Lawitz

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 6 '  N , 14 ° 38'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Oder-Spree
Office :	New cell
Height :	53 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.07 km 2
Residents:	564 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	93 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	15898
Area code :	033652
License plate :	LOS, BSK, EH, FW
Community key :	12 0 67 292
Office administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 22 15898 Neuzelle
Mayoress :	Gudrun Schmädicke
Location of the municipality of Lawitz in the Oder-Spree district

Lawitz ( Lawojce in Lower Sorbian ) is an official municipality in southeast Brandenburg in the Oder-Spree district . The municipality belongs to the Neuzelle office with its seat in the municipality of Neuzelle .

geography

The place is south of Eisenhüttenstadt near the Oder , which forms the state border with Poland here.

Community structure

Lawitz has no districts, inhabited districts or places to live .

history

The alley village was first mentioned in 1316 with the Sorbian name (Ławojce).

Lawitz belonged to the Guben district in the province of Brandenburg since 1817 and to the Eisenhüttenstadt-Land district in the GDR district of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1952 . The community has been in the Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg since 1993.

Population development

year Residents 1875 424 1890 405 1910 365 1925 329 1933 360 1939 366 1946 475 1950 451 1964 386 1971 357

year Residents 1981 330 1985 351 1989 370 1990 375 1991 375 1992 386 1993 383 1994 416 1995 431 1996 467

year Residents 1997 528 1998 621 1999 696 2000 703 2001 696 2002 690 2003 685 2004 683 2005 679 2006 670

year Residents 2007 662 2008 641 2009 643 2010 628 2011 604 2012 606 2013 613 2014 605 2015 602 2016 596

year Residents 2017 587 2018 565 2019 564

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

The community council of Lawitz consists of eight community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Voter group	Seats
Citizen for Lawitz	5
Allianz Lawitzer Citizens	3

Mayoress

• since 1998: Gudrun Schmädicke (citizen for Lawitz)

Schmädicke was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 59.8% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

Attractions

In the list of soil monuments in Lawitz , soil monuments are listed in the Brandenburg Monument List for Lawitz.

traffic

The federal highway 112 , which connects Eisenhüttenstadt with Guben , runs through the municipality of Lawitz . The next motorway junction is Frankfurt (Oder) -Mitte on the federal motorway 12 (Frankfurt (Oder) - Berlin ) about 25 km away.

literature

• Klaus Trautmann: Manne. From the adventurous life of a Lawitzer herding boy, Verlag Die Furt 2004, ISBN 978-3-933416-50-6 .
• Klaus Trautmann: The steamer on the Dorche, Neißemünde-Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-941024-03-8 .
• Wolfgang Kloss: Bubi - Ein Schicksal 1944–1952, Verlag Shaker Media, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86858-160-7 .

Web links

Commons : Lawitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ "Lawojce" entry in the Lower Sorbian place names database on dolnoserbski.de
3. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Lawitz parish
4. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Oder-Spree . Pp. 18-21
5. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
6. ^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
7. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
8. ↑ Results of the municipal elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the Oder-Spree district ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
10. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019