Kottmarsdorf

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Kottmarsdorf
Kottmar municipality
Coat of arms of Kottmarsdorf
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 45 "  N , 14 ° 37 ′ 33"  E
Height : 420 m above sea level NN
Area : 7.93 km²
Residents : 490  (March 31, 2019)
Population density : 62 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1999
Incorporated into: Obercunnersdorf
Postal code : 02708
Area code : 035875
Kottmarsdorf viewed from Ebersbach
Post mill Kottmarsdorf

Kottmarsdorf ( Sorb. Chotmarjecy ) is a district of the municipality of Kottmar in the district of Görlitz in southeast Saxony near the border with the Czech Republic . The name can be explained as a village on Kottmar or the Sorbs Chotemer.

geography

Kottmarsdorf is located directly on the connecting road built in 1828 between the cities of Löbau , Neugersdorf and Rumburk . The village extends over the Pfarrberg ( 435  m ); the southernmost part forms the tumult. To the south, in the valley of the bleached water, lies the Kühle Morgen, to the southwest the Harthe and the Raumbusch .

history

On May 1, 1306, Kottmarsdorf, of the forest hoof type, was first mentioned in a document as "Khotdmersdorpp". In 1346 the Kottmarsdorfer local church is mentioned for the first time as a daughter of the Löbauer church. In 1550 Erasmus von Gersdorf was the owner of Kottmarsdorf. The year 1585 went down in history as the great plague year . Other unlucky years were 1607 when the plague broke out again (70 residents died in Kottmarsdorf), 1617 when a great famine ravaged the place and 1633 when the plague broke out again in the village; the bodies were buried at night in the cemetery or at home without any ceremony.

Since January 1, 1999, the originally independent village of Kottmarsdorf has been part of the municipality of Obercunnersdorf . Since January 1, 2013, Kottmarsdorf belongs to the municipality of Kottmar.

Place name forms

1306: Khotdemersdorpp, Khotemersdorff, 1419: Cotmerßdorff, 1430: Kottemersdorff, 1442: Kotmarsdorff, 1564: Kuttmarsdorff, 1657: Cottmarsdorff, 1768: Kottmarsdorf

Administrative affiliation

1777: Bautzen district, 1843: Löbau district court, 1856: Löbau court office , 1875: Löbau district administration , 1952: Löbau district , 1994: Löbau-Zittau district, 2008: Görlitz district

Population development

year Residents
1777 18 possessed men,
15 gardeners, 36 cottagers
1834 811
1871 1,057
1890 977
1910 892
1925 895
1939 863
1946 926
1950 1,045
1964 933
1990 643
2013 (Feb. 28) 532

societies

Friends of nature and homeland Kottmarsdorf e. V., folk art group Kottmarsdorf e. V., hairdressing museum e. V., Turnverein Kottmarsdorf e. V.

Attractions

church
Entrance to the Soviet cemetery
  • fully functional, listed Kottmarsdorfer post mill (built in 1843 on the 435 m high Pfarrberg and in operation until 1943)
  • Baroque church (first mentioned in a document in 1346 and built in its current form in 1736, expanded by a 50 m high church tower in 1854)
  • Honor cemetery for fallen Russian soldiers on the main street
  • Hairdressing Museum (opened November 11, 2000), now closed
  • Heimatmuseum im Mühlenhaus (Heimatstube with changing exhibitions)

Sources and further reading

literature

  • Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Kottmarsdorf. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 34. Issue: Official Authority Löbau . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1910, p. 276.

Web links

Commons : Kottmarsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony: Kottmarsdorf  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Numbers and facts - population figures. Kottmar municipality, accessed on July 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 1999
  3. ↑ a b c Kottmarsdorf in the digital historical place directory of Saxony
  4. ^ Database of cemeteries in Saxony