Schleesen (Kemberg)

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Schleesen (Kemberg)
City of Kemberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 9 ″  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 75 m
Area : 23.67 km²
Residents : 536  (December 31, 2008)
Population density : 23 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 06785
Area code : 034904
Evangelical Church in Schleesen

Schleesen is a district of the city of Kemberg in the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Schleesen is located about 15 km southwest of Lutherstadt Wittenberg on the edge of the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve and the Düben Heath. Naderkau and Bräunigk were designated as districts of the former municipality.

history

Schleesen was first mentioned as Selezne in a document from the Wörlitz monastery on December 12, 1200 . Around 1250 the church was built in its foundations.

Towards the end of the Second World War , a massacre by the Waffen SS took place in the forest between Naderkau and Schleesen , in which 14 Soviet forced laborers from neighboring Radis and their German interpreter, the teacher Bruno Spisper, were arbitrarily shot. A memorial at the scene of the crime, built in 1961, commemorates this.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Naderkau was incorporated.

On January 1, 2010 the previously independent community Schleesen was incorporated into the city of Kemberg together with the communities Dabrun , Eutzsch , Rackith , Radis , Rotta , Selbitz , Uthausen and Wartenburg . At the same time the administrative community of Kemberg , to which Schleesen belonged, was dissolved.

Culture and sights

Regular events

The rose festival has been held annually on the third weekend in July since 1972.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Schleesen is on the state road L 132 from Oranienbaum to Radis and on the district road K 2 040 from Selbitz to Schleesen. It is approx. 6 km to the federal highway 107 that connects Graefenhainichen and Coswig . It is approx. 5 km to the federal highway 100 which connects Graefenhainichen and Wittenberg . The motorway connection ( A 9 ) Dessau-Ost is approx. 12 km away.

The next train station is in Radis ( Wittenberg - Bitterfeld line ). Until 1955, a mine railway connected Bergwitz with the Zschornewitz power station . This railway line ran southeast of the community. There was also a loading station here. Parts of the abandoned railway embankment were later used as an access road for the Golpa-Nord opencast lignite mine .

Personalities