Oschatz

Oschatz is a Saxon district town, is called the metropolis in the heart of Saxony and is positioned approximately fifty five km east of Leipzig at the railway Leipzig Dresden. The area of contemporary city has been inhabited since the Neolithic length. From the former Sorbian and early German Burgwardanlage in Altoschatz the place name Oscec came out. In 1200 a Johannes de Ozzetz became referred to, however the project to Oschatz is unsure. The city became first cited in 1238, wherein Ozzechz changed into stated in a record of the Margrave Henry III. Called by way of Meissen.

The oldest record in the city data, a Indulgenzbrief of the bishop Conrad of Meissen, is dated to 1246. In the yr 1344 the citizen resistance The Geharnischten became first referred to by way of the city union Oschatz, Torgau and Grimma, considering that 1365 also a schoolmaster is passed down. A Vestung became first named in Oschatz in 1377; a city watchtower became erected inside the place of contemporary museum. 1394 the metropolis was presented the marketplace right.