Schleesen

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

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Geography

Schleesen is about 15 km southwest of Wittenberg on the edge of the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve and the Duebener Heath. As districts of the former municipality Naderkau and Bräunigk were reported.

History

On December 12, 1200 Schleesen was first mentioned as Selezne in a document of Woerlitzer monastery documented. Around 1250, the church was built in its foundations.

Towards the end of World War II massacre of the Waffen- SS took place in the forest between Naderkau and Schleesen in which arbitrary 14 Soviet forced laborers from neighboring Radis and her German interpreter, the teacher Bruno Spisper, were shot. A memorial erected in 1961 at the crime scene reminded.

On 1 January 2010, until then independent municipality Schleesen was incorporated together with the communities Dabrun, Eutzsch, Rackith, Radis, Rotta, Selbitz, Uthausen and wait castle in the city Kemberg. At the same time the management of Community Kemberg, belonged to the Schleesen was dissolved.

Culture and sights

Regular events

The Rose Festival is held annually since 1972 on the third weekend in July.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Schleesen is on the road L 132 of Oranienbaum to Radis and on the county road K2040 of Selbitz after Schleesen. At the federal highway 107 which Graefenhainichen and Coswig connects it is approximately 6 km. At the federal highway 100 which Graefenhainichen and Wittenberg connects, is about 5 km. The motorway junction ( A 9) Dessau -Ost is about 12 km away.

The nearest railway station is at Radis ( line Wittenberg and Bitterfeld ). Until 1955, joined a pit railway line mountain joke with the power plant Zschornewitz. This railway line ran southeast of the community. Here was also a loading station. Parts of the discontinued railway embankment were later used as access road for the lignite mining Golpa -Nord.

Personalities

  • Richard Bartmuß (1859-1910), German composer
  • Gottfried Fähse (1764-1831), classical scholar and educator
  • Moritz Karl August ax (1801-1862), educator and philologist
  • Place in the district of Wittenberg
  • Kemberg
  • Former municipality ( district of Wittenberg )
Wittenberg (district) Selbitz (Elbtal) Wartenburg (Kemberg) Kemberg (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) Coswig (Anhalt)
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