Lützen
Lützen | |
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 View from Lützen Castle | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Lützen within Burgenlandkreis district  | |
Burgenlandkreis | |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2017–24) | Uwe Weiß[1] (SPD) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 108.28 km2 (41.81 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 220 m (720 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 8,439 |
| • Density | 78/km2 (200/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 06679, 06686 |
| Dialling codes | 034441, 034444 |
| Vehicle registration | BLK |
| Website | www |
ⓘ is a town in the Burgenlandkreis district of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Geography
Lützen is situated in the Leipzig Bay, approximately 10 km (6.2 mi) southwest of the Leipzig city limits and 14 km (8.7 mi) northeast of Weißenfels. The town has access to the Bundesstraße 87 road from Leipzig to Weißenfels as well as to the Bundesautobahn 9 (at the Bad Dürrenberg junction) and the Bundesautobahn 38.
The municipal area comprises the following Ortschaften or municipal divisions:[3]
- Lützen
- Meuchen, incorporated in 1973
- Röcken, incorporated in 2009
- Großgörschen, Muschwitz, Poserna, Rippach and Starsiedel, incorporated in 2010
- Dehlitz, Sössen and Zorbau, incorporated in 2011
History
Held by the
The town was the scene of two famous battles:
- The Neo-Gothic style monument designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkelin 1837 on the spot on the battlefield where he died. Close to this there is a memorial chapel in his honour.
- The forces near the village of Großgörschen, although with heavy losses. In the night before the battle, he had ostentatiously camped at the Gustavus Adolphus memorial stone.
By 1815 resolution of the
from 1952 to 1990.In 2017 a mass grave with 47 bodies from the Battle of Lützen (1632) were found near the town.[4]
Politics
Seats in the town's assembly (Stadtrat) as of 2019 local elections:
- Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU): 4
- Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD): 3
- The Left: 2
- Alliance '90/The Greens: 2
- National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD): 1
- Free Democratic Party (FDP): 1
- Independents: 7
Notable people
- Johann Gottfried Seume (1763–1810), author
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), philosopher, cultural critic, poet and scholar
References
- Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt, accessed 8 July 2021.
- Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt. June 2023.
- ^ Hauptsatzung der Stadt Lützen, § 17, January 2011.
- ^ Kristina Killgrove Mass Grave From Thirty Years' War Reveals Brutal Cavalry Attack Archived 2020-07-10 at the Wayback Machine May 25, 2017 Forbes
External links
Media related to Lützen at Wikimedia Commons
- Municipal website (in German)
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