Laußnitz

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Laußnitz (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '  N , 13 ° 53'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Bautzen
Management Community :	Koenigsbrück
Height :	196 m above sea level NHN
Area :	63.81 km 2
Residents:	1852 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	29 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	01936
Area code :	035795
License plate :	BZ, BIW, HY, KM
Community key :	14 6 25 300
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Schulstr. 10 01936 Laußnitz
Website :	www.laussnitz.de
Mayor :	Joachim Driesnack (FWL)
Location of the municipality of Laußnitz in the Bautzen district

Laußnitz

Aerial view

Aerial view of Laußnitz from Alfred Maul's photo rocket from 1906

Laußnitz ( Upper Sorbian Łužnica ) is a municipality in the district of Bautzen , Saxony ( Germany ). She is a member of the Koenigsbrück administrative community.

The place name comes - like " Lausitz " - from the Sorbian word łuh or ług , which describes a swampy, water-rich area.

Geography and traffic

The community is located in the predominantly wooded Laußnitzer Heide west of Upper Lusatia, whose historical border to Meissen areas is marked here by the Pulsnitz running east of the town near Königsbrück . It is located about 2.5 km southwest of Königsbrück and about 25 km northeast of the state capital Dresden . The A4 runs south and the A 13 west of the municipality. The A 4 can be reached via the Ottendorf-Okrilla junction (approx. 10 km) and the A 13 via the Thiendorf junction (approx. 14 km). In Laußnitz the B 98 ends at the B 97 .

The station on the Dresden-Klotzsche-Straßgräbchen-Bernsdorf railway is served hourly by regional trains on the Dresden-Neustadt - Königsbrück route.

Local division

The community consists of the districts:

• Laußnitz, 1355 inhabitants
• Höckendorf, 569 inhabitants (incorporated on January 1, 1998)
• Glauschnitz, 34 inhabitants

politics

Parts of this article seem out of date as of 2019 .
Please help to research and insert the missing information .

City council election 2014

Turnout: 63.7% (2009: 59.2%)

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70

60

50

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69.2%

30.8%

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FWL

CDU

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FDP

Gains and losses

compared to 2009

 % p

 25th

 20th

 15th

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+ 20.9  % p

+ 3.3  % p.p.

-19.2  % p

-5  % p

FWL

CDU

JG

FDP

Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 12 seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• Voters' association “Free Voters” Laußnitz (FWL): 8 seats
• CDU : 4 seats

Attractions

• Forstsamenderre Laußnitz (Forest Museum)
• Laußnitz Heath
• Wolf memorial
• Original remnants of a Saxon all-mile column from 1722 from Poststrasse in the course of the Via Regia on the B 98 towards Sacka (previously also listed under Sacka)
• Village church in the Höckendorf district with a baroque organ

The cultural monuments are recorded in the list of cultural monuments in Laußnitz .

education

The community of Laußnitz has a primary school and an integrative day care center.

Personalities

• Oscar Theodor Auerswald (1827–1903), Protestant pastor and author
• Willy Jahn (1898–1973), painter and graphic artist
• Herbert Wagner (1930–2015), Moldavite researcher
• Brigitte Zschoche (1941–2019), politician, MdL

literature

• Cornelius Gurlitt : Laußnitz. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 35. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Kamenz (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1912, p. 133.

• Oskar Jost: Höckendorfer Chronik . Königsbrück 1927 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Laußnitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Laußnitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Höckendorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Glauschnitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1998
3. ↑ As of August 31, 2012; Information from the residents' registration office in Königsbrück
4. ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections