Goseck

06632 Freyburg ( Unstrut)

The municipality is situated on the Saale Goseck and belongs to the municipality Unstruttal in the castle district of Saxony- Anhalt.

  • 3.1 municipality
  • 5.1 Music
  • 5.2 Regular events

Geography

Geographical Location

Goseck located on the northern escarpment of the Saale River, halfway between Naumburg and Weissenfels.

Expansion of the municipal district

At the Goseck located two kilometers north Markröhlitz, which was incorporated on July 1, 1950 belongs.

History

Main article: Solar Observatory of Goseck

Main article: Castle Goseck

The first traces of human settlement date back to the Neolithic Age around 5000 BC testimony that lays aerial photographs in the 1990s and discovered in 2003 exposed oldest solar observatory in Europe from. It is a grave circle system with a diameter of 75 meters from the period of the Middle Neolithic. It is the beginning of a millennia-old tradition of earlier astronomy, as it is depicted on the sky disc of Nebra, which was found in 1999, only 25 km away. By means of sighting devices, people could eg accurately determine the data of the summer or winter solstice. The reconstruction of the observatory was opened at the winter solstice on 21 December 2005 with a light and fire shows.

The place Goseck arose in connection with the foundation of the castle Goseck.

Policy

Community association

Goseck belongs to the municipality Unstruttal, which was formed on 1 January 2010.

Traffic

Goseck itself is only accessible via an access road from the hamlet of Markröhlitz. This is situated on the road from Naumburg, which opens into the federal highway 176 in the nearby Pettstädt.

Culture and sights

  • Castle Goseck with the " solar observatory Information Center"
  • Solar observatory of Goseck
  • Watermill
  • Memorial for Arthur Weisbrodt, the anti-fascist secretary of the Red Aid in the courtyard of Schloss Goseck. The memorial stone was erected in 1973, when he led by Anton Saefkow organized the resistance against the Nazi regime after prison and concentration camp stay in touch with the group and was murdered. The memorial stone was removed after 1990.

Church in Goseck

Half-timbered building in Goseck

Watermill in Goseck

Church in Markröhlitz

Stone tablet on a door arch of Markröhlitzer Church with the year 1694

Music

Since 1998, has its headquarters here demanding music recordings are produced and marketed worldwide under the brand RAUMKLANG Castle Goseck the CD label RAUMKLANG. Since the founding of the label in 1993 in Leipzig over 100 CDs already appeared.

Regular events

In the series Goseck Castle Concerts guesting international artists.

Personalities

  • Karl August Gottlieb Storm (1803-1886), Kantor, chronicler
  • Margitta Lueder - Preil ( b. 1939 ), actress
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