Falkenhain

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Falk grove is a district of Lossatal in the northeast of the district of Leipzig in Saxony.

Geography

Falk grove is located on the western edge of the Dahlen Heath, about ten kilometers east-northeast of Wurzen. Through the south of the municipal area, the B 6 and the railway line Leipzig -Dresden lead. Through the community's Lossa flows.

History

Two Bronze Age cemeteries at Frauwalde evidence of an early settlement of the area. Falk Hain is mentioned in a document in the foundation charter at the consecration of the church in Sitzenroda in 1198. The name was derived either from German or locator Falko Götz from the Sorbian name Valko.

The place was long regarded as the headquarters of the noble family Falkenhayn.

Frauwalde was incorporated on July 1 and Heyda in the community Falk grove on 1 December 1972. On 1 April 1997 Dorn Reichenbach and Kühnitzsch were incorporated. On 1 January 1999 Thammenhain and Meltewitz were added.

The mining of rocks in the area of spine Reichenbach (so-called spike Reichenbach quartz porphyry ) is very old and is operated today in large quantities. For paving and gravelling Saxon roads quarries in the region are of great importance since the 19th century. Furthermore, bricks and simple Steinmetz objects were produced.

On 1 January 2012, the previously independent, administrative community free community Falk grove was incorporated into the municipality Lossatal.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Shared by green and silver; top diagonally crossed two silver hammers, covered by a silver chisel and beseitet of two golden spikes on leafy stems; below a red hunting horn with gold fittings in black ribbon. "

The coat of arms of Falkenhain ( Lossatal ) is the first crest of a non- autonomous hamlet in Saxony, which was registered under the Registry 3 SN on January 3, 2012 in the German town coat of arms role of HEROLD and documented. Donated it was from Ortschaftsrat Falk grove, to guide it as a symbol of local - local identity outside of official acts. The design took over the Kommunalheraldiker Jörg Mantzsch, which led it to certification.

Hammers and chisels are available for the quarrying, the ears for agriculture as an essential economic basis of the past, while the bugle from the arms which is borrowed from Falk grove.

The split of green and silver plate increases with the color green with respect to the natural environment Falk grove that borders on the Dahlen Heath.

Attractions

• Church
• Castle

Education

A high school located in Falkenberg grove.

Personalities

• Pöge Hermann (1840-1894), entrepreneur
• Reinhardt Hassa ( born 1952 ), manager
• Holger Pohland (* 1963), Athlete