Loßburg is a municipality in the district of

Freudenstadt Freudenstadt (Swabian: ''Fraidestadt'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is capital of the district Freudenstadt. The closest population centres are Offenburg to the west (approx. 36 km away) and Tübingen to the eas ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

in southern

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Geography

Kinzig

The source of the Kinzig is located on the

Gemarkung A ''Gemarkung'' (also ''Markung'', in Switzerland also ''Gemarchen'', in Austria ''Katastralgemeinde'') is the entirety of all land plots of a specific municipality recorded in the cadastre in the countries of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Gem ...

of Loßburg.

Municipal Structure

The town of Loßburg consists of the eight districts Loßburg, Betzweiler, Lombach, Schömberg, Sterneck, Wälde, Wittendorf and 24-Höfe a district consisting of several hamlets and homesteads.

Politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of the elected council members and the mayor as chair of the committee. Result of the last election on 26 May 2019.

Mayor

Christoph Enderle was elected 2013 as mayor of Loßburg. His predecessor was Thilo Schreiber.

Crest

Blazon In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The vi ...

: "On blue background a green hill and a silver tower. Above the tower is the white letter ''L''."

Town twinning

Loßburg is twinned with Anse (France), Harta (Hungary), and Hammerbrücke (Saxony).

References

Freudenstadt (district) Württemberg {{Freudenstadt-geo-stub