Kottewitz (Nossen)

Kottewitz City of Nossen Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 49 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 21 ″  E
Residents :	74  (May 9, 2011)
Incorporation :	1935
Incorporated into:	Heynitz
Postal code :	01683
Area code :	035244

Kottewitz is part of the municipality of the Saxon city ​​of Nossen in the district of Meißen .

geography

Kottewitz on a map by Hermann Oberreit (before 1843)

Kottewitz is located about 7 kilometers east-northeast of Nossen in the middle of Saxony.

Neighboring towns of Kottewitz are Heynitz in the north, Zwuschwitz , Miltitz and Weitzschen in the northeast, Munzig in the east, Burkhardswalde and Perne in the southeast, Rothschönberg in the south, Elgersdorf and Mergenthal in the southwest, Mahlitzsch in the west and Wunschwitz in the northwest.

history

The first documented form of place names dates from around 1203 as Chotwiz, molendium . Ecclesiastically it has belonged to Heynitz since the Reformation in 1539. In 1818 August Schumann mentions Kottewitz in the State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony concerning a. a .:

“Most of the village is owned, with 14 ½  hooves , script . to the Heynitz manor , the smaller one is directly under the heir. The place is parish with the houses below, which are called the mountain, to Heynitz. There is a very good limestone quarry near the village, and here, like in Heynitz, you can find yellow ocher. "

In 1935 Kottewitz was incorporated into Heynitz. On January 1, 2003, the Heynitz community was incorporated into the city of Nossen, making Kottewitz a part of the community of Nossen since then.

Development of the population

year population 1547/51 11 possessed men , 29 residents 1 , 14 hooves 1764 12 possessed men, 15 gardeners , 8 cottagers , 14 ¼ hooves 1834 225 1871 250

year population 1890 212 1910 194 1925 190

¹ with Heynitz

Web links

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

• Kottewitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Nossen, city. (PDF; 1.3 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on May 23, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Cf. Kottewitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
3. ↑ See Kottewitz . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 5th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1818, p. 114.
4. ↑ Area changes from January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2003 on the website of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , p. 1 (PDF; 13 kB), accessed on January 29, 2012.