Rößgen

Rößgen City of Mittweida Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 26 ″ N , 12 ° 58 ′ 52 ″ E
Residents :	1393 (1900)
Incorporation :	November 1, 1900
Incorporated into:	Mittweida
Postal code :	09648
Area code :	03727
Location of Rößgen in Saxony

Rößgen is a district of the large district town of Mittweida in the Saxon district of Central Saxony . It was incorporated into the city of Mittweida in 1900.

geography

Rößgen adjoins the northern urban area of Mittweida. The place lies in the central Saxon hill country . The "Mittweidaer Aue" or "Rößgener Aue" is located in this area at the uppermost end (west shore) Kriebstein accumulated Zschopau .

Neighboring places

Lauenhain	Ringethal	Weissthal
Mittweida		Kockish
	Mittweida

history

The Waldhufendorf Rößgen was mentioned around 1300 as "Roschin". Later place names are "Rosgen" (1303), "Rozsichen, Rozchen" (1378), "Röschen" (1551) and "Rößgen" (1875).

In administrative terms, Rößgen belonged to the "castrum Rochlitz" as early as 1378, and around 1606 to the Rochlitz office . At that time, the council of Mittweida was the landlord of the place. In 1764, Rößgen and Kockisch became official villages of the Hereditary Office of Meißen as exclaves . In 1832 both places were subordinated to the Office of Frankenberg-Sachsenburg . The offices were dissolved during the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Saxony in the 19th century . As a result, Rößgen came under the administration of the Mittweida court office in 1856 . In 1875 the place was subordinated to the administration of the administrative authority Rochlitz . On November 1, 1900, Rößgen was the first place to be incorporated into the city of Mittweida.

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , Rößgen and Mittweida came to the Hainichen district in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Hainichen from 1990 and was newly formed during the administrative reform that took place in 1994 Mittweida district rose. Since 2008, the city of Mittweida and its districts have been part of the newly formed Central Saxony district .

Development of the population

year	population
1551	19 possessed men , 21 residents
1764	10 possessed men, 13 gardeners , 19 cottagers , 4½ hooves each 24 bushels
1834	342

year	population
1871	541
1890	832
1900	1393

Economy and Transport

Rößgen was an agricultural farming village until the beginning of the 20th century. In the course of industrialization after 1870, the grinding mill at Gottesaubach developed into a leather factory. On the steep slope of the Gottsaubach, the "Waldheimer Straße" was built in the second half of the 19th century with apartments for workers from the Weißthal spinning mill.

As a result, Rößgen experienced enormous population growth. After the incorporation to Mittweida, the name "Rößgen" remained despite the introduction of street names in the vernacular. The local area, which now merges seamlessly into the neighboring city of Mittweida to the south, is a popular residential area, especially the “Lauenhainer Straße”, the “Auenblicksiedlung” and the “Ringethaler Weg”.

There is a connection to the Riesa – Chemnitz railway in Mittweida.

Culture

education

Rößgen received its own school in 1878, which was only used until it was incorporated into Mittweida in 1900.

religion

Ecclesiastically Rößgen belonged to Mittweida as early as 1555. Today the Protestant church members belong to the Evangelical Lutheran parish Mittweida.

Attractions

Kriebstein dam : between 1927 and 1929, the Kriebstein dam was built north of the town by damming the Zschopau. Rößgen is located south of the upper end of the dam. The “Rößgener Aue”, also called “Mittweidaer Aue”, is well worth seeing. The southernmost landing stage for boats at the Kriebstein dam is located on this part of the Zschopau bank. During the season there is the possibility of taking motorboat trips to Kriebstein and Lauenhain or tours across the Zschopau.

Zschopautal area hiking and cycling path through the "Mittweidaer Zschopautal" nature reserve

Web links

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

Rößgen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
History of Rößgen on the homepage of the city of Mittweida
Homepage of the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Mittweida
Homepage of the Kriebstein dam with the ferry connections to Mittweidaer Aue

Individual evidence

↑ History of Rößgen on the homepage of the city of Mittweida
↑ Karlheinz Blaschke (ed.): Historical local directory of Saxony , new edition, Leipzig 2006, p. 638, ISBN 3-937209-15-8
^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 46 f.
↑ The locations of the Frankenberg-Sachsenburg district in the 19th century in the "Handbuch der Geographie"
^ The Rochlitz district administration in the municipal register 1900
↑ Timetable of the passenger ships on the Kriebstein dam

[1] History of Rößgen on the homepage of the city of Mittweida

[2] Karlheinz Blaschke (ed.): Historical local directory of Saxony , new edition, Leipzig 2006, p. 638, ISBN 3-937209-15-8

[3] Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 46 f.

[4] The locations of the Frankenberg-Sachsenburg district in the 19th century in the "Handbuch der Geographie"

[5] The Rochlitz district administration in the municipal register 1900

[6] Timetable of the passenger ships on the Kriebstein dam