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Rössen is a district of the city of Leuna in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt .

history

Rössen is the eponymous site of the Neolithic Rössen culture . The extensively studied from 1882 to 1890 and 1918 burial ground probably contained more than 100 tombs mainly Rössen culture (4400-4200 v. Chr., Inhumations ) and the Gaterslebener culture (body and cremations ). It represents the largest Neolithic burial ground in central Germany .

Nikolaikirche

The 14th century Romanesque church of St. Nikolai is located in Rössen . It was a typical fortified church and can only be visited as a ruin.

Until 1815, Rössen belonged to the Merseburg High Custodial Office , which had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna the place came in 1815 to Prussia in 1816 the county Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony allocated.

The city of Leuna was created on July 1, 1930 through the merger of the rural communities of Leuna, Ockendorf, Rössen, Göhlitzsch, Daspig and Kröllwitz.

See also

literature

  • Jan Lichardus : Rössen - Gatersleben - Baalberge. A contribution to the structure of the Central German Neolithic and the emergence of the funnel cup cultures (= Saarbrücker Contributions to Classical Studies, Volume 17) . Bonn 1976; Review by Ulrich Fischer in: Germania Volume 56, 1978, pp. 574-581.
  • F. Niquet: The burial ground of Rössen, Merseburg district. In: Publ. Landesanstalt Volkheitskunde. 9. 1938, Halle / S.

Web links

Wikisource: Rösen in der Topographia Superioris Saxoniae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts
Commons : Rössen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas 1790 , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.
  2. ^ The district of Merseburg in the municipal directory 1900
  3. ↑ Leuna on gov.genealogy.net

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '  N , 12 ° 1'  E