Lauter-Bernsbach

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '  N , 12 ° 45'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Erzgebirgskreis
Height :	530 m above sea level NHN
Area :	30.28 km 2
Residents:	8628 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	285 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	08315
Primaries :	03771, 03774
License plate :	ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP
Community key :	14 5 21 355
City structure:	3 districts
City administration address :	Rathausstrasse 11 08315 Lauter-Bernsbach
Website :	www.lauter-bernsbach.de
Mayor :	Thomas Kunzmann ( Free Voters )
Location of the city of Lauter-Bernsbach in the Erzgebirge district

Lauter-Bernsbach is a town in the Saxon Ore Mountains , which was founded on January 1, 2013 by the merger of the town of Lauter / Sa. was formed with the municipality of Bernsbach .

geography

Geographical location

View from Bernsbach to Morgenleithe (left) and Auersberg (right)

The town of Lauter-Bernsbach is located in the Western Ore Mountains in the Schwarzwassertal at an altitude of 480-580 meters. The two districts of Lauter and Bernsbach, originally laid out as Waldhufendörfer , are located in two side valleys that lead up to the highest elevations, Morgenleithe and Spiegelwald . Through the city leading national highway 101 as Silver Street and the south-western district of the state road S 228. Lauter-Bernsbach is a station on the regional train connection Zwickau - Johanngeorgenstadt the Erzgebirgsbahn - resulting from the sections Zwickau-Schwarzenberg and Schwarzenberg Johanngeorgenstadt composed - connected.

City structure

The town of Lauter-Bernsbach consists of the districts Lauter, Bernsbach and Oberpfannenstiel . 9018 inhabitants live in the city on an area of ​​around 30 km².

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are the large district towns of Aue-Bad Schlema and Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. , the cities of Lößnitz and Grünhain-Beierfeld and the municipality of Bockau .

history

In a referendum , in which the question was asked whether a merger with Grünhain-Beierfeld or Lauter should be sought, the citizens of the Bernsbach community decided on June 26, 2011 with more than two-thirds approval for Lauter. The merger agreement was signed on August 23, 2012 and the merger completed on January 1, 2013. Here, the existing since 1962 city charter Lauter to the newly founded city Lauter-Bernsbach transmitted.

politics

City council

The city council of Lauter-Bernsbach has consisted of three parliamentary groups since the local elections on May 26, 2019 :

• Fraction of the Free Voters City of Lauter-Bernsbach with 8 seats
• Parliamentary group of the CDU Lauter-Bernsbach with 6 seats
• AfD Lauter-Bernsbach faction with 5 seats
• DIE LINKE parliamentary group with 3 seats

City council election 2019 Turnout: 62.7%  % 40 30th 20th 10 0 35.3% 25.6% 22.2% 16.9% FWV CDU AfD left

Political groups 2019 3 3 6th 5 3 3 6th 5  A total of 17 seats Left : 3 FWV: 3 CDU : 6 AfD : 5

mayor

In the first meeting of the city council on January 10, 2013, the previous mayor of Lauter, Thomas Kunzmann (Free Voters) was appointed as the official administrator of the newly founded city. In the election of the mayor on April 14, 2013, Kunzmann prevailed against his three competitors with 81.17% of the vote.

coat of arms

Blazon : "levied in silver with a red ball board at a floating, covered with silver wave bar green floor front linkshin border upright black bear with red knocked-out tongue and red teeth, the front paws, behind a growing green fir with black base."

The coat of arms was designed in 2012 by the municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch and, following a resolution by the city council on January 10, 2013, was included in the approval process. Its symbolism refers to the coat of arms of Lauter / Sa. and Bernsbach (the latter was run without authorization).

The colors of the city are: green and white.

flag

The city flag is described as follows: "Two horizontal / longitudinal stripes of equal width in the colors green and white with the city coat of arms in the middle."

Culture and sights

• see also: List of cultural monuments in Lauter-Bernsbach

traffic

The federal road 101 runs through the Lauter district . It has a stop on the Schwarzenberg-Zwickau railway line . Between 1900 and 1947 the Bernsbach district had a train station on the Zwönitz – Scheibenberg railway line .

Culture and sport

Among other things, the Lauterer Vugelbeerfast has been held once a year between the market square and the Lautergold company premises since 1995 . In addition to the main subject, the rowanberry , which everything revolves around, other attractions such as a balloon flight competition can be expected. Representatives from other neighboring cities and communities also take an active part.

Web links

Commons : Lauter-Bernsbach  - 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. ↑ Saxon Official Gazette No. 50/2012, p. 1482
3. ↑ Freie Presse , local edition Schwarzenberg of June 27, 2011: Bernsbachers want Lauter as a partner - Clear vote: More than two thirds of the voters are in favor of merging with the rowan town
4. ^ Parliamentary groups in the city council
5. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
6. ↑ Freie Presse , Aue local edition of January 12, 2013: The election as administrative administrator in Lauter-Bernsbach is a tremendous partie. Result very close - also chosen city arms
7. ↑ Results of the mayoral election 2013  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Decision of the municipal supervisory authority of the Erzgebirgskreis district office of April 8, 2013
9. ↑ Jörg Mantzsch : The coat of arms of the city of Lauter-Bernsbach, documentation on the approval process , deposited with the Lauter-Bernsbach city administration in 2012 (report: Saxon Main State Archive Dresden)
10. ↑ Decision of the municipal supervisory authority of the Erzgebirgskreis district office of April 8, 2013
11. ↑ Press release of the city of Aue from September 26th 2017: Auer Stadtwerke at the Lauterer Vugelbeerfast on Sunday .