Leipzig (district)

The district of Leipzig is a 2008 under the Saxon district reform educated county in the north-west of Saxony. It was created through the merger of previously existing districts Leipziger Land and Muldentalkreis.

  • 4.1 District
  • 4.2 Kreistag
  • 4.3 Coat of Arms
  • 5.1 Health Economics
  • 5.2 traffic
  • 6.1 Amalgamations
  • 7.1 Population (as of 1 January 2011)
  • 7.2 surface
  • 7.3 Population Density
  • 7.4 Altitude

Location

The district lies to the south of the independent city of Leipzig on the border of Saxony, Saxony -Anhalt and Thuringia in the west to the southwest; In the north and east, close to the county Nordsachsen and southeast of the county agent Saxony.

Natural space

Geography

The district is located in the Leipzig lowlands and is quite flat. Individual surveys are to be found in the north ( Hohburger Mountains) and in the south of the county. Larger rivers are the trough, the splices and the Weisse Elster. Worth mentioning are the many lakes of the Leipzig New Lakeland in the west of the circle, caused by flooding of former lignite mines.

Conservation

In the district of diverse areas as nature reserves (NSG ), landscape protection areas ( LSG ), Flora and Fauna Habitats ( FFH) and European bird protection areas (SPA ) are reported.

Nature Reserves:

Landscape protection areas:

Sites of Community Importance ( SCI, FFH):

History

In the first Saxon district reform on 1 August 1994, the then district of Leipzig was merged with the counties and Borna Geithain the new district Leipziger Land. At the same time merged the two counties Grimsby and Wurzen the new Muldentalkreis. With effect from 1 August 2008, the district Leipziger Land and Muldentalkreis were joined to form the new district of Leipzig.

Policy

District

On 8 June 2008, the district election took place in the district of Leipzig. Since none of the four candidates could win the required majority, a second ballot was conducted on 22 June 2008 at the prevail Dr. Gerhard Gey (CDU ) with 57.0 % of the vote against a contestant Petra Köpping (SPD, 43%) could. He is therefore the first District Administrator of the newly formed.

Council

The council of the district of Leipzig was also elected on 8 June 2008. The 92 seats on the council are distributed as follows among the individual parties:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 30 October 2009 by the State Directorate of Leipzig.

Blazon: "Under a silver shield main, is three blue wave beams, split of blue and green; forward a golden castle: over a crenellated wall with gate a crenellated tower. behind a silver gin accompanied by three golden four-leaf flowers. "

In order to find a new circle coat of arms, a design contest was held. In November 2008, a draft was declared the winner, who suggested a lion on a blue background, surrounded by five stars. In discussions it was pointed out that this draft represents only a small part of the new circle and also there is the likelihood of confusion with existing coat of arms. On 3 June 2009 the council decided a different design with a large majority. The coat of arms of the district of Leipzig is in three parts. It combines three heraldic motifs, which stand for the three new district of Leipzig culturally and economically dominant regions.

  • In chief three blue wavy lines symbolize the Leipzig Lake, the newly emerging in the wake of the reclamation and restoration of the former opencast mine holes and counting the Saxon Lakeland landscape south of Leipzig.
  • The castle in the ( heraldic ) right half of the shield refers to the Gnandstein, belonging to the city Kohren- Sahlis hamlet of the same name. The castle is regarded as Saxony's best preserved Romanesque fortification and is the flagship of the tourism region Kohrener country.
  • For the eastern part is the circle ( heraldic ) left half of the shield, in the confluence of Zwickau and Freiberger Mulde is represented by a silver gin on a green background. It is the coat of arms adopted in slightly varied form of the former Mulde circle, accompanied by golden flowers, which were in turn an allusion to its predecessor circles.

Economy and infrastructure

In December 2012, the city of Leipzig, the districts of Leipzig and Saxony North and the Leipzig Chamber of Industry decided to form the common WRL Economic Development Region Leipzig GmbH.

Health Economics

In the district there are four hospitals in the standard care, and indeed the two private clinics Leipziger Land, consisting of the clinic Borna ( with certified special ward for stroke patients, breast and colon center ) and the clinic Zwenkau ( structurally connected with the Helios - geriatric center ) and the Mulde two clinics in Grimsby and Wurzen under the auspices of the district. In addition, the Hospital for Neurology and Psychiatry in Zschadraß work with the diakonia as a carrier and the Neurological Rehabilitation Center in Bennewitz with 40 acute care beds in the hands of private clinics Michels. The Michels clinics are also the guarantors of Sachsen clinic in the spa town of Bad Lausick, a rehabilitation clinic for orthopedics, neurology and psychosomatics. The city is home to the median hospital another private rehabilitation clinic, specifically for cardiovascular disease, and orthopedics. In northern Naunhof the Saxons Clinic is (with the hyphen! ) Naunhof, a rehabilitation clinic for diseases of the musculoskeletal system. The compartment Brandis Hospital is a rehabilitation hospital for orthopedics, rheumatology, psychosomatic medicine and neurology. 2010 started off with the Free State three model regions for geriatric care in Saxony from, including the supply network GeriNet Leipzig -Süd ( HelioS ).

The supplier established in 1963 for otolaryngologists dantschke MEDICAL headquartered in Markham and ESA electric Grimma GmbH as a supplier of hospitals and medical facilities used with switchgear and assemblies to complete power supply are among the leading medical technology companies in Saxony.

Traffic

As major roads in the county include the Federal highways 9, 14, 38 and 72 as well as the federal highways 2, 6, 7, 93, 95, 107, 175, 176 and 186 as an important transportation hub is to mention the motorway junction Parthenaue. The extension of the A 72 from Chemnitz to Leipzig is under construction.

Through the circle area in addition the Railroads Leipzig- Riesa- Dresden, Leipzig- chub - Meissen, Leipzig- Chemnitz run with the major branch route Leipzig- Geithain, Leipzig-Altenburg-Zwickau/Hof, Leipzig- Zeitz -Gera and Leipzig- Großkorbetha.

The White Elster and the trough that run through the county, are not navigable.

Cities and Towns

( Population figures from December 31, 2012)

Large district towns

Other cities

Communities

Management Communities

  • Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Bad Lausick with the member municipalities Bad Lausick and Otterwisch
  • Administration Community Geithain with the member communities Geithain and Narsdorf
  • Administration Community Naunhof with the member communities Belgershain, Naunhof and Parthenstein
  • Administration Community Pegau with the member communities Elstertrebnitz and Pegau
  • Administration Community Wyke Regis with the member communities Deutzen and Wyke Regis
  • Administration Community Rötha with the member communities aspen grove and Rötha

Incorporations

  • Resolution of the municipality Wyhratal - incorporation to Borna (1 January 2004 )
  • Resolution of the municipality Eulatal - incorporation to Frohnburg (1 January 2009 )
  • Resolution of the municipality Großbothen - incorporation to Grimsby (1 January 2011 )
  • Resolution of the municipality Thümmlitzwalde - incorporation to Grimsby (1 January 2011 )
  • Resolution of the municipality Mutzschen - incorporation to Grimsby (1 January 2012 )
  • Resolution of the municipality fawns - incorporation to Pegau (1 January 2012 )
  • Resolution of the communities Falk grove and Hohburg - merger to Lossatal (1 January 2012 )

Statistical data for the county

Population (as of 1 January 2011)

  • After the incorporations of Thümmlitzwalde and parts of Großbothen on 1 January 2011 and 1 January 2012 Mutzschen of the large district town Grimsby is the most populous city of the county, before it was Markham.
  • The lowest number of inhabitants with 1,395 inhabitants, the municipality Elstertrebnitz.

Surface

  • The largest area of ​​expansion has the Great Grimsby district town 217 km ².
  • Deutzen is 6.62 km ² in area, the smallest municipality of the district.
  • The town of Grimsby has the most districts with a total of 65.

Population density

  • With 774 inhabitants per km ² Markham has the highest population density.

Altitude

  • The highest community is Narsdorf 252 m above sea level. NN.
  • At 110 m above sea level. NN. lies the community Thallwitz the lowest.
Administrative centre Borna, Leipzig Mittelsachsen Hohburg Hills Neuseenland Naturschutzgebiet National Democratic Party of Germany Gnandstein Castle Brandis, Germany Markkleeberg Colditz Frohburg Kitzscher Borsdorf Espenhain Machern Neukieritzsch Kitzen Falkenhain Bautzen (district) Erzgebirgskreis Zwickau (district) Integrated Authority File
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