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Church in Radegast, well-kept grounds

The Theure Christian is a road construction monument. It is considered the oldest road construction monument in Saxony-Anhalt. It is located on the old connecting road between Radegast, a district of the town of Southern Anhalt, and Zörbig in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Anhalt-Bitterfeld district, on the former state border between the Duchy of Saxony-Merseburg or later the Electorate of Saxony and the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau, later the Duchy of Anhalt. Until June 30, 2007, this was also the border of the districts of Bitterfeld and Köthen, which were merged in Saxony-Anhalt as a result of the second district reform. The monument was built in 1688 in the Baroque style to commemorate the fortification of the dam through the Fuhne lowlands between Radegast and Zörbig. It consists of a 5 m high substructure with a square base, the sides of which are each about 2 m long. It consists of quarry stone underpinning, sandstone base and shaft made of plastered bricks and sandstone cornice. The top, which is about 4 m high up to the top of the ball, is made of red sandstone and is divided into a pedestal, a pyramid and finally a large ball. The monument has little figurative decoration, but has the lavish decorations on the inscriptions typical of the Baroque period. Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theurer_Christian

It is a modern building. Concrete in the Romanesque style, with Art Nouveau-inspired decoration. A very attractive mixture. Unfortunately, I was not able to find out any more details.

In the year 750, there was already a Sorbian rampart on the site of today's manor, which was mentioned in documents in 839 when it was conquered by the Saxons. From 1370 to the middle of the 16th century, the complex was the ancestral seat of the Kositz family. After the plague of 1636 and pillage by Swedish troops in the Thirty Years' War, the village and the manor were desolate. In 1877, the rampart of the castle was demolished, which later enabled the construction of the east wing of the building. The building known today as the castle was built on behalf of Hubert Freiherr von dem Bussche-Lohe and his wife Jeannette von Wuthenau in 1891. The west wing was built in 1937, as was the English landscape park. The design for the new wing was created by the retired senior building inspector and architect Hans Volkmann.[2] The Baron had already had a small living space extension to the building planned by the man from Halle in 1933/34.[2] It remained in the von dem Bussche family until it was put up for auction in 1945. In recent years, the manor has been renovated and apartments have been built. In the landscape park there is still a beech tree with a trunk diameter of six meters and a crown of 38 meters, making it one of the thickest beech trees in Germany.[3][4] Remains of the rampart up to five meters high have been preserved from the rampart castle.[5] Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rittergut_C%C3%B6sitz

The Cösitz manor (also Cösitz Castle or Cösitz Manor) is a listed building on Burchard-Führer-Platz in the Cösitz district of the town of Zörbig in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district in Saxony-Anhalt. In the local monument register, the manor is listed as an architectural monument under registration number 094 13807.[1] Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rittergut_C%C3%B6sitz

The church is in the middle of the village. It invites people to worship on Sundays and Christian holidays and is of course also available to fellow Catholic Christians for their own worship services. The church in Cösitz was built in 1522, as the year next to the stone door shows. The age of this church goes beyond the church improvements. This is justified by the winged altar created by a great unknown master in the 15th century. Previously there was a chapel in Cösitz, the demolition of which was expressly approved by the Archbishop of Halberstadt. This wooden chapel stood on the mound of earth on which the current church stands, but was destroyed by fire. The bell in the tower was cast 1300 years ago and was probably taken over into the new church. In 1882 the old church was renovated, the tower was added and the organ (by Rühlmann, Zörbig) was reinstalled. The coats of arms on the choir windows are a reminder of the founding family, Baron von Bussche-Lohe and von Wuthenau. The second bell, donated in 1883, was taken away in 1917 to be melted down, as was the bell donated in 1936. And so only one bell rings over Cösitz, now with an electric bell. The absolute showpiece is the 500-year-old 3-winged Mary altar with its 15 gilded figures of saints carved from lime wood. It is not known when it came to Cösitz, but it must have been before the Reformation. It is assumed that the bell already belonged to the small chapel mentioned in the papacy. Cösitz therefore has a chapel and a stone church since 1522. Its construction is documented. Source https://www.stadt-zoerbig.de/Stadtleben/B%C3%BCrgerservice/Kirchen/index.php?object=tx%7C3940.5.1&ModID=7&FID=3940.21647.1&NavID=3940.132&La=1

Thomas Kuzio was born in 1959 in Altentreptow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. From 1981 he studied artistic glass design under Prof. Rüdiger Reinel at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle. He has been working freelance since 1990. In addition to commissions for secular buildings, he designed important windows for various churches, including the Naumburg and Merseburg cathedrals and the Ulm Minster. The early Radegast windows are considered a much-noticed major work by the artist, which marked his international breakthrough. Source https://www.landeskirche-anhalts.de/aktuell/farbenpracht-in-radegast