Zwenkau is a town in the district of Leipzig , in Saxony , Germany . Situated between the White Elster and Pleiße rivers, it nestles in the Leipzig Bay and includes parts of the conservation area Elsteraue and Central Germany's Street of Lignite . It is situated within the Central German Metropolitan Region .
7-430: The town lies about 15 km south of Leipzig and 3 km northwest of the industrial site Böhlen / Lippendorf with its landmark, Lippendorf Power Station . A former open-cast mine extending from the northeast of Zwenkau to its northwest was set on September 30, 1999 and is currently being rehabilitated and converted to Lake Zwenkau . Several smaller towns and hamlets belong to Zwenkau, being The rural areas of
14-537: Is in 974 where it is described as Civitas in Gau Chutizi. [...] In 1929 the towns Imnitz and Kotzschbar which immediately connected to the south of Zwenkau's urban area were amalgamated. In the shadow of Leipzig's development Zwenkau grew slowly. In 1748 almost 90 households were counted, this is equivalent to 450 to 500 inhabitants. After the Seven Years' War the town experienced a commercial boom and
21-404: The area was opened in 1924. Böhlen mining started near the north west of the town. The first power station was built in 1925. During World War II bomb attacks on the power station in 1944 and 1945 destroyed parts of the village. In the mid-1960s a second power station was built in the municipality of Spahnsdorf and parts of Lippendorf. The current town was incorporated on 1 January 1973. In 1997
28-427: The east is Rotha , to the south is Neukieritzsch and to the west is Russen-Kleinstorkwitz The first record of the village of Lippendorf was in 1378. The character of the place was rural for a long time. Only from the 1920s did the then village develop into an industrial centre, mainly due to the lignite , also called brown coal , formed from naturally compressed peat , found in the area. The first lignite mine in
35-520: The following results: This Leipzig location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lippendorf Lippendorf is located in the municipality of Neukieritzsch , near Leipzig in Saxony , Germany . The present town of Lippendorf used to be known as the village of Medewitzsch. In 1934, the towns of Medewitzsch, Lippendorf and Spahnsdorf combined to form the new town of Lippendorf. North of town are Böhlen and Zwenkau , to
42-413: The historic town Eythra and parts of Bösdorf, both abandoned in favor of lignite deposits in the 1980s, are also administered by the town of Zwenkau and bordered in the west. Prehistoric colonization in the area of Zwenkau was affirmed by archaeological finds dated around 6000 BC. Zwenkau is one of the oldest cities in what is now Saxony . As a Slavic settlement, the earliest documentary mention known
49-583: The population increased fivefold in less than one-hundred years. So before industrialization in Europe started, 2419 residents were counted in 1834. In the first half of the 20th century Zwenkau developed quickly due to the lignite mining industry and dependent business. From 1950 to 1990 the town lost forty percent of its residents. Since then the population increased mainly as a result of amalgamation of nearby rural towns and hamlets. The elections in May 2014 showed
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