Reuth, Saxony

Reuth is a municipality in the Vogtland. With the community Weischlitz it forms the administrative community Weischlitz in Vogtland in Saxony. The place name derives " cleared " of starting and indicates the origin of the place.

2.1 Amalgamations
2.2 Population development

3.1 Mayor

Geography

Reuth after Mühltroff the second westernmost municipality in the Free State of Saxony.

Adjacent communities are Rosenbach / Vogtl. and Weischlitz in the Vogtland district and the cities Gefell and Tanna in the Thuringian Saale- Orla-Kreis. Not far away is the Bavarian border with the communities Feilitzsch and Töpen in the district court.

Community structure

Districts of Reuth are

Dehles,
Mißlareuth,
Reinhardt forest,
Reuth,
Schönlind,
Thossen,
Tobertitz.

History

Incorporations

(*) Parts of the territory of Spielmes area due to exchange of Thuringia ceded to Saxony.

Population Development

Development of the population (31 December):

2002: 1079
2003: 1081
2004: 1050
2007: 1028

2008: 1025
2011: 1036

Policy

Mayor

Since 2002 Ulrich Lupart is (DSU ), the current honorary mayor of the community unit Reuth. In 2009 Lupart was confirmed with 93.7 % of the votes cast in office.

Memorials

In the local cemetery, the burial and a memorial to the resistance fighters Robert Schroeder, who was in a concentration camp in 1936 killed remember.

Economy and infrastructure

Reuth has a rail passenger transportation, served by the Vogtlandbahn railway station on the route Leipzig -Hof.

Personalities

Friedrich Ernst von Schönfels (1796-1878), officer, estate owners (including Reuth and Tobertitz ) and liberal politician

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