Bad Lauchstädt

Bad Lauchstaedt, officially Goethe town Bad Lauchstaedt ( listen? / I ) is a town in the Saale district, in Saxony -Anhalt. It is located about 8 km north of Lake Geiseltal, 11 km west of Merseburg and 21 km southwest of Halle ( Saale).

• 2.1 Amalgamations

• 3.1 City Council
• 3.2 Coat of Arms and Flag
• 3.3 twinning

• 4.1 Structures
• 4.2 Historical Monuments
• 4.3 Regular events

• 5.1 Established businesses
• 5.2 traffic

Geography

Boroughs

Districts are Bad Lauchstaedt, Delitz am Berge, United Gräfendorf, Klobikau, Milzau and Schafstädt. The town bears the name of the local part. The districts bathroom Lauchstaedt and Great Gräfendorf form the town of Bad Lauchstaedt.

History

In a resulting 881-899 Directory of tithing of Hersfeld Monastery Lauchstaedt twice first mentioned as requiring a tenth place in the frieze Lochstat field in a document. Since 1341 belonged to the Dukes of Brunswick, reached the settlement in 1370 to the bishops of Merseburg, corresponding to the location in 1430 and received its town charter in the 16th century extensions an existing castle into a Renaissance castle. 1657 Merseburg was the seat of a branch of the Albertine Saxon. The Lauchstädter castle served from 1684 to 1738 the dukes of Saxe- Merseburg as a residence.

On February 14, 1701 at 9 clock in the morning was in Lauchstaedt in heavy wind storm a conflagration, which in large Fast 34 houses, including the parish and school ashes. In the previous year 27 homes were destroyed in Lauchstaedt, ie within two years a total of 61 houses in three fires.

In 1700 appeared for the insignificant country town a pleasing turn of events: a mineral spring was discovered by chance, the healing effect has been confirmed by the University of Halle. So that was available until today Lauchstädter Heilbrunnen water. Thereupon Erdmuth Duchess Dorothea took care to set up a bath. She left the source enclose and expand the first resort facilities. When the branch line became extinct in 1738, the heritage reverted to the Electorate of Saxony. That was a stroke of luck, because in the second half of the 18th century Lauchstaedt was the preferred resort of the Dresden court and took an exclusive Modebad a significant economic upturn. A Kursaal and a games pavilion were built and installed a summer theater. With the installation of the spa park commenced.

By visiting Goethe's literary importance of the resort began. In 1802 he lived for four weeks in Lauchstaedt and took care of the inauguration of the theater with the foreplay What we bring and the performance of Mozart's opera Titus. Several times he came in the following years again, and especially his wife Christiane was a welcome visitor. Important artists and scholars of the time gave themselves a rendezvous: Fear God Christian Gellert, Johann Christoph Gottsched, Christoph Martin Wieland, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Richard Wagner. Even here in 1789 Schiller had become engaged to Charlotte von Lengefeld.

After the Weimar actor had in 1814 given her last stint, Lauchstaedt lost its appeal. 1815 Merseburg and fell with him Lauchstaedt to Prussia. It was not until 1908, the theater was used again, then again in 1968 with the production of Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris. The spa facilities experienced again a certain flower.

Since 9 October 2008, the city bears the official auxiliary Goethe city.

Incorporations

Schotterey heard since 1 July 1950 Bad Lauchstaedt. Great Gräfendorf was added in 1998. Delitz the mountains, and Klobikau Schafstädt were incorporated in early 2008. Milzau followed in early 2010.

Policy

City ​​council

After the municipal elections of 20 April 2008, the city council of Bad Lauchstaedt is composed as follows:

In addition, the City Council is also part of the directly elected mayor.

Coat of arms and flag

The coat of arms was approved on 25 April 2008 by the county.

Blazon: ". Azure, upright left inverted silver lion with knocked-out tongue, in the forepaws a golden castle with three towers built -supporting towers with pointed roofs beknauften and two round-arched openings with each other "

The coat of arms was redrawn from heraldist Lutz Döring.

The flag of the city 's blue-silver ( white) (1:1) and striped centrally occupied with the arms.

Twinning

Partners town of Bad Lauchstaedt Haan is in North Rhine -Westphalia.

Culture and sights

Structures

• Goethe Theatre, built in 1802 by Heinrich Gentz ​​, together with the
• Kuranlage part of the project Gartenträume Saxony -Anhalt
• Castle
• Evangelical Church, built 1685-1686, tower and vestry of 1499, baptismal font from 1685 Chwatal organ from 1829
• Catholic church of Maria Regina, consecrated in 1994
• Bockwindmühle Bad Lauchstaedt, built in 1850
• Electorate of Saxony Postmeilensäule Bad Lauchstaedt (quarter milestone, 18th Century ) at the Goethe- Theater
• Churches and manor houses in the districts, eg in Unterkriegstedt

Historical monuments

• Several graves in the local cemetery, where five Soviet prisoners of war and an Italian forced laborers were buried who lost their lives in forced labor during the Second World War
• Four graves in the cemetery of the local part Great Gräfendorf where four unknown, probably Italian or Polish forced laborers were buried

Regular events

• Easter Market
• Fountain Festival
• Autumn market
• Christmas Market
• Festival of German Language

Economy and infrastructure

Established businesses

In addition to smaller industrial companies also larger employers such as flowers or Becker mineral springs have settled in Bad Lauchstaedt.

Traffic

• Breakpoints Schafstädt, United Gräfendorf, bathroom Lauchstaedt West Bahnhof Bad Lauchstaedt on the railway line Merseburg - Schafstädt
• Bad Lauchstaedt is connected via the connecting points Schafstädt, bathroom Lauchstaedt and Merseburg - North to the South Harz motorway A 38 ( Göttingen-Halle/Leipzig ).

Personalities

• Johann Gottlieb Radlof (* 1775, † 1846 ), linguists
• August Förster (* 1828, † 1889), actor
• Klaus -Jürgen Grünke (* 1951), racing cyclist
• Karin Bencze (* 1952), politician
• Carlo Thränhardt (* 1957), Athlete
• Reyk Heyer (* 1977), journalist, TV and radio presenter