Lauenhain (Crimmitschau)

Lauenhain City of Crimmitschau Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 15 ″ N , 12 ° 25 ′ 25 ″ E
Height :	275 m
Area :	6.1 km²
Residents :	633 (Jun 30, 2014)
Population density :	104 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1999
Postal code :	08451
Area code :	03762
Location of Lauenhain in Saxony

Lauenhain is a village in the large district town of Crimmitschau in the Saxon district of Zwickau . It was created on January 1, 1999 through the incorporation of the independent municipality of Lauenhain with its districts of Gersdorf and Harthau .

geography

Geographical location and traffic

Lauenhain is located in the southeastern urban area of Crimmitschau am Paradiesbach, a tributary of the Pleiße . In the west is the federal highway 93 , via which the Autobahn 4 in the north can be reached. Lauenhain is located on the Luther Trail in Saxony .

Lauenhain has grown together with its former districts of Harthau and Gersdorf in terms of settlement. The western part of the village is formed by Lauenhain in the north and Gersdorf in the south, which are separated from Harthau in the east by the Paradiesbach. To the south of the fire station of the volunteer fire brigade Lauenhain, the district of Gersdorf seamlessly connects to Lauenhain.

Neighboring places

Crimmitschau	Gablenz
elections		Harthau
Neukirchen / Pleiße	Lauterbach	Gersdorf

history

Half-timbered houses in Lauenhain

Lauenhain was mentioned in 1278 as "Lawenhain". The place name is probably synonymous with “arbor grove”, which means “place that was surrounded by hardwood”. Lauenhain belonged as the neighboring Gersdorf until the time of the Reformation to the possessions of the monastery Grünhain in the beautiful burg care Crimmitschau, the 1413 wettinisch was in the 16th century in the Saxon Office Zwickau opened. Lauenhain was given to the monastery around 1280 by the owners Berthold von Ende and Konrad von Auerbach with the approval of their liege lords, the bailiffs of Weida and Gera . The first Protestant service was held in 1529 in the local church, which was built in 1316. After the dissolution of the Grünhain monastery in 1533, part of the village belonged to the Ruppertsgrün manor around 1551 and from 1606 to the Gablenz manor. The other part of the village was subordinate to the Zwickau office as an administrative village.

Until 1856 Lauenhain belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Zwickau. In 1856 it was affiliated to the Crimmitschau court office and in 1875 to the Zwickau administration . While Gersdorf already belonged to Lauenhain at that time, Harthau was incorporated into Lauenhain on April 1, 1935.

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the municipality of Lauenhain became part of Werdau district in the Chemnitz district (renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Werdau from 1990 and in 1994 in the district of Zwickauer Land and in 2008 rose in the district of Zwickau. Since the incorporation of Lauenhain with its two districts to Crimmitschau on January 1, 1999, these three places form the Crimmitschau locality of Lauenhain. In 1998 the generously designed parish hall was opened.

Attractions

Lauenhainer church on Harthauer corridor

The Lauenhainer church was built in Romanesque style before 1316. The last renovation took place in 1992. In a side building of the parish farmstead is a Rüstzeitheim for Christian youth.