HISTORY OF COTTBUS
HISTORY OF COTTBUS
On the oldest document , which contains the name of the city and goes back to the year 1156, you can read about "Heinricus castellanus de Chotibuz". Probably the name was derived from the Slavic; nowadays the Wends living in and around Cottbus call the city "Chosebuz". The german colonization started with increased force in the 13th century.
At the beginning of the 15th century the local clothier and linen-weaver got guild law and at 1900 every second Cottbuser was clothier, dyer or fuller.
In the 19th century Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau (1785 to 1871) built the last great german parc: Branitz. Here you can promenade through a 90 ha large landscape with groups of trees and single trees, lakes and watercourses, meadows and flower-beds. Fürst Pückler was also a literary man and globetrotter. From his journeys he was inspirated to build monuments in egyptian style: a bridge and two pyramids. In the seapyramid he and his wife Lucie got their eternal rest.
Seapyramid "Tumulus"
The late baroc castle was built 1772 and serves nowadays as museum, the stables host changing expositions. Also remarkable are the italic pergola, the Cavalierhouse and the parc forge.
Castle Branitz
Cavalierhouse
Parc forge
At the beginning of the 20th centuary the city tried to raise its beauty also by building an art noveau theatre .
After the Second World War the city belonged to the soviet zone of occupation, later to the German Democratic Republic. Lots of destroyed buildings had to be reconstructed and old sectors of economy were rebuilt: lignite mining and clothier industry.
After the German reunification in 1989 Cottbus became to a centre for banking and administration. Two years after the reunification the college of engineering, founded 1969, was transformed to the Technical University of Cottbus.
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