Oberrossau

Oberrossau municipality Rossau Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 33 "  N , 13 ° 4 ′ 47"  E
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Postal code :	09661
Area code :	03727
Location of Oberrossau in Saxony

Oberrossau 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 Niederrossau to form the community of Rossau.

geography

View of Oberrossau

Geographical location and traffic

Oberrossau forms the southeastern part of the structurally cohesive town of Rossau. The Auenbach flowing through the village flows into the Zschopau . Oberrossau is north-west of the “Hainichen” junction of federal motorway 4 . State road 32 and state road 201 run through the village .

Neighboring places

Höckendorf	Grünlichtenberg	Greifendorf , Moosheim
Niederrossau		Crumbach , Schlegel
Seifersbach	Irbersdorf	Falkenau , Gersdorf

history

Gasthof in Oberrossau

Half-timbered house in Oberrossau

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.

Oberrossau, which has been demonstrably differentiated from Niederrossau 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, Oberrossau came under the administration of the Mittweida court office in 1856 and under the newly established Rochlitz administration in 1875 .

On July 1, 1950, the municipality of Oberrossau was merged with the municipalities of Weinsdorf (with the district Liebenhain ) and Niederrossau to form the municipality of Rossau, which became part of the Hainichen district in the Chemnitz district (1953 in the Karl-Marx district ) as a result of the second district reform in the GDR in 1952 -City renamed) was affiliated. As part of the community of Rossau, Oberrossau belonged to the Saxon district of Hainichen from 1990 , which was merged in 1994 in the newly formed district of Mittweida and in 2008 in the newly formed district of Central Saxony. Due to the direct location at the exit “Hainichen” of the federal motorway 4 , an industrial area developed in the south of Oberrossau near the expressway.

Attractions

• Water ski and wakeboard facility Rossau

Web links

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

Oberrossau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

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. ↑ Oberrossau on gov.genealogy.net
5. ↑ Website of the water ski and wakeboard facility Rossau