Lohmen
Lohmen is a municipality in Saxony, and is there in the district of Saxon Switzerland & Eastern Ore Mountains. It is the seat of the administrative community Lohmen / Wehlen.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 partner communities
Geography
Lohmen enjoys a central location between Pirna and the Saxon Switzerland National Park.
Districts
Districts are Daube, Doberzeit, Mühlsdorf and Uttewalde. The place Lohmen itself is divided generally into upper, middle and Unterlohmen, which is determined by the centrally located mountain in place.
The district Lohmen is centrally located in the municipality, which is adjoined the districts Mühlsdorf and stave in the northwest and west. A bit further on is the village of Doberzeit in the southwest, the district Uttewalde located in the southeast at the northwestern foot of Bear's Stone.
Lohmen and Mühlsdorf have the structure of a forest hides the village, while in the districts stave Doberzeit and Uttewalde the form of settlement Rundling has not yet received a large extent.
Neighboring communities
Surrounding municipalities are Dürrröhrsdorf -Dittersbach in the north, Hohenstein in the east, Rathen in the southeast, Struppen in the south, Wehlen in the southwest, and the county town of Pirna in the West.
History
In 1292 Lohmen is first mentioned. The place name is derived from the old Slavic lom "break". In the area around 1200, there was already the first limestone quarries and thus the first in the wider area at all.
The place and the rule Wehlen - Lohmen belonged to 1543 the Lords of Schoenburg, as this property in exchange for other goods to the sovereign, Margrave Maurice of Saxony, passed. The rule was shortly afterwards connected with the reign Hohnstein to a shared office, which lasted until the 19th century, merged into the new Amtshauptmannschaft Pirna.
In GDR times, a children's holiday camp had been set up and maintained in the stave mill in Liebethaler reason.
Incorporations
Policy
Parish council
Since the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, the 16 seats of the council are distributed as follows among the various parties:
Partner communities
With Oberteuringen in Baden -Wuerttemberg was founded in 1991 a partnership with Pielgrzymka in Poland since 1996. Lohmen with the community in Mecklenburg since 1990, friendly relations, which were sealed in 2006 through a partnership deed. Friendly relations existed since 200 also Svoboda nad Úpou in the Czech Republic.
Public institutions
- Volunteer Fire Lohmen
- Primary school Lohmen
- Daycare facilities: Kindergarten and nursery
- Castle Lohmen 1: Local government
Economy and Transport
Elector Johann Georg I, built in 1765, a master sheep in the castle. In the basement in a building of this castle he built a Kammergutsbrauerei. Owner of this brewery was F. A. Uhlemann. Since 1895, she headed Oswin Mauksch and in 1808 they leased Ewald Seidel. 1920, the brewery has ceased operations. 1872 Brewery & Malthouse H. Büttner was established which lasted until its closure in 1987.
With a breakpoint Lohmen located on the southern part of the railway line Kamenz- Pirna, Pirna of the relation - is operated Neustadt in Sachsen.
Culture and sights
For Lohmener area include the Bastion, Castle Rock Neurathen and Lohmener gorge in Wesenitztal and the former mill hole with the Richard Wagner monument and the hydroelectric plant stave mill.
In Uttewalder reason the Uttewalder Tor is a popular tourist destination. Worth seeing is the castle rebuilt by the municipality is located.
The village church was, in 1789, built in the French Revolution by an apprentice of the builder of the Dresden Frauenkirche George Bähr and has its structurally identical counterpart in Uhyst on divers. An architectural element is applied here construction with side tower and altar - pulpit organ in a line. In addition, it is equipped with 835 seats, the largest religious building in the Saxon Switzerland and one of the largest parish churches in Saxony.
Personalities
On 23 February 2006, the municipality of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the local dialect poet Bruno Barthel celebrated. His well-known works in di Bastion rim describes life in the community Lohmen. It is written in Saxon dialect.
In Lohmen lived and worked also Carl Heinrich Nicolai, who began with Wilhelm Leberecht Götzinger at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century to develop the Saxon Switzerland touristy. A plaque on the Basteibrücke honors these two men.