The Baroness von Löwendal created the basis for the further development of the city in 1725 with the establishment of a hammer mill, the Lauchhammerwerk. She thus became one of the first women entrepreneurs in Niederlausitz.
Entrepreneur whose commitment is closely linked to the development of iron processing and art casting in Lauchhammer. On behalf of Detlev Carl von Einsiedel, Thaddäus Ignatius Wiskotschill and Joseph Mattersberger succeeded in casting an ancient figure of a bacchante in iron in 1784 .
Catholic priest, died in the Dachau concentration camp , parish vicar in Bockwitz from 1938, Wilhelm-Oberhaus-Strasse in Lauchhammer-Mitte was named after him on May 8, 1987.
Niemann is considered one of the most successful Lauchhammeran gymnasts of the early years. He started playing sports at the age of 4 and was already in charge of a children's gymnastics team at the age of 12. He later lived and worked in Frielendorf , Hesse , where he made great contributions to apparatus gymnastics there. The local gaume championships in 1933 were held in his honor in Frielendorf. In 1941 he came to Lauchhammer or Bockwitz for work-related reasons, where he was also involved in gymnastics and did development work. From 1950 to 1953 he was section chairman of the BSG activist Lauchhammer . From 1958 he took over as a trainer for children’s gymnastics in Lauchhammer-Ost.
Pilot, lived in Lauchhammer until the mid-1950s. Kallbach received an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the landing of an IL-62 on an 860 m long grass runway in Stölln in 1989.
