Zöckeritz
Zöckeritz is the desolation of a village that was located southeast of Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt and fell victim to the mining of brown coal by the Goitzsche opencast mine in 1956 . Today only the name Zöckeritzer See reminds of the former village.
history
Zöckeritz was first mentioned in a document in 995 as Ezerisco . It was originally a fiefdom of Count Asic, which was then owned by King Otto III. was given to the diocese of Meissen . The place belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office Bitterfeld until 1815 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna he came to Prussia and in 1816 the district Bitterfeld in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 22 f.
- ^ The district of Bitterfeld in the municipality register 1900
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 54 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 24 ″ E