Großbothen

Großbothen Large district town of Grimma Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 15 "  N , 12 ° 44 ′ 47"  E
Height :	144 m
Incorporation :	January 1, 2011
Postal code :	04668
Area code :	034384
Location of Großbothen in Saxony

Church in Großbothen

Großbothen has been part of the city of Grimma in the south of the Leipzig district in Saxony since 2011 .

geography

View of Großbothen

Großbothen is located in the Muldental and on the surrounding, mainly western ridges, on the eastern edge of the Colditzer Heide . The surrounding towns are Colditz (10 kilometers away) and the former district town of Grimma (7.5 kilometers).

history

Großbothen was first mentioned in documents as Batin in 1291. Kleinbothen appeared 110 years earlier, i.e. 1181, as a "Batin" in a document. Großbothen was founded by German settlers as a street village during the eastern colonization . It belonged to the Nimbschen Monastery until the Reformation in the 16th century . In 1867 the town was connected to the railway and in 1909 the Großbothen steam sawmill went into operation.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities of Kleinbothen and Scheddel were incorporated.

Until December 31, 2010, Großbothen was a community-free municipality . This ended January 1, 2011 with the inclusion of the five northern districts - Großbothen, Kleinbothen , Schaddel , Kössern and Förstgen - in the district town of Grimma. The remaining four southern districts - Leisenau , Sermuth , Zschetzsch and Schönbach - together with the neighboring communities of Colditz and Zschadraß form the new unified community of Colditz.

Population development

Development of the population of the community Großbothen (from 2000; reference date December 31) :

year	Residents
1990	* 3942
2000	3796
2005	3573
2006	3568
2007	3532
2010	3396

* October 3

traffic

Großbothen station around 1910

Großbothen is in the network area of ​​the Central German Transport Association and is connected by the Leipzig regional bus with a PlusBus and another regional bus line. The B 107 and the Borsdorf – Coswig railway line run through the former municipality . With the disused Glauchau – Wurzen (“Muldentalbahn”) railway line, the latter formed a small railway junction, which from 1936 to 1947 still included the “transverse railway” Borna – Großbothen . The A 14 runs north of the former municipality and can be reached via the Grimma connection (around 10 kilometers away).

tourism

Paddle mill

• One destination in Großbothen is the Wilhelm Ostwald memorial .
• The Schaddelmühle has existed since at least 1525. Since 1991 it has been the seat of the Schaddelmühle cultural association.
• In the list of cultural monuments in Großbothen , the cultural monuments of the place are listed.

Personalities

Grave of Wilhelm Ostwald

• The chemist and Nobel laureate Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932) lived and researched for many years in his country estate Energie in Großbothen, which he acquired in 1901 .
• Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920), the founder of psychology as an independent discipline, lived during the last years of his life on Grimmaer Strasse in Großbothen, where he also died in 1920.
• Ernst Arthur Seemann (1829–1904), publisher

literature

• Cornelius Gurlitt : Grossbothen. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 19. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma (1st half) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1897, p. 125.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Agreement on integration, as of September 13, 2010 (Großbothen, Grimma) ( Memento from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 86 kB), accessed on July 16, 2020.
2. ↑ Agreement (draft), as of: 13.09.2010 ( Memento of March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 83 kB), accessed on July 16, 2020.
3. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2011
4. ↑ see http://wilhelm-ostwald-park.de/ , last accessed on September 8, 2012

Web links

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

• Großbothen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Großbothen parish