Sössen
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Location of Sössen in Lützen
Sössen is a district of the town Lützen in Burgenland district, in Saxony -Anhalt.
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 3.3 flag
- 4.1 traffic
Geography
Sössen located between Leipzig and Weissenfels. Geographically, the town of Leipzig lowlands is assigned. Furthermore Sössen counts with its suburbs, due to the coal-bearing subsurface for " lignite reserve deposit Lützen ".
Community structure
The village consists of three hamlets Sössen Gostau, Sössen and Stößwitz.
History
The district Gostau is the oldest, he already took place in 1012 his documentary was first mentioned. The district Sössen is demonstrated for the first time in 1277 and the Slavic cul de sac village Stößwitz is dated to the year 1432.
The municipality was incorporated Sössen by law on 1 January 2011 in the town Lützen and thereby lost its political independence. She was a member until its dissolution of the joint management Lützen - meadow, which had its headquarters in the town of Lutzen and also ceased to exist on 1 January 2011.
Policy
Parish council
The municipal council of Sössen was composed before his resolution of 8 council women and councilors.
- Single applicant 7 seats
(As at municipal election on September 5, 2004)
Coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on 1 July 2009 by the county.
Blazon: "In red over a raised silver Wellenschildfuß a silver water tower with brick, black gefugtem tower shaft between the front a silver oak branch with three (1:2) acorns and two leaves and the back of a flying silver dove, the sign foot occupied by above a blue wave beams and below a left -turned red plow. "
The colors of the former municipality are white - Red
The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg Kommunalheraldiker Jörg Mantzsch.
Flag
The flag is red-white- red ( 1:4:1 ) striped ( cross- shape: strips horizontally extending, longitudinal shape: strip running vertically ) and centrally occupied with the municipal coat of arms.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
West of the village area runs the Autobahn A9 (Berlin -Nuremberg ), northwest of the federal highway 87, which runs from White Rock to Leipzig and north of the federal motorway 38 Göttingen - Leipzig.
Postcard from Sössen from 1900 with Gasthof zur golden nightingale, bowling alley, school and mine
Brown coal deposits and mining plans
The village Sössen counts due to their coal-bearing substrate with the lignite deposit, which is located under and around Lutzen and belongs geologically to the White Elster basin of Leipzig lowlands. In 1920 the mining Gustav Adolf was unlocked. Due to problems with the water system degradation but had to be set back in 1929. A striking Bauzeuge from this period is the still existing, but dilapidated coal feed system, which was built not far from skirts parallel to the already back -built railway line. After 1990, the dump of the mine was planted with softwood plants. Extensive mining plans in the form of a large open pit were not realized in the following period, especially during the existence of the GDR, albeit 1984-1985 exploration drilling at the request of District Planning Commission of the District Hall were performed in Lützen field that the future devastation of the municipality skirts under proclaimed by the SED energy economic policy to "radical exploitation of all lignite deposits " ROCHE earliest after 2000.
In early February 2006, the Central German lignite mining company known to carry out exploratory drilling to investigate the coal quality in the communities skirts and Sössen regarding a possible future development. This sample drilling began on 20 July 2006 in the district Stößwitz, which drew protests from the residents. It formed a citizens' initiative that works now with the initiatives of the neighboring municipality of skirts and the nearby town of Lützen together. On 10 February 2007, the acting against the brown coal mining citizens' initiatives of skirts and Sössen their merger and the candidate declared the Coalition for Action " future instead of brown coal " in Schneidlingen. Population surveys in both communities were an overwhelming majority of citizens, which is to the decomposition of an open pit and wants to defend their homeland.