Zöschen

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Zöschen
City of Leuna
Coat of arms of Zöschen
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 29 ″  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 58 ″  E
Height : 90 m
Area : 7.2 km²
Residents : 1000  (March 1, 2020)
Population density : 139 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2009
Postal code : 06237
Area code : 034638
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Location of Zöschen in Leuna

Zöschen is a district of the city of Leuna in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany). The place Zscherneddel belongs to Zöschen .

geography

Zöschen (Saxony-Anhalt)
Zöschen
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Location of Zöschen in Saxony-Anhalt
Zöschen, August 2018

Zöschen is located between Merseburg and Leipzig on the Luppe , south of the Raßnitzer See . To the west and north of the district are the Schkopau districts Wallendorf and Raßnitz , to the east and south the Leuna districts Zweimen and Kötzschau .

Local division

The village is made up of the two districts Zöschen and Zscherneddel.

Zscherneddel

history

Until 1815, Zöschen and Zscherneddel belonged to the Schkeuditz Office of Merseburg , which had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the Secondogeniture Principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 . By the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , Zöschen and Zscherneddel and the western part of the Schkeuditz office were ceded to Prussia in 1815. In the new political order Prussia they were in 1816 the county Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony allocated to which they belonged to the 1952nd On April 1, 1939, Zscherneddel was incorporated into Zöschen. During the district reform in the GDR, Zöschen and Zscherndeddel were assigned to the Merseburg district in the Halle district in 1952 , which came to the Merseburg-Querfurt district in 1994 and to the Saale district in 2007 .

From 2006 to 2009 Zöschen was part of the Leuna-Kötzschau administrative community . Until it was incorporated into the city of Leuna on December 31, 2009, Zöschen was an independent municipality.

Old town hall in Zöschen

politics

Church in Zöschen with the Ladegast organ

mayor

The last mayor of the municipality of Zöschen was Richard Schaaf.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue, a silver horse's head."

The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch .

The colors of Zöschen are white-blue.

Manor house Oberhof in Zöschen

Attractions

Memorial plaque to the French bride

The land manager Louis Staufer shot the landowner's twenty-year-old daughter in 1833 because of a tragic love affair, but failed in the subsequent suicide. In prison he wrote the poem "I patiently carry all sufferings", which was later set to music and became a folk song. A plaque commemorating the incident was put up in 1999.

Tourist routes

Zöschen is on the “Alte Salzstraße” cycle path, which stretches over 25 km from Merseburg (Saale cycle path) to the A 9 and from the state border with Saxony to Leipzig. It leads past the renatured open-cast mining holes "Wallendorfer See" and "Raßnitzer See". The Ecumenical Pilgrimage (St. James' Way) also goes through Zöschen.

Cultural highlights

A cultural highlight in village life is the annual “cake dinner” (14 days after Whitsun), a folk festival that has been taking place for centuries.

Memorials

Memorial stone in the cemetery of honor

Towards the end of the Second World War , in April 1944, a labor education camp was set up in the village for hundreds of prisoners who were doing forced labor in Leuna . A cemetery of honor with a memorial stone commemorates 500 prisoners who perished in air raids and because of inhumane conditions. A memorial stone of the Republic of Italy bears the inscription in two languages: “In memory of those who have fallen here”.

The common grave for eleven flak soldiers who died on November 4, 1944 is located in the cemetery .

Transport links

The federal highway 181 runs through Zöschen from Merseburg to Leipzig . The federal motorway 9 is in the immediate vicinity (after Günthersdorf towards Leipzig, approx. 5 km) from Zöschen. Operations on the Merseburg – Leipzig-Leutzsch railway , to which the Zöschen train station belonged, ceased in 1998.

school

Secondary school

The secondary school "Bertolt Brecht" is located in Zöschen, the nearest elementary school is in Wallendorf , a grammar school in Merseburg.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.
  2. ^ The district of Merseburg in the municipal directory 1900
  3. Zscherneddel on gov.genealogy.net
  4. StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009
  5. Leuna City Gazette 12-2016

Web links

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