Landsberg, Saxony-Anhalt

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Landsberg
Town
Old town, view from Chapel Hill
Coat of arms
Location of Landsberg within Saalekreis district
Saalekreis
Subdivisions	11
Government
• Mayor (2022–29)	Tobias Halfpap[1]
Area
• Total	124.74 km2 (48.16 sq mi)
Elevation	97 m (318 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	15,015
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	06186–06188
Dialling codes	034602
Vehicle registration	SK
Website	www.stadt-landsberg.de

Landsberg is a town in the Saalekreis in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Geography

The town is located between the cities of Halle, about 19 km (12 mi) in the southwest, Leipzig, about 25 km (16 mi) in the southeast, and Bitterfeld-Wolfen, about 15 km (9.3 mi) in the north. Located in the Leipzig Bay of the North German Plain, Landsberg lies within the larger Leipzig-Halle agglomeration in the Central German Metropolitan Region.

The municipal area immediately borders the independent city of Halle in the southwest and the Nordsachsen district of Saxony in the southeast. After several incorporations in recent years, it currently comprises 11 localities (Ortschaften):^[3]

Known far beyond Landsberg is the Felsenbad ("Cliff Bath"), a swimming pool complex with diving platforms, a 50-metre (160 ft) stretch of competition swimming lanes, and a vast shallow pool where non-swimmers may bathe. Furthermore, the town is the namesake of the well known – in Germany – Landsberger Gemenge (roughly "Landsberg Batch"), a winter

Landsberg Castle from the 12th century onwards was the seat of the

When the Wettin margrave Henry III of Meissen about 1258 re-established the Margraviate of Landsberg for his second son Theodoric, Landsberg Castle had already lost its status as the margravial residence to Weißenfels. Upon the death of Theoderic's son Frederick Tuta in 1291, Landsberg fell to the Ascanian margrave Otto IV of Brandenburg. During decades of feuds between the Wettin and Ascanian dynasties the castle decayed and today only traces of wall remain.

The settlement at the foot of the castle arose around the St Nicholas parish church dating from the 13th century. In 1579, the citizens of Landsberg were granted town privileges by the Saxon electors, though on condition not to erect city fortifications. Severely damaged during the Thirty Years' War, the Landsberg double chapel about 1658/62 was restored at the behest of the Wettin duke Christian I of Saxe-Merseburg.

In 2019, two people were killed and two others were injured in a terrorist attack in the city of Halle. Two of the injuries occurred in the city of Landsberg.^[4]

Coat of arms

The town's coat of arms, called "Landsberg Pales" (Landsberger Pfähle) according to heraldic blazon, is first known to have appeared in the late 12th century, and the margraves of the Wettin dynasty, local rulers since the 10th century, used it as their arms.^[5] The blue Landsberg Pales appear on the coat of arms of numerous towns and cities in Central Germany, such as Chemnitz, Dresden (in black), and Leipzig.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Landsberg (Saalekreis).

• Official website (in German)