Niederrossau

Niederrossau municipality Rossau Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 49 ″  N , 13 ° 2 ′ 58 ″  E
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Postal code :	09661
Area code :	03727
Location of Niederrossau in Saxony

Niederrossau is a district of the municipality of Rossau in the district of central Saxony (Free State of Saxony ). On July 1, 1950, it was merged with Weinsdorf and Oberrossau to form the community of Rossau. The municipal office of the municipality of Rossau is located in Niederrossau.

geography

Niederrossau, entrance to the village

Geographical location and traffic

Niederrossau forms the north-western part of the town of Rossau, which has grown together structurally. The Auenbach flowing through the village flows into the Zschopau . Niederrossau is located northwest of the “Hainichen” junction of the federal motorway 4 , which can be reached via State Road 32 or State Road 201 in Oberrossau .

Neighboring places

Hermsdorf , Erlebach	Höckendorf
Weinsdorf		Oberrossau
Bürgerwald (to Mittweida )	Seifersbach

history

Rossau village church

Municipal office Rossau in Niederrossau

Fire station of the Rossau Volunteer Fire Brigade in Niederrossau

The place called "Rozzow" Rossau was first mentioned in 1378. At that time, no distinction was made between Ober- and Niederrossau. There is evidence for the mention of both places. a. for Niederrossau from 1551 as "Rossaw Nieder Gemeynn" and from 1791 as "Ober Roßau" and "Nieder Roßau". The listed Rossau Church in today's Niederrossau was built in 12/13. Century as a fortified church . It is therefore one of the oldest churches in Saxony. In 1483, George received from Honsberg to lock Schweta in Döbeln from Leisniger Burggrafen the village Rossau with dishes, interest and church fief. In 1551 Schweta became a manor and in 1555 Georg von Honsberg was the owner. He was master of Rossau and the large forest that went with it. Johann von Honsberg sold this forest to Elector Friedrich III in 1569 . Up to this time Rossau belonged to the Freiberg office , but since the sale as an official village to the Nossen office , which was formed in 1540 from the secularized property of the Altzella monastery in the year of.

Niederrossau, which has been demonstrably differentiated from Oberrossau since the 18th century, belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Nossen until 1856 . The offices were dissolved during the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Saxony in the 19th century . As a result, Niederrossau came under the administration of the Mittweida court office in 1856, and in 1875 under the newly established Rochlitz administration .

On July 1, 1950, the municipality of Niederrossau was merged with the municipalities of Weinsdorf (with the district Liebenhain ) and Oberrossau to form the municipality of Rossau, which, through the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, became the district of Hainichen in the Chemnitz district (1953 in the Karl-Marx district -City renamed) was affiliated. The municipal office of the municipality of Rossau is located in Niederrossau. Niederrossau belonged as part of the community of Rossau from 1990 to the Saxon district of Hainichen , which was merged in 1994 in the newly formed district of Mittweida and in 2008 in the newly formed district of Central Saxony.

Attractions

• Rossau village church

Web links

Commons : Niederrossau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Niederrossau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

• Niederrossau on the website of the Rossau History Association

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the Seifersbach parish with Rossau
2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 70 f.
3. ^ The Rochlitz district administration in the municipal register 1900
4. ↑ Niederrossau on gov.genealogy.net