Lautzenbrücken

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′  N , 7 ° 58 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Height :	501 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.28 km 2
Residents:	432 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	101 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56472
Area code :	02661
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 255
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Kirburger Strasse 4 56470 Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Website :	www.lautzenbruecken.de
Local Mayor :	Karsten Lucke
Location of the local community Lautzenbrücken in the Westerwaldkreis

Lautzenbrücken (dialect: Lautzebrick ) is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) community .

Geographical location

The community is located in the Westerwald between Limburg an der Lahn and Siegen .

The districts of the community are Lautzenbrücken, Hohensayn and Eisenkaute.

history

In 1262 the community was first mentioned as the Luytzebrucke .

In 1770 the Eisenkaute or Gutehoffnungshütte was first mentioned. This was closed in 1930.

Population development

The development of the population of Lautzenbrücken, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 141 1835 165 1871 183 1905 172 1939 238 1950 254

year Residents 1961 269 1970 311 1987 329 1997 433 2005 397 2019 432

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Lautzenbrücken consists of eight council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Karsten Lucke became the local mayor of Lautzenbrücken in 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with 94.34% of the votes.

coat of arms

Blazon

“In silver, a blue oblique wave bar; below the middle covered by a continuous black bridge with a flat arched opening; top left a green group of trees with black trunk and two spruces and one deciduous tree, 2: 1 interlocked; below right a group of three growing black basalt columns with a hexagonal cross-section, staggered, descending to the right. "

description

The location of the place at the small nest is symbolized by the blue wave bar. The bridge refers to the basic word in the place name. The other symbols of the coat of arms symbolize the rich basalt deposits and the extensive forests in Lautzenbrücken. The coat of arms was created by the heraldist Albert Meinhardt on the basis of a draft of the local council and approved on October 19, 1981 by the district president Heinz Korbach .

Culture and sights

→ see list of cultural monuments in Lautzenbrücken

traffic

• The B 414 runs south of the village and leads from Driedorf -Hohenroth to Hachenburg .
• The next motorway junctions are in Siegen or Wilnsdorf on the A 45 Dortmund - Hanau , about 20 kilometers away.
• The closest ICE stop is Montabaur train station on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line .

Web links

Commons : Lautzenbrücken  - Collection of images

• Internet presence of the local community Lautzenbrücken
• Lautzenbrücken on the website of the Bad Marienberg Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Hermann Josef Hucke: Place names in the Westerwaldkreis in their dialect pronunciation as well as Ortneckereien ( Memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , 2010, page 3 (PDF; 132 kB)
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 72 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ^ Otto Kleinschmidt: Industries, service companies and trade unions in the Oberwesterwald . Self-published, 2004.
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ Karsten Lucke: Open letter to the local community. Local community Lautzenbrücken, June 2, 2019, accessed on June 4, 2020 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Marienberg, Verbandsgemeinde, eleventh line of results. Retrieved June 4, 2020 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b} "Ortschronik Lautzenbrücken, page 15/16