Grand Koshen
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Koshen Kóšyna City of Senftenberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '42 " N , 14 ° 3' 34" E
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| Height : | 106 m |
| Residents : | 1332 (Jan. 1, 2019) |
| Incorporation : | December 31, 2001 |
| Postal code : | 01968 |
| Area code : | 03573 |
Großkoschen , Kóšyna in Lower Sorbian , is a district of the Brandenburg district town Senftenberg in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district . The part of the municipality Kleinkoschen (Kóšynka) belongs to Großkoschen .
geography
The place is in Niederlausitz at the foot of the Koschenberg. To the west and northwest, the Senftenberger See borders directly on Großkoschen. To the southwest are the Senftenberg districts of Hosena and Peickwitz , north of Großkoschen, separated by the Black Elster , is the municipality of Kleinkoschen. In the east and south, the Saxon community Elsterheide with the community parts Geierswalde and Tätzschwitz as well as the small town Lauta border the place.
history
Interpretation and development of the place name
The name Koschen is derived from the Slavic Kosua and means wicker basket or fish trap . This indicates that both basket weaving and the abundance of fish in the area were an important source of income for the inhabitants.
The place was first mentioned in documents in 1408. In a certificate issued on May 14, 1461, the name Grosen Koscho was mentioned. The name developed from Grosse Koschin in 1474 to the name we know today.
Local history
Großkoschen was founded as a Sorbian village at the foot of the Koschenberg . Settlement and soil finds on Koschenberg go back to the Bronze Age . The document of the now known first mention from the year 1408 is the interest letter from Hans von Polenz , in which the hammer mill on the way to Großkoschen is mentioned. This was located west of the village and was devastated in 1960/61 by the Niemtsch opencast mine .
With its height of 176.4 meters above sea level, the Koschenberg is an elevation visible from afar in the lowlands of the Lusatian glacial valley . He had the illustrious name Olymp of the Elstertal . The Koschenberg is used as a quarry ; Greywacke , green stone and granite are extracted here.
From around 1400 on the Koschenberg stood a chapel donated by the von Köckritz men and dedicated to St. Laurentius . Annually on the name day of the saint, on August 10th, the Laurentiusmarkt took place on the Koschenberg. Only in the post-Reformation period did Elector Moritz move the market to Senftenberg. The chapel then fell into disrepair and the material was used to build houses. The bell, cast in 1512, was still used in the church in Lauta . At the time of the Saxon Elector Christian I , a watch tower was built on the summit of the Koschenberg. In 1628 it was already dilapidated. In 1633, during the Thirty Years War , the ruins of the tower were finally destroyed by Croatians .
With the opening of the opencast mines in Lower Lusatia, more and more German industrial workers settled there, which pushed the Sorbian language back further.
During the Second World War , a satellite camp of the Groß-Rosen concentration camp was set up in Großkoschen .
On January 1, 1974, the neighboring village of Kleinkoschen was incorporated into Großkoschen. From 1992 to the end of 2001 Großkoschen was part of the Am Senftenberger See office . On December 31, 2001, Großkoschen was incorporated into Senftenberg. Lothar Berg is the local mayor.
Since September 9th, 2016 Großkoschen with the municipality part of Kleinkoschen belongs to the urban area of Senftenberg that has been awarded the status of a state-recognized resort .
Population development
| Population development in Großkoshen from 1875 to 2000 | |||||||||||
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| year | Residents | year | Residents | year | Residents | year | Residents | year | Residents | year | Residents |
| 1875 | 439 | 1933 | 730 | 1964 | 1003 | 1989 | 1026 | 1993 | 1028 | 1997 | 1377 |
| 1890 | 470 | 1939 | 890 | 1971 | 987 | 1990 | 1011 | 1994 | 1042 | 1998 | 1441 |
| 1910 | 701 | 1946 | 1014 | 1981 | 1051 | 1991 | 1010 | 1995 | 1147 | 1999 | 1508 |
| 1925 | 727 | 1950 | 1010 | 1985 | 1076 | 1992 | 1015 | 1996 | 1240 | 2000 | 1524 |
Culture and sights
Attractions
The Protestant village church was built in the neo-Gothic style in 1881/1882 . In front of the village church there is a war memorial for those who fell in the First World War . At the opposite end of the village square there is a memorial to the centenary of the wars of liberation.
In a typical Senftenberg four-sided courtyard from 1864, at the end of the village green is the Großkoschen museum courtyard. The farm is a listed building and is one of the last and very well preserved historical farms in the region. The museum gives an insight into the historical economic forms of a farm around 1900. In addition to a large number of agricultural implements, the daily work on the farm can be experienced and viewed. The focus is on the cultivation of old crops such as flax , buckwheat , woad , parsley as well as the keeping of domestic animal breeds threatened with extinction and their use, for example beekeeping . The farm includes a horse peg , rural household milling and a bakery . The local historian Wilhelm Ratthey noticed during his hikes in the Senftenberg area that special farm forms are particularly common. He distinguished 6 different types. The term Senftenberger Vierseitenhof comes from Ratthey. The courtyards were mostly built between 1820 and 1880 and made of field stones. The massive and closed construction is also a striking feature. The four-sided shape consists of a gatehouse, residential building and stable buildings. At the back it is closed by a shed or an attached barn. The museum courtyard is a monument of the city of Senftenberg , just like the farmstead at Dorfplatz 22 and the restaurant at Dorfplatz 1.
In the course of the flooding of the charred Niemtsch opencast mine until 1973, the Senftenberger See was created. This quickly developed into a popular local recreation area for locals and a holiday area for tourists with bathing beaches, holiday parks, children's holiday camps (in the meantime dismantled) and the lake sports center. In Großkoschen there is a landing stage for the motor ship Santa Barbara and the solar boat Aqua Phönix, which offers excursions on the lake or the crossing through the Koschen Canal (including ship tunnel and lock) to Lake Geierswalder .
In May 2001 an amphitheater was opened in Großkoschen directly on Lake Senftenberg . The theater can seat 600 spectators. It combines classic and modern elements. The semicircular playing area and the rising benches are laid out in the style of Greek theater . In addition, it has modern lighting, sound and stage technology. The 17 x 30 meter play area and the balcony above the stage as an additional play area are well suited for spoken and musical theater. Plays, stage shows and open air concerts are staged during the summer season.
On May 8, 2008, the newly designed town center was inaugurated for around 460,000 euros. A roundabout was laid out and a fountain square was created. The fountain consists of several blocks of green stone. Water flows from the largest one every day from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. The fountain is framed with a metal triangle on which the legend of Koschenberg is depicted. The tip of the triangle points to the Koschenberg.
Sports
The most successful club Großkoschen is the RSV Großkoschen 1921 e. V., who was GDR champion several times in cycling and also won numerous German championship titles in the youth field after the fall of the Wall. Tim and Eric Lehmann were German champions four times.
The LSC Großkoschen organizes the Großkoschener Lake Run every year.
The Großkoschener football club, TSG Großkoschen, consists of two men's teams and one junior team. The first team played in the district league south in the 2014/2015 season.
economy
In the family park, founded in 1973, there are around 2,300 places available.
In addition to tourism, Basalt AG, which mines Grauwacke on Koschenberg, is Großkoschen's largest employer.
legend
The legend of the blue flower from Koschenberg tells of a shepherd who picked the blue flower and thus got access to the treasure in Koschenberg. In the mountain he took some of the treasure, but forgot the most important thing there, namely the flower, which was the key to the Koschenberg. So he was denied access to the treasure again.
literature
- Isolde Rösler, Heinz Noack (editor of the Senftenberg district museum ): Senftenberger See Historical walks through Buchwalde, Kleinkoschen, Großkoschen, Hosena, Peickwitz, Niemtsch, Brieske, Colony Marga , 1993, Geiger-Verlag Horb am Neckar, ISBN 3-89264-872-7
Footnotes and individual references
- ↑ Torsten Richter: Koschener certificate could be older. (No longer available online.) In: Lausitzer Rundschau , Senftenberg edition. May 27, 2008, archived from the original on February 25, 2008 ; accessed on September 28, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Verlag CH Beck, Munich (9 volumes; 2005–2009).
- ↑ Isabell Sprenger: Groß-Rosen . A concentration camp in Silesia. Böhlau Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-412-11396-4 .
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2001
- ↑ Press release from the Brandenburg Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy from September 9, 2016
- ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 kB) District Oberspreewald-Lausitz. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, accessed on September 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Torsten Richter: Großkoschen is happy about the new town center. (No longer available online.) In: Lausitzer Rundschau, Senftenberg edition. May 9, 2008, archived from the original on February 25, 2008 ; accessed on September 28, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Homepage of TSG Großkoschen
- ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau from June 14, 2017
Web links
Brieske (Brjazki) | Großkoshen (Kóšyna) with Kleinkoschen (Kóšynka) | Hosena (Hóznja) | Niemtsch (Nimješk) | Peickwitz (Tśikojce) | Sedlitz (Sedlišćo)