Lichtenau (Saxony)

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Lichtenau
Lichtenau (Saxony)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Lichtenau highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '  N , 13 ° 0'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Central Saxony
Height : 349 m above sea level NHN
Area : 49.15 km 2
Residents: 7076 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 144 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 09244
Primaries : 037206, 037208
License plate : FG, BED, DL, FLÖ, HC, MW, RL
Community key : 14 5 22 330
Community structure: 8 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Auerswalder
Hauptstrasse 2
09244 Lichtenau
Website : www.gemeinde-lichtenau.de
Mayor : Andreas Graf ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Lichtenau in the district of central Saxony
Altmittweida Augustusburg Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf Brand-Erbisdorf Burgstädt Claußnitz Döbeln Dorfchemnitz Eppendorf Erlau (Sachsen) Flöha Frankenberg/Sa. Frauenstein (Erzgebirge) Freiberg Geringswalde Großhartmannsdorf Großschirma Großweitzschen Hainichen Halsbrücke Hartha Hartmannsdorf (bei Chemnitz) Königsfeld (Sachsen) Königshain-Wiederau Kriebstein Leisnig Leubsdorf (Sachsen) Lichtenau (Sachsen) Lichtenberg/Erzgeb. Lunzenau Mittweida Mühlau (Sachsen) Mulda/Sa. Neuhausen/Erzgeb. Niederwiesa Oberschöna Oederan Ostrau (Sachsen) Penig Rechenberg-Bienenmühle Reinsberg (Sachsen) Rochlitz Rossau (Sachsen) Roßwein Sayda Seelitz Striegistal Taura Waldheim Wechselburg Weißenborn/Erzgeb. Zettlitz Zschaitz-Ottewig Sachsenmap
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Lichtenau is a municipality in the district of Central Saxony ( Saxony ).

geography

In the south, Lichtenau borders on the city of Chemnitz . In the west the Chemnitz river and in the east the Zschopau represent the municipality boundary.

Local division

The municipality comprises a total of eight districts:

history

Town hall of the municipality of Lichtenau in Auerswalde

The villages in the municipality have German place names. This and the common division of the corridors into hoofs suggests that the villages were founded in the 12th century during the medieval eastern settlement .

History of the place name

The originally independent municipalities Nieder- and Oberlichtenau give it its name. Both villages were first mentioned in the document book of Friedrich des Strengen in 1350 .

Origin and incorporations

On January 1, 1994, the municipalities of Niederlichtenau and Oberlichtenau were merged to form the first municipality of Lichtenau. Five years later, on January 1st, 1999, it merged with the formerly independent towns of Auerswalde and Ottendorf to form a new municipality, which initially bore the name Auerswalde. On September 11, 2000, it was renamed Lichtenau.

Former parish or manor district date annotation
Auerswalde January 1, 1999
September 11, 2000		 Merger with Lichtenau and Ottendorf zu Auerswalde,
renamed Lichtenau
Biensdorf before 1875 Incorporation to Krumbach
Garnsdorf January 1, 1994 Incorporation to Auerswalde
Krumbach October 1, 1994 Incorporation to Ottendorf
Lichtenau January 1, 1999 Merger with Auerswalde and Ottendorf zu Auerswalde
Merzdorf January 1, 1967 Incorporation to Niederlichtenau
Niederlichtenau January 1, 1994 Merger with Oberlichtenau to Lichtenau
Oberlichtenau January 1, 1994 Merger with Niederlichtenau to Lichtenau
Ottendorf January 1, 1999 Merger with Auerswalde and Lichtenau to Auerswalde
Frankenberg state forest district, manor district December 11, 1948 Partial integration to Krumbach
Frankenberg state forest district, manor district June 12, 1948 Partial integration to Merzdorf in the course of the land reform

politics

Local elections 2019
Turnout: 71.5%
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
32.9%
29.8%
20.2%
11.9%
5.2%
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
 25th
 20th
 15th
 10
   5
   0
  -5
-10
-15
-6.0  % p
-14.6  % p
+ 20.2  % p
-4.8  % p
+ 5.2  % p

Mayor of the municipality has been Andreas Graf since November 3, 2014.

The council elected in 2019 is composed as follows:

Political party Seats
Free voters 6th
CDU 5
AfD 3
THE LEFT 2
Green 1

There is a town partnership with the Bavarian town of Neustadt am Kulm .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Lichtenau is located just off the motorway Chemnitz- Dresden ( A 4 ) and has a connection point ( "Chemnitz-Ost") and the motorway service area "Auerswalder view". Federal highway 169 runs south of the village .

The community is connected to the railway network via the Riesa – Chemnitz railway and has stations in the districts of Oberlichtenau and Ottendorf, from which the ChemnitzBahn runs to Mittweida and downtown Chemnitz. The regional trains of the Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn also stop at the edge of the day . A third station ( Auerswalde-Köthensdorf ) is located on the disused Chemnitz Valley Railway from Chemnitz to Wechselburg .

  • Oberlichtenau station (2016)

  • Hp. Ottendorf b Mittweida (2016)

Local businesses

religion

In Niederlichtenau, Ottendorf and Auerswalde there is an Evangelical Lutheran church, each of which belongs to a different church district (Marienberg, Glauchau-Rochlitz or Chemnitz) of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony . There is also a regional church community in Auerswalde and Merzdorf .

education

Lichtenau High School in Oberlichtenau

The municipality of Lichtenau has three primary schools in Niederlichtenau, Ottendorf and Auerswalde, as well as a high school in Oberlichtenau.

Culture and sights

Sonnenlandpark Lichtenau, ferris wheel
  • Sonnenland - Lichtenau Adventure Park, u. a. with ferris wheel, indoor playground, Germany's highest slide tower, wave flyer, climbing paradise and petting zoo

Personalities

  • David Hoyer (1667–1720), painter, born in Auerswalde
  • Carl Gottlieb Haubold (1783–1856), entrepreneur, is considered the "father of Chemnitz mechanical engineering", born in Auerswalde
  • Kurt Barthel (1914–1967), writer, poet, playwright and dramaturge, born in Garnsdorf
  • Angelika Klein (* 1951), politician (Die Linke), born in Garnsdorf

Web links

Commons : Lichtenau  - 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. ↑ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther (ed.): Historisches Ortnamesbuch von Sachsen , Berlin 2001, Volume I, p. 591, ISBN 3-05-003728-8 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony: Area changes
  4. ↑ Community and place directory for the Kingdom of Saxony, 1904, publisher: Statistical Bureau of the Royal Ministry of the Interior
  5. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  6. ^ A b Ministry of the Interior of the State of Saxony (ed.): Lists of the municipalities incorporated since May 1945 and evidence of the breakdown of the independent manor districts and state forest districts. 1952.
  7. ↑ a b Municipal council election 2019: Election results for the municipal council elections Saxony. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .