Kötzschau

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Kötzschau
City of Leuna
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 46 ″  N , 12 ° 7 ′ 42 ″  E
Height : 114 m above sea level NN
Area : 16.77 km²
Residents : 802  (Jun 30, 2017)
Population density : 48 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2009
Postal code : 06237
Area code : 03462
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Location of Kötzschau in Leuna

Kötzschau is a district of the city of Leuna in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany).

geography

The northern entrance to Kötzschau

Kötzschau lies between Merseburg and Leipzig , on the state border with Saxony , and is traversed by the brook from southeast to northwest . The latter is dammed in the Schladebach storage facility.

history

The first documented mention of the place was in 1325 as Koczowe in the Kalendarium Merseburgense . The salty springs were mentioned in 1333 and the Kötzschau salt works in 1347. The other earlier mentions refer to members of the noble von Kötschau family . Until 1815 Kötzschau belonged to the office of Lützen of the Hochstift Merseburg , which had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 .

In 1583, like from 1607 to 1615, the plague broke out in Kötzschau and the surrounding area. On Maundy Thursday , April 4, 1604, large parts of the village of Kötzschau burned down during the service. The parish and the parish archives with church records were also destroyed. During the Thirty Years War the village burned down again.

Kötzschau Church

From 1706 to 1707 the Swedish occupation of Electoral Saxony took place. In 1706 the Swedish King Karl XII moved into the neighboring town of Altranstädt . his headquarters in the castle there. The main feed store of the Swedes was set up in the Kötzschau parish. Two deceased Swedish officers were temporarily buried in the crypt of the von Burkersroda family in the Kötzschauer church. The Swedish king was also present at the funeral sermon on June 15, 1707. When the Swedes withdrew from Electoral Saxony in September 1707, both officers were brought back from the crypt and taken with them to Sweden.

By the resolutions of the Vienna Congress Kötzschau fell Lutzen on May 15, 1815 the western part of the Office of the Kingdom of Saxony to the Kingdom of Prussia, especially the newly formed province of Saxony ( Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg ). On March 22nd, 1856, the opening of the railway line and the Kötzschau station took place, which today houses a railway museum.

On July 1, 1950, Rampitz, Schladebach, Thalschütz and Witzschersdorf were incorporated into Kötzschau. Kötschau became a town of Leuna on December 31, 2009.

Surname

The different development of the spelling of the family and place name Kötzschau is striking. Here are some examples of notations:

1172 Cotsowe; 1174 cocoons; 1205 Cotzowe; 1243 Cotzowe, Gotzowe, Gotsowe; 1218-1261 Chotsowe, Cotzowe, Cozowe, Koytschowe, Chozhowe, Cozchove, Kozsowe; 1256-1269 Kozscowe, Cochsowe 1320-1321 Koczowe; 1360 Kotzowe; 1408 Kotzschow; 1428 Kochschau, Kotzschau; 1545 Kotzscha, Koschaw; 1562 Kotzschau; Ketzschau; 1745 Kötschau; 1818 Kötzschau;

Name meaning

Kötzschau was written without z until the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The name of the station was officially Kötschau until 1933. The accumulation of consonants tzsch and the ending owe, au most clearly indicate the originally Sorbian , i.e. Slavic origin. This ending probably means water or floodplain. In Central Germany there are two other places with the name Kötzschau: Kötschau (without z) near Jena and Kötzschau near Löbau . In Schottin: The Slavs in Thuringia. says about the settlement Kötzschau near Löbau: "This place name is very difficult to interpret. [...] Some of them can be derived from the Middle Low German Kot , Kotec = hut or Bude, others from Wendish Kut, Czech Kout = angle, still others from Czech Kot = hangover. Kötzschau was probably called Wendish Kozow = Hüttnersdorf, Kothendorf. " It is quite possible that this interpretation also applies to Kötzschau near Leipzig.

Church in Schladebach

Districts

From 2006 to 2009 Kötzschau was part of the Leuna-Kötzschau administrative community . Until December 30, 2009, Kötzschau was an independent municipality with the associated districts of Rampitz, Thalschütz , Schladebach and Witzschersdorf . On December 31, 2009, Kötzschau was incorporated into the city of Leuna . The last mayor was Roger Gruhle.

Partner location

Since 1991 there has been a partnership between Kötzschau and the Lower Saxon village of Clauen .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Kötzschau

Blazon  : "In red a silver bar sloping from right to left and covered with three green linden leaves."

The coat of arms, which was designed by the Magdeburg municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch , is the coat of arms of a noble von Kotschen family , also called von Kötschau . One of these families had a silver diagonal bar covered with three green linden leaves in the red shield.

Memorials

  • Memorial stone on the sports field in the Schladebach district in memory of the victims of fascism , in particular the communist worker athlete Otto Pohle, who helped create this sports field. He was murdered in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944
  • Memorial on the cemetery of the local part Schladebach for 19 Polish and Soviet men and women during the Second World War deported to Germany and victims of forced labor were
  • Memorial stone, designed by the resident Ottomar Schmidt, on Thälmann-Platz in memory of the KPD chairman who was murdered in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944

Deep drilling

Information board about what was once the world's deepest borehole near Schladebach

In 1880, the Royal Prussian Mining Administration initiated a deep borehole near Schladebach under the supervision of Karl Köbrich to search for hard coal, but also to obtain information about brine sources . Karl von Fritsch recorded the profile . In 1884 the borehole exceeded the world's deepest borehole at Klein Nordende by 410 m at 1748 m , and in 1893 the depth record was set at Paruschowitz in Upper Silesia at 2003 m . These two deep boreholes were also accompanied by Köbrich.

More Attractions

  • The Elsterfloßgraben is the longest technical monument in Europe. A cycle path in the municipality is currently being built along the trench.
  • Landscape protection area Kiesgruben Wallendorf / Schladebach
  • Kötzschau Railway Museum in the reception building of the Kötzschau station (history of the Leipzig - Großkorbetha railway line, open approx. 2 times a month)
  • The mill in Kötzschau was converted into a restaurant
  • Heimatstube Kötzschau (opening times by arrangement)

  • Railway Museum

  • Mill

  • Pit near Schladebach, in the background Leuna

Transport links

Kötzschau has a stop on the Leipzig – Großkorbetha railway line with the RB20 railway line that runs every hour. The Kötzschau Railway Museum is located in the renovated reception building .

line Route in the timetable year 2019
RB 20 Leipzig Hbf - Leipzig-Möckern - Leipzig-Leutzsch - Markranstädt - Bad Dürrenberg - Großkorbetha - Kötzschau - Weißenfels - Naumburg (Saale) Hbf - Bad Kösen - Bad Sulza - Apolda - Weimar - Erfurt Hbf - Gotha - Eisenach (operated by Abellio Rail Central Germany )

primary school

There is a primary school in Kötzschau. The closest secondary school is in Bad Dürrenberg , while the grammar school in Bad Dürrenberg was closed in 2007, so that Merseburg and Markranstädt (in Saxony) are available.

Personalities

  • Ernst Pfeil (born May 12, 1850 in Kötzschau; † January 6, 1918 in Halle), theologian and local researcher

literature

  • FO arrow: Chronicle of the village of Kötzschau in the district of Merseburg , in: New communications from the field of historical-antiquarian research, Vol. 22 (1906), pp. 1–329
  • Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Province of Saxony and adjacent areas, by the Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and the Duchy of Anhalt, Vol. 8, Halle 1883, pp. 70–71
  • Kötzschau . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 5th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1818, pp. 34-36.
  • David Falk: Leipzig – Großkorbetha - 150 years of railway connection history. Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-936508-14-7

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.
  2. ^ The district of Merseburg in the municipal directory 1900
  3. ↑ Kötzschau on gov.genealogy.net
  4. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009