Bad Lauchstädt

Basic data
State :	Saxony-Anhalt
County :	Saalekreis
Height :	114 m above sea level NHN
Area :	85.37 km 2
Residents:	8773 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	103 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	06246
Primaries :	034635, 034636 , 0345
License plate :	SK, MER, MQ, QFT
Community key :	15 0 88 025
LOCODE :	DE BF5
City structure:	6 districts
; City administration address :	Markt 1 ; 06246 Bad Lauchstädt
Website :	www.goethestadt-bad-lauchstaedt.de
Mayor :	Christian Runkel ( CDU )
Location of the city of Bad Lauchstädt in the Saalekreis

Bad Lauchstädt , officially Goethestadt Bad Lauchstädt ( listen ^?^/^I ) (until 1925 Lauchstädt ), is a town in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

location

Bad Lauchstädt is on the edge of the Querfurter Platte on the Laucha . The city is located about 8 km north of the Geiseltalsee , 11 km west of Merseburg and 21 km southwest of Halle (Saale) . The district of Klobikau is located on the north bank of the Geiseltalsee.

City structure

Districts are Bad Lauchstädt, Delitz am Berge, Großgräfendorf, Klobikau, Milzau and Schafstädt. The village bears the name of the district. The districts of Bad Lauchstädt and Großgräfendorf form the village of Bad Lauchstädt.

Locality	Residents	Districts
Bad Lauchstädt	4715	Bad Lauchstädt, Kleinlauchstädt , Sankt Ulrich, Schotterey and Großgräfendorf
Delitz am Berge	840	Delitz
Klobikau	580	Niederklobikau, Oberklobikau, Wünschendorf, Raschwitz, Reinsdorf
Schafstädt	2179	Schafstädt
Spleen	915	Bischdorf , Burgstaden, Kleingräfendorf, Krakau, Milzau, Netzschkau, Oberkriegstedt, Schadendorf and Unterkriegstedt

history

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Spring in Bad Lauchstädt

Bad Lauchstädt in the Advent season

Historical spa facilities

Establishment and development of the place

In a register of the tithe of the Hersfeld monastery , which was created between 881 and 899, Lauchstädt, named after the Laucha tributary of the Saale , is mentioned for the first time twice as a place of tithe, Lochstat im Friesenfeld . Since the 1341 fiefdom of the dukes of Braunschweig , the settlement came to the bishops of Merseburg in 1370 , who granted the town town charter in 1430 and expanded an existing castle into a Renaissance palace in the 16th century. In 1657 Merseburg became the seat of a sideline of the Electoral Saxon Albertines . The Lauchstädter Schloss was the residence of the dukes of Saxony-Merseburg from 1684 to 1738 . Until 1815, Lauchstädt was the main town of the Lauchstädt administrative district of Merseburg , which had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 .

On February 14, 1701 around 9 a.m. in Lauchstädt in a violent storm wind, a conflagration broke out, which quickly cremated 34 houses, including the parish and school. In the previous year, 27 houses in Lauchstädt were destroyed in three fires, i.e. a total of 61 houses within two years.

Around 1700, the insignificant country town took a positive turn: a mineral spring was discovered by chance, the medicinal properties of which was confirmed by the University of Halle . This is how the Lauchstädter Heilbrunnen water, which is still available today, was created. Then Duchess Erdmuth Dorothea took care of the establishment of a bath. She had the spring bordered and the first spa facilities expanded. When the Sachsen-Merseburg branch line died out in 1738, the inheritance fell back to Electoral Saxony. That was a stroke of luck, because in the second half of the 18th century Lauchstädt became the preferred bathing resort of the Dresden court and enjoyed a significant economic boom as an exclusive fashion spa. A Kursaal and a play pavilion were built and a summer theater was installed. The construction of the spa park has started.

New Schiller House

The literary significance of the seaside resort began with Goethe's visit . In 1802 he lived in Lauchstädt for four weeks and organized the inauguration of the theater with the prelude What we bring and the performance of Mozart's opera La clemenza di Tito . He came back several times in the following years, and his wife Christiane in particular was a welcome visitor. Important artists and scholars of the time met: Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , Johann Christoph Gottsched , Christoph Martin Wieland , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling . Schiller had already got engaged to Charlotte von Lengefeld here in 1789 .

After the Weimar actors gave their last guest appearance in 1814, Lauchstädt lost its appeal. Due to the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Lauchstädt fell to Prussia . Lauchstädt in 1816 the county Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Prussian province of Saxony allocated.

In 1865 it says:

"The once so frequented Bad Lauchstädt, however, is almost deserted."

- Allgemeine Medizin Zentral-Zeitung, Volume 34, 1865, Col. 515

The theater was not used again until 1908, then again in 1968 with the performance of Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris . The spa facilities also flourished to a certain extent.

Since October 9, 2008, the city has been officially named Goethe City .

Incorporations

Church of St. Anna in Großgräfendorf

Klobikau, vineyard on the Geiseltalsee

Manor house in Schafstädt

Schotterey has belonged to Bad Lauchstädt since July 1, 1950. Großgräfendorf was added in 1998. Delitz am Berge, Klobikau and Schafstädt were incorporated in early 2008. Milzau followed in early 2010.

Former parish	date	annotation
Bischdorf	04/01/1937	Incorporation to Milzau
Burgstaden	07/01/1950	Incorporation to Milzau
Delitz am Berge	01/01/2008
Frohndorf	circa 1750	Assignment to Schotterey
Großgräfendorf	04/01/1998
Kleingräfendorf	07/01/1950	Incorporation to Milzau
Kleinlauchstädt	1939
Klobikau	01/01/2008
Krakow	04/01/1939	Incorporation to Kleingräfendorf
Spleen	01/01/2010
Netzschkau	04/01/1937	Incorporation to Milzau
Niederklobikau	07/01/1950	Merger with Oberklobikau to Klobikau
Oberklobikau	07/01/1950	Merger with Niederklobikau to Klobikau
Oberkriegstedt	04/01/1937	Incorporation to Burgstaden
Raschwitz	09/30/1928	Merger with Reinsdorf zu Wünschendorf
Reinsdorf	09/30/1928	Merger with Raschwitz zu Wünschendorf
Ortisei	1537
Schadendorf	04/01/1937	Incorporation to Burgstaden
Schafstädt	01/01/2008
Schotterey	07/01/1950
Rushes	circa 1750	Allocation to Großgräfendorf
Unterkriegstedt	04/01/1937	Incorporation to Burgstaden
Wish village	04/01/1937	Incorporation to Niederklobikau

politics

town hall

mayor

Christian Runkel has been the mayor since June 2015; his predecessor was Ilse Niewiadoma (FDP).

City council

After the city council election on May 26, 2019, the city council of the Goethestadt Bad Lauchstädt is composed as follows:

Political party	Number of seats
CDU	5
Free Electoral Association Bad Lauchstädt eV	3
The left	2
Milzau voter community	2
AfD	1
Citizens' list of Delitz am Berge	1
SV Germania Schafstädt eV	1
LSG Klobikau-Milzau 1899	1
SPD	1
Green	1
Individual applicants	1

In addition, the mayor, who was directly elected on March 29, 2015, also belongs to the city council.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the district on April 25, 2008.

Blazon : "In blue, an upright left-facing silver lion with a knocked-out tongue, carrying a golden castle with three crenellated towers in its front paws, the towers with kneaded pointed roofs and two arched openings one below the other."

The coat of arms was redesigned by the heraldist Lutz Döring .

flag

The flag is blue and white (1: 1) striped and has the coat of arms in the center.

Town twinning

Bad Lauchstädt is twinned with Haan in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Goethe Theater

Protestant church

Catholic Church

Goethe Theater , built in 1802 by Heinrich Gentz , together with the
Spa facility part of the Garden Dreams Saxony-Anhalt project
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Evangelical church , built 1685–1686, tower and sacristy from 1499, baptismal font from 1685, Chwatal organ from 1829
Catholic Church Maria Regina, consecrated in 1994, architect: Ralf Niebergall
Post mill Bad Lauchstädt, built in 1850
Saxon post milestone in Bad Lauchstädt ( quarter milestone , 18th century) at the Goethe Theater
Churches and manor houses in the districts, z. B. in Unterkriegstedt
Town hall on the market

Historical monuments

Several graves in the local cemetery , in which five Soviet prisoners of war and one Italian slave laborer were buried, who lost their lives in slave labor during the Second World War
Four graves in the cemetery of the Großgräfendorf district , in which four unknown, probably Polish or Italian forced laborers were buried

Regular events

Easter market
Well festival
Autumn market
Christmas market
Festival of the German Language

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

In addition to smaller industrial companies, larger employers such as Blumenbecker or Mineralbrunnen have also settled in Bad Lauchstädt.

In one of 19 caverns and a former natural gas field existing underground storage of VNG are about 5 percent of Germany's natural gas storage capacity.

traffic

Bad Lauchstädt train station

New Erfurt – Leipzig / Halle line

Street

Bad Lauchstädt is connected to the south Harz motorway A 38 ( Göttingen - Halle / Leipzig ) via the Schafstädt, Bad Lauchstädt and Merseburg-Nord junctions .

railroad

Until December 13, 2014, the stops Schafstädt, Großgräfendorf, Bad Lauchstädt West and Bad Lauchstädt on the Merseburg – Schafstädt railway line were served by the Burgenland Railway every hour. Rail traffic was discontinued due to low passenger numbers. The new high-speed railway line Erfurt – Leipzig / Halle runs between Bad Lauchstädt and the Milzau district .

bus

The public transport system is, among other things by the PLUSBUS of the country's network of Saxony-Anhalt provided. The following connections lead from / through Bad Lauchstädt:

Line 320: Bad Lauchstädt ↔ Delitz ↔ Holleben ↔ Angersdorf ↔ Halle
Line 728: Querfurt ↔ Schafstädt ↔ Bad Lauchstädt ↔ Knapendorf ↔ Merseburg

Bus traffic in the Saalekreis (Merseburg / Querfurt area) is operated by the Merseburg-Querfurt local passenger transport company .

Personalities

literature

David Friedel: Kurtze but adequate description, From the to Lauchstädt, in the Hochfürstl. Saxon. Merseburgis. Areas, Gesund or Sauer wells known several years ago, in which it is demonstrated that this water is exactly related to the world-famous Carls-Bad . Querfurth / Merseburg 1719 ( digitized version )
Johann Ernst Andreas Koch: Experiences about the effects of the Gesundbrunnen and the Bad zu Lauchstädt in the summers 1802 to 1805 . Voss, Leipzig 1806 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Bad Lauchstädt - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Lauchstedt in the Topographia Superioris Saxoniae (Matthäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Wikivoyage: Bad Lauchstädt - travel guide

Link catalog on Bad Lauchstädt at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).

↑ Main statutes of the Goethestadt Bad Lauchstädt (PDF)

^ Johann Jakob Egli : Nomina geographica. Language and factual explanation of 42,000 geographical names of all regions of the world. Friedrich Brandstetter, 2nd edition, Leipzig 1893, p. 527

^ Reg. Thur. No. 287

^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.

^ The district of Merseburg in the municipal directory 1900

↑ ^a ^b StBA: Area changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2008

↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .