Liebschützberg is a municipality in the district
Nordsachsen
Nordsachsen (, ) is a district (''Districts of Germany, Kreis'') in Saxony, Germany.
History
The district was established by merging the former districts of Delitzsch (district), Delitzsch and Torgau-Oschatz as part of the district reform of Au ...
, in
Saxony
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...
,
Germany
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.
Until 1991 the territory of Liebschützberg and its 1,600 residents were part of the town of
Borna. During the administrative reform of Saxony which followed the
reunification of Germany
German reunification () was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic and the integration of i ...
Liebschützberg became an independent self-governing community (
gemeinde), effective December 31, 1990.
[Kretschmar, Andreas (2006). ''Die Gemeinde Liebschutzberg - ein Kind der Gemeindegebietsreform'', in: Koch, Renate; Wagner, Herbert; Brahmig, Horst-Dieter (2006) ]
Die Geschichte der Kommunalpolitik in Sachsen: von der friedlichen Revolution bis zur Gegenwart
'. Kohlhammer Verlag
W. Kohlhammer Verlag GmbH, or Kohlhammer Verlag, is a German publishing house headquartered in Stuttgart.
History
Kohlhammer Verlag was founded in Stuttgart on 30 April 1866 by . Kohlhammer had taken over the businesses of his late father-in-la ...
. . p. 244. The experience of municipal reform in Liebschützberg is a subject of a study by Andreas Kretschmar (who is, since 2001, mayor of nearby
Oschatz
Oschatz () is a town in the district Nordsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is located 60 km east of Leipzig and 60 km west of Dresden.
Geography
Site and climate
Oschatz lies in the Saxon Lowland and is located on the river Döllnit ...
).
Twin towns
Liebschützberg is
twinned with:
*
Gailingen, Germany
Notes
Nordsachsen
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