KOSEN  , a

village and summer resort of Germany, in the Prussian province of Saxony, 33 M. by rail S. by W. of Halle, on the Saale . Pop . (1905), 2990 . The town has a mineral spring, which is used for bathing, being efficacious for rheumatism and other complaints . Kosen, which became a town in 1869, has large mill-works; it has a trade in wood and wine . On the adjacent Rudelsburg, where there is a ruined castle, the German students have erected a monument to their comrades who fell in the Franco-German War of 187o-71 . Hereon are also memorials to Bismarck and to the emperor William I . The town is famous as the central meeting-place of the German students' corps, which hold an annual congress here every Whitsuntide . See Techow, Fiihrer durch Kosen and Umgegend (Kosen, 1889) ; and Rosenberg, Kosen (Naumburg, 1877) .