Cotta (Dresden)

Today, the district is centrally located in the western part of the state capital and features the mouth of the Weißeritz River. Predominantly characterized by buildings from the Wilhelminian period, only a few houses from the historic village center still remain in Cotta. Cotta lies on the banks of the Elbe, which flows through the Ostragehege and Übigau before reaching the left boundary of the Elbe valley at that point and forming a steep bank that extends all the way to Kemnitz. As a result, the 600-meter-long Cotta Bank's Elbe meadows are extremely constrained. The low-lying areas of the district along the Elbe have been shaped by the fluviatile, eroded valley and the river sediments. A few kilometers west of Cotta, near the village of Mobschatz, begins the Meißner Hochland, a left-island plateau. It is characterized by gradually rising slopes towards the southwest and has a subsoil with a strong layer of plains.