugk until 1815 and after its assignment, decided at the Congress of Vienna , came to the Prussian district of Ziegenrück , to which the place belonged until 1945.

In 1793 a post mill was built near Buchaer Strasse . It was in operation until 1889 and was demolished in 1896.

The people earned their living almost exclusively in mining. In view of the primitive mining methods and the social conditions, there was little to earn with this hard work. Therefore one tried in the families by cultivating fields, keeping livestock and also working at home (making dolls) to earn something. Child labor was a matter of course, whether in mining or with day laborers .

Bucha was incorporated on July 1, 1950. Bucha and Goßwitz were districts of the Goßwitz community. This continued after the fall of 1989/1990. In the first free local elections in 1990, the citizens of Bucha and Goßwitz again elected a joint council and a joint mayor. In the mid-1990s, the Goßwitz community joined the Unterwellenborn administrative community, as it was no longer possible to elect a full-time mayor, but only an honorary mayor due to the low population (less than 3000). In addition to Goßwitz / Bucha, the administrative community also consisted of the communities of Könitz, Lausnitz, Birkigt, Unterwellenborn with the districts of Unterwellenborn, Oberwellenborn, Langenschade and Dorfkulm. On February 1, 2006, the above-mentioned Municipalities gave up their political independence and merged to form a new municipality of Unterwellenborn with their new districts Unterwellenborn, Oberwellenborn, Könitz, Birkigt, Lausnitz, Langenschade, Dorfkulm, Bucha and Goßwitz .

→ See also St. Nikolaus (Goßwitz)

Population development

  • 1994: 1365
  • 1995: 1375
  • 1996: 1350
  • 1997: 1377
  • 1998: 1358
  • 1999: 1392
  • 2000: 1368
  • 2001: 1375
  • 2002: 1386
  • 2003: 1383
  • 2004: 1371
  • 2018: 876 (without Bucha)
Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

In the districts of Unterwellenborn there are z. Currently still local councilors and a local district mayor, in Goßwitz / Bucha again a joint local council and mayor, also in Langenschade / Dorfkulm.

coat of arms

This coat of arms is the common coat of arms for the former municipality of Goßwitz with the districts of Goßwitz and Bucha. It was designed by Manfred Fischer from Goßwitz and approved on May 10, 1995 by the Thuringian State Administration Office. The original coat of arms of Goßwitz contains the black eagle on a red / white background. The Bucha coat of arms shows a green beech tree on a yellow background. With the new coat of arms, the eagle symbolizes the Goßwitz district, the beech branch with leaves and fruit the Bucha district and the blue wavy bars the small town of Saalthal, which belongs to the Bucha district and is located on the Hohenwarte reservoir (Saale).

Blazon : “By a blue wavy bar with a silver border below, divided by silver and red; above a growing black eagle with a golden beak, below a golden beech branch with two leaves and a fruit. "

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Ziegenrück district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  2. Werner Dietzel: Mills between the upper Saale and Thuringian basin. Water wheels and turbines in mills, hammer mills and smelters in the Saale catchment area as well as windmills on the surrounding plateaus. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2012, ISBN 978-3-86777-453-6 , p. 154.
  3. ^ Federal Statistical Office: Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
  4. StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2006