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Location of Kosilenzien within the city of Bad Liebenwerda
View into the village street
Church with a cemetery

Kosilenzien is a district of the city of Bad Liebenwerda in the Elbe-Elster district in Brandenburg and is located about 15 km south of the city not far from the border with Saxony on the edge of the Ziegram , a former 1000-hectare moor, swamp and peat area. In the west of the village you can find the forest area Grüne Heide .

The place has 218 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2016) and was incorporated in 1993.

history

Place in front of the castle wall at Kosilenzien
Path through the ramparts
Sports and playground

Development of the place name

The place had different place names and spellings throughout history,

1408 Kasselow 1422 Koselbitz 1443 Kaselwitz 1457 Kosilwitz 1501 Caselitz, Caselentz 1529 Kas (s) elentz, Koselentz 1550 Casilentz, Kasilenttzchen 1575 Koselentz, Koselentzigen 1590 Koselentzgen 1602 Cosilenzien.

In the variety of spellings, the basic form Kozlov-ici, "People of Kozel", remains clearly recognizable. Kozol (Lower Sorbian, West Slavic), Kòzol - the billy goat.

Local history

In the period between the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age , a rampart was built near the town as a refuge or protective castle. This earth castle measured about 400 meters in an oval. The castle wall was used by Germanic and Slavic tribes in later times . On the outskirts of the current village there is also a burial ground with urns and urns.

The place emerged around 1400 as a street village. In 1597 the first church in town was built. During the Napoleonic Wars in 1812, the peasants suffered from constant billeting of troops passing through. On April 16 of the same year a major fire destroyed several homesteads, the school and the old church. The subsequent rebuilding of the church collapsed in 1816, still unfinished. In 1817 the construction of today's church began, in which in 1870 a large and a small bell were installed in the church tower. In 1918 the small bell was removed for war purposes.

In 1921 a new small bell was hung and in 1939 the newly built school was moved into. In 1942 the big bell was used for war purposes.

Further construction work took place in the village later. The interior of the church was restored in 1955, a new large bell was installed in 1956 and a fire station was built in 1963 . In 1972 the first stables and the Burgwallhütte were built. In 1975 a new consumer building was built, which today houses the youth club, and in 1988 a multi-purpose building was built as a village community center .

After the fall of the Wall , numerous modifications were made in Kosilenzien. The village street, the sidewalks and the village lighting were renewed and water and sewage pipes were laid.

On December 6, 1993 Kosilenzien was incorporated into the city of Bad Liebenwerda.

More historical data

  • In 1835 Kosilenzien owned 49 houses with 299 inhabitants 54 horses, 232 head of cattle, 380 sheep, 5 goats and 46 pigs.
  • 16 residents were killed in the First World War .
  • Eighteen residents were killed in the Second World War .

population

Kosilenzien has always been a pure farming village and since the Schwarzgraben , today's Kleine Röder , still flowed wildly through the Ziegram , some farmers had boats that were moored at Kahngasse. With the beginning of industrialization, the residents of the village found wages and bread in Gröditz , Liebenwerda , Mühlberg / Elbe and in the Brottewitz sugar factory .

Culture and sights

A castle wall built around 3000–4000 years ago in the Ziegram is now one of the ground monuments in the Elbe-Elster district. Located directly on the newly built cycle path, it invites you to linger, relax and also to discover. Many rare animal and plant species are at home here.

The Burgwallfest has been taking place on the Whitsun weekend since 1979. Every year, many relatives, friends and acquaintances meet at Whitsun on the castle wall.

literature

  • M. Karl Fitzkow : "On the older history of the city of Liebenwerda and its district area - booklet 2" . 1961.
  • Wolfgang Eckelmann, Michael Ziehlke: Chronicle of the city of Liebenwerda. Edited by Association for City Marketing and Economy Bad Liebenwerda eV Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 250 to 251 .
  • Consilience . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 5th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1818, p. 88 f.

Web links

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

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Community and district directory of the state of Brandenburg. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg (LGB), accessed on June 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ year not secured
  3. ↑ Emilia Crome: "The place names of the Bad Liebenwerda district" . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1968.
  4. ^ Changes in the municipalities of Germany, see 1993 StBA
  5. ^ "Overview of the population and the cattle stock in 1835" in "The Black Elster - Our home in words and pictures" . No. 596 . Bad Liebenwerda 1985, p. 8 to 10 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '  N , 13 ° 20'  E