Zschochau

Zschochau District of Ostrau (Saxony) Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 50 "  N , 13 ° 11 ′ 46"  E
Height :	174 m
Incorporation :	April 1, 1968
Postal code :	04749
Area code :	034324

Evangelical Church of Zschochau

Zschochau is a district of Ostrau .

history

Evangelical village church Zschochau

The place was first mentioned in 1185 as a manor. Zschochau has a manor that is documented in writing in 1551. There is an airfield for paragliders on the outskirts. Zschochau lies in a valley.

The church was rebuilt in 1866 after a village fire and completely renovated in the early 1990s. The interior is well preserved and offers manor boxes and an organ by Franz-Emil Keller .

Population development

1834 to 1925 1834-526 1871-614 1890-601 1910-584 1925-622

1939 to 1990 1939-659 1946-1015 1950 - 1119 1964-880 1990-653

Source: Historical place directory of Saxony

people

• Conrad Schumann (1942–1998), border refugee at the Berlin Wall
• Lothar Moritz (* 1943), politician of the GDR CDU

literature

• Cornelius Gurlitt : Zschochau. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 41. Issue: Administrative Authority Meißen-Land . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1923, p. 580.

Web links

Commons : Zschochau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Zschochau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• DAZ village portrait: Zschochau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lordship in Zschochau ( memento from July 20, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )