Löbnitz
Löbnitz is a municipality in the north of Saxony at the border with Saxony- Anhalt.
Geography and transport
Löbnitz is up to the trough, between the Leipzig lowlands and the Duebener Heath. Neighboring towns of Löbnitz are Delitzsch (14 km), Pouch ( 5 km), Bitterfeld (15 km), Bad Duben (9 km) and Reibitz ( 4 km).
To the west of the community until recent years opencast brown coal was mined. The now flooded opencast mining holes are reclaimed and turned into a recreational area. So is now in the west of the municipality of 6.22 square kilometers Seelhauser lake. The flooding was accelerated by the flood of the century, in August 2002, because of the well dike between Löbnitz and Pouch broke and the dump flood brought the mining Goitzsche to overflowing.
The state road 12 from Bad Duben to the border with Pouch performs Löbnitz. South of the village, the B runs 183a. In the district Roitzschjora is a designated as a commercial airfield airfield.
By 1964, still existed a ferry crossing over the trough after Rösa.
Community structure
Districts: Löbnitz, Roitzschjora, Sausedlitz, Reibitz
History
Löbnitz was first mentioned in 995 as Liubanisci. Originally it was a fief of the Counts Asic, the time of King Otto III. the Diocese of Meissen was given.
Attractions
- Protestant parish church Löbnitz church hall with rich early Baroque interior; built as a three-nave Romanesque pillar basilica in the 13th century, 16th century rebuilt in the second half for the church hall, plastered brick building with straight chancel and basket -arched windows. Tower with a square base, cross roof and gables, golden weathervane in 2007, interior with impressive painted wooden Renaissance coffered ceiling of 1691; 168 fields biblical depictions of the Old Testament and New Testament, portraits of the Apostles, the Church Fathers, as well as of Luther and Melanchthon, framed by floral Grisaillenmalerei and representations music making angels; in the choir Patronatsloge from the 16th century, bez. 1586
- In Löbnitz there is a Catholic church, other churches are in Reibitz and Sausedlitz
- Windmills in Löbnitz and Reibitz, the latter was converted from the devastated Werbelin
- Fountain built in 2001 Löbnitz
- The manor house was remodeled in Löbnitz for nursing home
- Landschulheim in Reibitz
- Camping in Roitzschjora, at an old Muldearm
- Seelhausener lake
- Goitzsche
- Mulde Valley ( near-natural wetland landscape with protected wildlife )
Goitzsche and Seelhausener lake are of a asphalt bike and Skaterweg orbits (total length about 25 km). From the riverside path Bitterfeld Bitterfeld are with the bow, Pouch with the historic Red Tower and Mühlbeck visible to the beach resort.
Löbnitz is on the edge of the Duebener Heath (on the other side trough the boroughs Rösa Brösa and Pouch already in or close to the National Park Duebener Heide). The trough is bordered Löbnitz from the north by the municipalities mentioned and also forms the border with Saxony -Anhalt. Along the trough dam runs on a regional cycle route (Dessau - Wurzen ). Löbnitz is connected to the Fernreitwegnetz.
Church in Reibitz
Church in Sausedlitz
Döbler mill in Löbnitz
Fountain in Löbnitz
Nursing home in Löbnitz
Regular events
In Reitstadion Löbnitz every year in the spring, the international Löbnitzer riding and show jumping tournament.
On the airfield Roitzschjora the With Full Force Festival is aligned to the first weekend in July. In 2012 there were during the festival due to a lightning strike 69 injured.
Personalities
- Anita Hentschel ( born December 12, 1942), track and field athlete and Olympian