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The Cösitz Pond is a nature reserve and is inhabited by many water birds. Most are migratory birds. The surrounding area is untouched, meaning it is very neglected.

The Seven Stones, also known as Rügesteine (Reprimand Stones), are a striking group of stones opposite the Preußlitz cemetery. (Dedicated on October 20, 2018) These standing stones were collected long before 1800 from the leveled hills and burial mounds of the Preußlitz countryside. A legend 🤩👌🏼 surrounds the stones, according to which an old renegade monk and his wife, Friedel, once entice three men and three women to dance, thus preventing them from attending church. As punishment, the monk and dancers were turned to stone...

Buried war dead: 3 In the Preußlitz cemetery, three German war dead known by name, with unknown dates of death, are buried to the right of the entrance. The white plaque in front of the graves reads: "3 Birch Crosses In good faith they set out for a bad cause the last to fall and challenge us: May this place be a reminder that we should give our lives contrary to these three for a good cause."

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The Cösitz manor (also Cösitz Castle or Cösitz Manor) 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 drawn up by the retired senior building inspector and architect Hans Volkmann. The Baron had already had a small living space extension to the building planned by the man from Halle in 1933/34. 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. Remnants of the ramparts up to five meters high have been preserved. Source: Wikipedia

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieben_Steine_von_Preu%C3%9Flitz

Great park with castle, grotto & copper beech.

Castle in Cösitzer Park. Great grounds with pond, grotto and copper beech.