Lauda Königshofen

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Land of the Federal Republic:	Baden-Wuerttemberg
governmental district:	Stuttgart
district:	Main deaf circle
geographical situation:	Coordinates: 49° 34 ' N, 09° 42 ' O 49° 34 ' N, 09° 42 ' O
height:	192 m and. NN
surface:	94.47 km ²
inhabitants:	15.244 (31. Dec. 2004)
Population density:	161 inhabitants for each km ²
foreigner portion:	5.7%
postal zip code:	97922 (old: 6970)
Preselection:	09343
Kfz characteristics:	TBB
municipality key:	08 1 28 139
city arrangement:	12 quarters of urban districts
address of the city administration:	Market place 1 97922 Lauda Königshofen
official Website:	www.lauda-koenigshofen.de
E-Mail address:
Politics
mayor:	Thomas Maertens (CDU)
Lauda

the wine city Lauda Königshofen is appropriate for the northernmost circle of Baden-Wuerttemberg in the Main deaf circle , between the district town deaf bishop home and the large district town bath Mergentheim in that historically as Franconia country of Baden admitted region.

1 Geografie
- 1,1 geographical situation
- of 1,2 city arrangement
2 history
- 2,1 religions
3 politics
- 3,1 partnerships between cities
4 culture and objects of interest
- 4,1 regular meetings
5 economics and infrastructure
- 5,1 traffic
- 5,2 authorities and mechanisms
6 personalities
- of 6,1 sons and daughters of the city
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Geografie

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geographical layer

an advantage of the city is the central and traffic-favorable situation at the “romantic road “in the heart of the “lovely deaf valley “in 189 to 320 meters height.

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city arrangement

the individual local parts with numbers of inhabitants (conditions 2001):

Beckstein 372
Deubach 118
Gerlachsheim 1888
tail field 470
king yards 2815
Lauda 5745
Marbach 262
Messelhausen 336
Oberbalbach 698
Oberlauda 742
Saxonia corridor 351
Unterbalbach 1634

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history

21. January 1344: Award of the municipal law at Lauda

1492 award of the market privilege at king yards by emperors Friedrich III.

At the 3. June 1525 took place on the tower mountain at king yards an important battle of the farmer war , in which in the fight against the knights under George Truchsess of Waldburg Zeil several thousand farmers to death came.

Likewise on the tower mountain violent engagements took place , at those at the 1 at Easter 1945 at the invasion of the US-American troops. April king yards to three quarters was destroyed.

Lauda Königshofen reached in the course of the municipality reform of the country Baden-Wuerttemberg the 1. And further municipalities unite January 1975 from the two cities Lauda and king yards again in an educated manner.

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religions

most inhabitants are catholic (68.9%) or Evangelist (17.9%).

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politics

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partnerships between cities

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culture and objects of interest

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regular meetings

annual find around deaf-Franconia-resound starting from that 3. September weekend the 10-tägige Königshöfer fair instead of.

The Heavy Metal finds twice annual - festival Keep It True in deaf-Franconia-resounds instead of.

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economics and infrastructure

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traffic

in the city cross the lines Stuttgart - Heilbronn - peppering castle, Crailsheim - peppering castle and Crailsheim - Aschaffenburg. It belongs to the traffic community of Main-deaf . Lauda had in former times an important engine shed, which contributed as occupation guarantor to the growth of the population substantially. In the quarter king yards federal highway 290 and federal highway 292 meet one another .

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