District of Leipzig

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Coat of arms of the district of Leipzig Map of Germany, position of the district of Leipzig highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 '  N , 12 ° 30'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
Administrative headquarters : Borna
Area : 1,651.3 km 2
Residents: 258,139 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 156 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : L , BNA, GHA, GRM, MTL, WUR
Circle key : 14 7 29
Circle structure: 30 parishes
Address of the
district administration:
Stauffenbergstrasse 4
04552 Borna
Website : www.landkreisleipzig.de
District Administrator : Henry Graichen ( CDU )
Location of the Leipzig district in Saxony
Landkreis Nordsachsen Leipzig Landkreis Leipzig Landkreis Mittelsachsen Chemnitz Landkreis Zwickau Vogtlandkreis Erzgebirgskreis Landkreis Görlitz Landkreis Bautzen Dresden Landkreis Meißen Landkreis Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge Freistaat Bayern Tschechien Thüringen Sachsen-Anhalt Brandenburg Polenmap
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The Leipzig district is a district in northwest Saxony that was formed in 2008 as part of the Saxon district reform . It was created through the merger of the previously existing districts of Leipziger Land and Muldentalkreis (both 1994–2008). The district town of Leipzig is Borna , the most populous city is Grimma .

Town hall of Borna, the third largest city in the district and seat of the district administration

location

The district is located south of the independent city of Leipzig on the border between Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt in the west and Thuringia in the southwest; In the north and east, the district of North Saxony and southeast of the district of central Saxony join.

Natural space

geography

The district is located in the Leipzig lowland bay and is fairly flat. Individual elevations can be found in the north ( Hohburger Berge ) and in the south of the district. Larger rivers are the Mulde , the Pleiße and the Weisse Elster . Worth mentioning are the many lakes in the Leipziger Neuseenland in the west of the district, which were created as a post-mining landscape as a result of the flooding of former lignite opencast mines .

natural reserve

Various areas in the district are designated as nature reserves (NSG), landscape protection areas (LSG), flora and fauna habitats (FFH) and European bird protection areas (SPA).

Nature reserves : see: List of nature reserves in the Leipzig district

Landscape protection areas :

No. SGVO (L-No.) Territory name Area (approx. Ha)
c01 Muldental-Chemnitztal (2 partial areas) 1,362
l03 Middle Mulde (district of Leipzig and northern Saxony) 9,647
l05 Dahlener Heide (district of Leipzig and northern Saxony) 17,469
l06 Hohburg mountains 2.017
l11 Parthenaue Machern (district of Leipzig and northern Saxony) 4,396
l14 Großsteinberg-Ammelshain 2,574
l15 Wermsdorfer Forst (district of Leipzig and northern Saxony) 10,586
l16 Colditzer Forest 4,876
l17 Pleißestausee Rötha 183
l22 Thümmlitzwald-Muldetal 11,558
l29 Kohrener Land (2 partial areas) 6,462
l30 Dübener Heide (2 sub-areas; Leipzig district and northern Saxony) 30,000
l32 Party area (2 sub-areas; Leipzig district and Leipzig city) 9,650
l37 Schnauderaue 468
l40 Elsteraue 3,166
l43 Wyhraaue (2 partial areas) 1,507

Sites of Community Importance (SCI, FFH) :

Country no. EU no. Territory name TF Total area of ​​FFH area (approx. Ha)
65 E. 4340-302 United Mulde and Muldeauen 8th 5,905
56 E. 4542-301 Mountains around Hohburg and Dornreichenbach 4th 301
198 4542-302 Lossa and backwaters 2 491
213 4641-301 Pond and forest areas around Machern and Brandis 3 216
52 E. 4641-302 Deciduous forest areas between Brandis and Grimma 4th 389
204 4644-302 Döllnitz and Mutzschener Wasser 3 1,347
218 4739-302 Elsteraue south of Zwenkau 1 915
224 4740-301 Oberholz and Störmthal meadows 2 198
214 4741-301 Deciduous forest areas of the upper Partheaue 2 253
225 4741-302 Rohrbacher ponds and Göselbach 1 191
230 4840-302 Wyhraaue and Frohburger Streitwald 3 434
227 4841-301 Deciduous forests around Beucha 2 80
228 4841-302 Post-mining landscape Bockwitz 1 564
237 4842-302 Trough valleys above the confluence 8th 2,301
236 4842-303 Colditz Zoo 1 98
234 4842-304 Kohlbach and Ettelsbachtal 1 144
235 4842-305 Erlbach and Auenbachtal near Colditz 1 433
54 E. 4941-302 Stöckigt and Streitwald 1 507

history

During the first Saxon district reform on August 1, 1994 , the former district of Leipzig was merged with the districts of Borna and Geithain to form the new district of Leipziger Land . At the same time, the two districts of Grimma and Wurzen merged to form the new Muldental district . With effect from August 1, 2008, the district of Leipziger Land and the Muldental district were merged to form the new district of Leipzig.

politics

District Administrator

On June 8th, 2008 the district council election took place in the district of Leipzig. Since none of the four candidates was able to achieve the required majority, a run-off election was held on June 22, 2008, in which Dr. Gerhard Gey (CDU) prevailed with 57.0% of the votes against competitor Petra Köpping (SPD, 43%). He is thus the first district administrator of the newly formed district. - Henry Graichen was elected as Gey's successor as district administrator on June 7, 2015 in the first ballot .

District council

Election of the Leipzig district council in 2019
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Distribution of seats in the
Leipzig district assembly 2019
       
A total of 86 seats

The last district council election for the district of Leipzig took place on May 26, 2019. The 86 seats in the district council are distributed among the individual parties as follows:

Parties and constituencies %
2019
Seats
2019
%
2014
Seats
2014
%
2009
Seats
2009
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 23.3 20th 35.1 34 33.2 32
AfD Alternative for Germany 21.4 19th 2.7 2 - -
UWV Independent electoral association 16.4 14th 15.0 14th 13.2 12
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 13.5 12 16.2 15th 17.3 16
THE LEFT. THE LEFT. 13.3 11 19.2 18th 18.4 18th
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 6.7 6th 3.1 2 3.1 3
FDP Free Democratic Party 5.5 4th 4.8 4th 7.0 6th
NPD National Democratic Party of Germany - - 4.0 3 4.7 4th
BfB Citizens for Borna - - - - 2.1 1
total 100.0 86 100.0 92 100.0 92
voter turnout 61.3% 48.2% 49.1%

The following parliamentary groups were formed in the district council elected in 2019: CDU / FDP (24 members), AfD (19 members), UWV (14 members), SPD (12 members), DIE LINKE. (11 members), GREEN (6 members).

coat of arms

Blazon : “Under a silver shield head, inside three blue wavy bars, split by blue and green; in front a golden castle: a crenellated tower above a crenellated wall with gate. behind a silver goblet accompanied by three golden four-petalled flowers. "

A competition was held to design the coat of arms of the newly formed district. In November 2008, the winner was a design that featured a lion on a blue background, framed by five stars . In discussions it was pointed out that this draft only represented a small part of the new circle and that there was also a risk of confusion with existing coats of arms. On June 3, 2009, the district council passed a different draft with a large majority, which was approved by the Leipzig regional office on October 30, 2009.

The coat of arms of the district of Leipzig is in three parts. It combines three heraldic motifs that stand for the three regions that have shaped the new district of Leipzig culturally and economically.

  • In the head of the shield, three blue wavy lines symbolize the Leipziger Neuseenland , the landscape south of Leipzig that is newly emerging as part of the recultivation and renaturation of the former opencast mine and is part of the Saxon Lakeland.
  • The castle in the (heraldic) right half of the shield refers to Gnandstein Castle in the district of the same name belonging to the town of Kohren-Sahlis. The castle is considered to be Saxony's best-preserved Romanesque fortification and is the flagship of the Kohrener Land tourism region .
  • The heraldic left half of the shield represents the eastern part of the circle, in which the confluence of the Zwickauer and Freiberger Mulde rivers is represented by a silver cap on a green background. It is the image of the coat of arms of the former Muldental circle, which has been adopted in a slightly varied form, accompanied by golden flowers, which in turn allude to its predecessor circles.

Economy and Infrastructure

In the Future Atlas 2016 , the Leipzig district was ranked 328th out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the regions with “future risks”.

In December 2012, the city of Leipzig, the districts of Leipzig and Northern Saxony and the Leipzig Chamber of Commerce and Industry decided to found the joint WRL Wirtschaftsförderung Region Leipzig GmbH.

Sana Clinic Borna

Health economy

Neurological rehabilitation center in Bennewitz

There are four standard care hospitals in the district, namely the two private Leipziger Land clinics, consisting of the Borna Clinic (with a certified stroke unit for stroke patients, breast and bowel center ) and the Zwenkau Clinic (structurally connected to the Helios Geriatric Center) and the two Muldental clinics in Grimma and Wurzen in the sponsorship of the district. In addition, the specialist hospital for neurology and psychiatry in Zschadraß work with the Diakonie as the sponsor and the neurological rehabilitation center in Bennewitz with 40 acute beds in the hands of private Michels clinics . The Michels Clinics are also the sponsors of the Sachsenklinik in the spa town of Bad Lausick , a rehabilitation clinic for orthopedics, neurology and psychosomatic medicine. The spa town houses another private rehabilitation clinic, the Median Clinic , for cardiovascular diseases and orthopedics. In Naunhof to the north is the Sachsen-Klinik (with a hyphen!) Naunhof, a rehabilitation clinic for diseases of the musculoskeletal system. The Brandis Specialist Clinic is a rehabilitation clinic for orthopedics, rheumatology, psychosomatics and neurology. In 2010, the Free State selected three model regions for geriatric care in Saxony, including the Gerinet Leipzig-Süd care network (Helios-Kliniken).

With the outfitter for ENT doctors dantschke MEDIZINTECHNIK, founded in 1963, based in Markkleeberg and ESA Elektroschaltanlagen Grimma GmbH, which equips hospitals and medical facilities with switchgear and assemblies for a complete power supply, two medical technology companies are located in the district.

traffic

A38 bridge over the Pleiße near Gaschwitz

The federal highways 9 , 14 , 38 and 72 as well as the federal highways 2 , 6 , 7 , 93 , 95 , 107 , 175 , 176 and the 186 are important traffic routes in the district . The Parthenaue motorway triangle should be mentioned as an important traffic junction . The extension of the A 72 from Chemnitz to Leipzig is under construction.

The railway lines Leipzig – Riesa – Dresden , Leipzig – Döbeln – Coswig , Neukieritzsch – Geithain – Chemnitz , Leipzig – Geithain , Leipzig – Altenburg – Zwickau / Hof , Leipzig – Zeitz – Gera and Leipzig – Großkorbetha (–Weißenfels) run through the district . Since the opening of the Leipzig City Tunnel , the lines of the S-Bahn Central Germany have connected the district with Leipzig city center without changing trains. There are also direct connections to the Leipzig Fair , the airport Leipzig / Halle and Halle Central . The nearest long-distance train stations are Leipzig Hauptbahnhof and Riesa .

The White Elster and the Mulde , which run through the district, are not navigable.

cities and communes

(Population figures as of December 31, 2019)

Large district towns

  1. Borna , district town (19,118)
  2. Grimma (28,173)
  3. Markkleeberg (24,748)
  4. Wurzen (16,209)
Sachsen-Anhalt Thüringen Landkreis Mittelsachsen Landkreis Nordsachsen Leipzig Bennewitz Böhlen (Sachsen) Borna Borsdorf Brandis Colditz Frohburg Grimma Groitzsch Großpösna Kitzscher Lossatal Machern Markkleeberg Markranstädt Neukieritzsch Neukieritzsch Thallwitz Trebsen/Mulde Bad Lausick Otterwisch Geithain Belgershain Naunhof Parthenstein Elstertrebnitz Pegau Pegau Regis-Breitingen Wurzen Zwenkau RöthaDivision of the district of Leipzig
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Other cities

  1. Bad Lausick (7984)
  2. Bohlen (6651)
  3. Brandis (9624)
  4. Colditz (8422)
  5. Frohburg (12,443)
  6. Geithain (6858)
  7. Groitzsch (7586)
  8. Kitzscher (5000)
  9. Markranstädt (15,781)
  10. Naunhof (8774)
  11. Pegau (6325)
  12. Regis-Breitingen (3897)
  13. Roetha (6128)
  14. Trebsen / Mulde (3817)
  15. Zwenkau (9280)

Communities

  1. Belgershain (3354)
  2. Bennewitz (4962)
  3. Borsdorf (8230)
  4. Elstertrebnitz (1291)
  5. Großpösna (5371)
  6. Lossatal (6049)
  7. Doers (6723)
  8. Neukieritzsch (6885)
  9. Otterwisch (1381)
  10. Parthenstein (3517)
  11. Thallwitz (3558)

Administrative communities

Incorporation since existence

  • Dissolution of the Eulatal community - incorporation into Frohburg (January 1, 2009)
  • Dissolution of the community Großbothen - incorporation into Grimma and Colditz (January 1, 2011)
  • Dissolution of the municipality of Thümmlitzwalde - incorporation into Grimma and Colditz (January 1, 2011)
  • Dissolution of the community of Zschadraß - incorporation into Colditz (January 1, 2011)
  • Dissolution of the Mutzschen community - incorporation into Grimma (January 1, 2012)
  • Dissolution of the municipality of Kitzen - incorporation into Pegau (January 1, 2012)
  • Dissolution of the municipalities of Falkenhain and Hohburg - merger to form Lossatal (January 1, 2012)
  • Dissolution of the municipality of Deutzen - incorporation into Neukieritzsch (July 1, 2014)
  • Dissolution of the municipality of Espenhain - incorporation into Rötha (August 1, 2015)
  • Dissolution of the municipality of Narsdorf - incorporation into Geithain (July 1, 2017)
  • Dissolution of the municipality and city of Kohren-Sahlis - incorporation into Frohburg (January 1, 2018)

Statistical data for the district

Population pyramid for the Leipzig district (data source: 2011 census)

Residents: (as of January 1, 2011)

  • After the incorporation of Thümmlitzwalde and parts of Großbothen on January 1, 2011 and of Mutzschen on January 1, 2012, the district town of Grimma is the most populous town in the district, previously this was Markkleeberg.
  • Elstertrebnitz has the lowest population with 1,395 .

surface

  • The largest area in terms of area is the large district town of Grimma with 217 km².
  • With an area of ​​11.66 km², Elstertrebnitz is the smallest municipality in the district in terms of area.
  • The city of Grimma has the most districts with a total of 65.

Population density

  • With 774 inhabitants per km² Markkleeberg has the highest population density.

Altitude

  • The highest municipality is Narsdorf at 252  m above sea level. NN .
  • At 110  m above sea level NN . the municipality Thallwitz is the lowest.

License Plate

On August 1, 2008, the district was assigned the distinctive L, which had been valid since January 1, 1991 for the then district and the independent city of Leipzig .

Due to the multiple use of the distinguishing sign L, only identification numbers from U 1 to Z 9999 and from UA 1 to ZZ 9999 are possible.

Since November 9, 2012, the license plate liberalization has also made the distinguishing marks BNA (Borna), GHA (Geithain), GRM (Grimma), MTL (Muldental) and WUR (Wurzen) available.

literature

  • Matthias Donath: Leipziger Land. Cultural Landscapes of Saxony Vol. 2 , Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2010
  • District Office (ed.): District of Leipzig. A region with a future. 40 pages, A4 format, Borna 2009

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Leipzig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Administrative reform in Saxony Powerful Saxony - order for the future. ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smi.sachsen.de
  3. Regional plan West Saxony 2008. Part 1 - Definition with justification. Grimma 2008. www.rpv-westsachsen.de
  4. as announced in the Official Journal of the European Union L 12/473 of January 15, 2008
  5. Saxony State Statistical Office: Results of the new district elections on June 22, 2008
  6. - ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lvz.de
  7. Result of the district council election 2019. Accessed on May 31, 2019 .
  8. Report on mdr.de on the new coat of arms. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 25, 2010 ; Retrieved June 18, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  9. ^ Decree on the coat of arms of the Leipzig district
  10. Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.prognos.com
  11. Jörg Hübner: Shareholders' meeting founds WRL Region Economic Development. Press release No. 2012/49. Leipzig Chamber of Commerce and Industry, December 3, 2012, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; accessed on January 11, 2016 .
  12. ^ Website of the Leipziger Land clinics
  13. Stroke Unit. (No longer available online.) Sana Kliniken Leipziger Land GmbH, archived from the original on January 11, 2016 ; accessed on January 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kliniken-leipziger-land.de
  14. Certified Breast Center North Saxony. Borna location. Sana Kliniken Leipziger Land GmbH, accessed on January 11, 2016 .
  15. Colon Cancer Center. Sana Kliniken Leipziger Land GmbH, accessed on January 11, 2016 .
  16. ^ Website of the Muldental Clinics
  17. ^ Website of the Diakoniewerk Zschadraß
  18. ^ Website of the NRZ
  19. ^ Website of the Sachsen-Klinik Naunhof
  20. ^ Website Brandis Specialist Clinic
  21. ^ Press release of the Free State of December 26, 2010
  22. site dantschke MEDICAL
  23. Website ESA Elektroschaltanlagen Grimma GmbH
  24. Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  25. ^ Database census 2011, Leipzig, district, age + gender