Loßburg is a municipality in the district of
Freudenstadt
Freudenstadt (, Swabian: ''Fraidestadt'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is the capital of the district Freudenstadt. The closest population centres are Offenburg to the west (approx. 36 km away) and Tübingen to ...
in
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, 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 i ...
in southern
Germany
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.
Demographics
Population development:
Geography
Kinzig
The source of the
Kinzig is located on the
Gemarkung
A ''Gemarkung'' (; also ''Markung'', in Switzerland also ''Gemarchen'') is the entirety of all land plots of a specific municipality, or a specific large part of a municipality, recorded in the cadastre in the countries of Germany and Switzerland ...
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 an accurate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The visual d ...
: "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)
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