Kauschwitz
Kauschwitz
Location of the city of Plauen
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '24 " N , 12 ° 5' 35" E
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Height : | 422 m |
Area : | 6.99 km² |
Residents : | 769 (May 9, 2011) |
Population density : | 110 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | January 1, 1999 |
Postal code : | 08525 |
Area code : | 03741 |
Location of Kauschwitz in Plauen
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Kauschwitz is a district of Plauen ( northern city area ), which was incorporated in 1999. The district is identical to the Kauschwitz district and, together with Zwoschwitz, forms a village in Plauen.
Geographical location
Kauschwitz is located in a valley at the northwestern end of the city of Plauen, about one kilometer from the actual outskirts. The Syrabach flows through the village . The district borders on four other districts of Plauen and two places in a municipality in the Vogtland district .
Syrau (municipality of Rosenbach / Vogtl. ) |
Joessnitz | |
Schneckengrün (municipality of Rosenbach / Vogtl. ) |
Haselbrunn | |
Zwoschwitz | Neundorf |
The area of the village consists of 72.8% agricultural land and 19.2% forest . The remaining area is streets, residential and industrial areas.
politics
Local council
Kauschwitz has a local council together with Zwoschwitz . Since the last election on May 26, 2019, it has consisted of five members. Since only the electoral association Kauschwitz-Zwoschwitz ran for the election, the local council consists only of members of this association.
The local council elections from 1999 to 2019 had the following results (for comparison the last election to the local council in 1994 is also listed):
Parties and constituencies | 2019 | 2014 | 2009 | 2004 | 1999 | 1994 | |||||||
% | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | ||
WV KZ | Free electoral association Kauschwitz-Zwoschwitz | 100 | 5 | 100 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | - | - | - | - | 44.9 | 1 | 24.3 | 1 | - | - | 19.2 | 2 |
FWV K | Fire Brigade Association Kauschwitz eV | - | - | - | - | 42.6 | 2 | 47.3 | 3 | - | - | - | - |
GREEN | Alliance 90 / The Greens | - | - | - | - | 12.5 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 4.0 | 0 |
WV K | Free electoral association Kauschwitz | - | - | - | - | - | - | 28.3 | 1 | 100 | 6th | 31.3 | 3 |
PDS | Democratic Socialism Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9.4 | 1 |
UWG S | Independent voter community OT Schöpsdrehe | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11.1 | 1 |
Flat share Z | Community of voters Zwoschwitz | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9.8 | 1 |
FDP | Free Democratic Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7.9 | 0 |
AfW K | Action of free voters Kauschwitz | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7.4 | 0 |
total | 100 | 5 | 100 | 5 | 100 | 3 | 100 | 5 | 100 | 6th | 100 | 8th | |
Voter turnout in% | 62.8 | 57.7 | 44.4 | 44.6 | 57.5 | 76.1 |
- ↑ In 1994 the last election to the council of the then still independent community took place.
- ↑ In 2019 only the WV KZ stood for election.
- ↑ In 2014 only the WV KZ stood for election.
- ↑ In 1999 only the WV K stood for election.
Economy and Transport
In the northeast, on the border to Haselbrunn, is Plauen Park , a large shopping center whose catchment area includes Plauen and the area around Greiz . There used to be an airfield on this area , which was destroyed during the Second World War. In the north of the district in the "Schöpsdrehe" industrial park, federal road 282 joins federal road 92 when coming from A 9 . Together, the two federal highways form part of the European route 49 .
Culture and sights
In Kauschwitz there is a chapel that was built in 1763/64 by the court judge Adam von Watzdorf on the ruins of a former defensive tower. In 1992 it was comprehensively renovated with the help of church and private donations. In the northeast of the district, on the border with Haselbrunn, is the Plauen Jewish cemetery .
Memorials
In Kauschwitz-Holzmühle there was a camp in which more than 1000 mostly young people between 17 and 22 years, mostly from Ukraine, were used for forced labor , many of which did not survive. Memorial sites were set up to commemorate the victims.
- Memorial stone at the former Kauschwitz-Holzmühle returnee assembly camp in memory of the at least 678 victims of forced labor
- Graves and memorial stone in the local cemetery where some of the victims of forced labor are buried
literature
- Richard Steche : Kauschwitz. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 11th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Plauen . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1888, p. 12.
Web links
- Kauschwitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Area of the district in the 9th Official Statistics Report 2014, Chapter 3.01. Retrieved August 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Population of the district in the 9th Official Statistics Report 2014, Chapter 5.02. Retrieved August 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Gerd Kramer: Stadtentwicklung Plauen , page 64–65 in: Brigitte Unger, Werner Pöllmann u. a. (Ed.): The Vogtland Atlas. Regional atlas on nature, history, population, economy and culture of the Saxon Vogtland . 3. Edition. Verlag Klaus Gumnior, Chemnitz 2007, ISBN 978-3-937386-18-8
- ↑ Result of the election to the local council on May 26, 2019. Accessed on October 7, 2019 .
- ^ Result of the election to the local council on May 25, 2014. Accessed on May 26, 2014 .
- ^ Result of the election to the local council on June 7, 2009. Accessed March 1, 2013 .
- ^ Result of the election to the local council on June 13, 2004. Accessed on March 1, 2013 .
- ^ Result of the election to the local council on June 13, 1999. Accessed on March 1, 2013 .
- ^ Result of the election to the municipal council on June 12, 1994. Accessed March 1, 2013 .
- ↑ Plauen and the middle Vogtland (= values of our homeland . Volume 44). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1986.
- ↑ Church chronicle on the occasion of the rededication in 1994, author: Waltraud Klopfer, Kauschwitz