Laugna

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Dillingen on the Danube
Management Community :	Wertingen
Height :	442 m above sea level NHN
Area :	27.61 km 2
Residents:	1601 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	58 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86502
Area code :	08272
License plate :	DLG, WHO
Community key :	09 7 73 143
Community structure:	7 parts of the community
Association administration address:	Schulstr. 12 ; 86637 Wertingen, Germany
Website :	laugna.de
Mayor :	Johann Gebele (FWO)
Location of the municipality of Laugna in the district of Dillingen on the Danube

Laugna is a municipality in the Swabian district of Dillingen on the Danube and a member of the Wertingen administrative community .

geography

The community is located between Dillingen (15 km) and Augsburg (22 km), about 3.5 km southeast of Wertingen and is part of the Augsburg planning region . The Holzwinkel , part of the Augsburg - Western Forests nature park, begins south of the municipality . The Laugna runs in the east of the municipality and takes in the Asbacher Bach .

The municipality has seven officially named municipality parts (the type of settlement and the number of inhabitants as of May 2019 are given in brackets ):

Asbach ( Dorf , 188 E.)
Bocksberg ( Kirchdorf , 304 E.)
Hinterbuch (Dorf, 56 E.)
Kaag ( hamlet , 15 E.)
Laugna ( parish village , 648 E.)
Modelshausen (Pfarrdorf, 46 E.)
Easter book (Pfarrdorf, 249 E.)

history

The earliest known settlement is from a Celtic conquest around 100 BC. Started out. The pre-German name "Longenaha" or colloquially "Longna" suggests this. Around 15 BC The Romans occupied the area. Around 410 AD they were expelled by the Alemannic tribe of the Suebi ; Laugna became a Germanic Urmark .

Laugna was owned by the Fugger Family Foundation , which had acquired the Bocksberg rule in 1613 . With the Rhine Confederation Act 1806, the place came to the Kingdom of Bavaria . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, the municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Incorporations

All parts of the municipality of today's municipality belonged to the Wertingen district, which was dissolved in 1972 . On May 1, 1978, as part of the municipal reform, the municipalities of Bocksberg with its districts Hinterbuch, Kaag and Modelshausen and Osterbuch with its municipality of Asbach were incorporated.
The last mayor of the old municipality of Laugna was Johann Öttle, who was also re-elected as mayor of the new municipality.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 1,330 to 1,577 by 247 inhabitants or by 18.6%.

Today's municipality:

year	1961	1970	1987	1991	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015
Residents	1314	1304	1313	1422	1479	1533	1553	1543	1577
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Place Laugna:

year	1871	1950	1987	2019
Residents	508	766	654	648
source

politics

mayor

The first mayor is Johann Gebele (Free Voters Group Osterbuch), the second mayor is Helmut Bartsch (Non-Party Voters Group Laugna). Johann Gebele was elected mayor for the first time in March 2014 in the first ballot and was confirmed in office on March 15, 2020 with 96.6% of the votes without any competitors.

Former mayor

1978–1980: Johann Öttle from Laugna (previously mayor of the old municipality of Laugna)
1980–1996: Günter Meitinger from Bocksberg
1996–2014: Georg Keis sen. from Asbach
Since 2014: Johann Gebele from Osterbuch

Municipal council

The municipal council has twelve members:

Non-party voter group Laugna (PWL): 5 seats (2008: 5 seats)
Free Voting Group Osterbuch (FWO) 4 seats (2008: 3 seats)
Free voter community Bocksberg (FWB): 3 seats (2008: 4 seats)

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: Above a golden shield base, in it three green bars placed at an angle to the left and cut at an angle, split by blue and gold; in front a golden lily cross, behind a striding black goat on a single green four-mountain.

Architectural monuments

Fugger Castle in Laugna
Catholic parish church St. Elisabeth in Laugna
Catholic branch church of the Holy Trinity and St. Leonhard in Bocksberg
Catholic parish church St. Peter in Modelshausen
Catholic parish church St. Michael in Osterbuch
Catholic Ottilien Chapel in Asbach

Laugna Fugger Castle
St. Elisabeth in Laugna
Holy Trinity and St. Leonhard in Bocksberg
Church of St. Michael in Osterbuch

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were 20 employees in the field of agriculture and forestry, 70 in the manufacturing industry and four in the field of trade and transport at the place of work. In other economic areas, 26 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were 557 employees at the place of residence subject to social insurance contributions. There were four in manufacturing and three in construction. In addition, in 1999 there were 49 farms with an agricultural area of 1377 ha, 988 ha of which were arable land.

The municipal tax revenue amounted to the equivalent of € 540,000 in 1999, of which € 40,000 was trade tax revenue (net).

traffic

The state road 2036 crosses the municipality and the village of Laugna from north to south . From there, the DLG 33 district road runs east.

education

In 1999 the following institutions existed:

Kindergarten: 50 kindergarten places with 61 children

All schools for the community are located in Wertingen.

Others

The sports club for the entire community is FC Osterbuch, founded in 1967.

The community owns a schnapps distillery that was founded in 1923 and produces the so-called Laugna water. The schnapps is made mainly from apples, pears and plums, the fruit comes exclusively from the area.