Löbau-Zittau

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Löbau-Zittau

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State:	Saxony
Capital:	Zittau } } |- | Area:||698.51 km² |- | Inhabitants:||152,304 (2001) |- | pop. density:||218 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||ZI |- | Homepage:||http://www.lra-loebau-zittau.de |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center| |} Löbau-Zittau is a Kreis (district) in the east of Saxony, Germany. Neighboring districts are the district Bautzen in the north-west and the Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis in the north. To the east is Poland, and to the south the Czech Republic. Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Coat of arms 4 Towns and municipalities 5 External links History The district was formed in 1994 by merging the two previous districts Löbau and Zittau. Geography The main river in the district is the Lausitzer Neiße, which also forms the boundary to Poland. It is mostly hilly landscape of the Lausitzer Bergland; the highest elevation is the Lausche with 793 m above sea level. Coat of arms The coat of arms show a typical house of the area, with two towers behind it. The towers represents the town halls of the cities Löbau and Zittau. Towns and municipalities Towns Verwaltungsgemeinschaften free municipalities Bernstadt¹ Ebersbach Herrnhut¹ Löbau¹ Neugersdorf Neusalza-Spremberg¹ Ostritz Seifhennersdorf Zittau ¹ administrated inside a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Bernstadt/Schönau-Berzdorf Herrnhut Löbau Neusalza-Spremberg Olbersdorf Beiersdorf-Oppach Eibau Großschönau Hainewalde Hirschfelde Leutersdorf Mittelherwigsdorf Niedercunnersdorf Obercunnersdorf Oderwitz Oybin Schlegel External links [Official website] (German) Cities and rural districts in the Federal State of Saxony in Germany Cities Chemnitz | Dresden | Görlitz | Hoyerswerda | Leipzig | Plauen | Zwickau Rural districts Annaberg | Aue-Schwarzenberg | Bautzen | Chemnitzer Land | Delitzsch | Döbeln | Freiberg | Kamenz | Leipziger Land Löbau-Zittau | Meißen | Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis | Mittweida | Muldentalkreis | Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis Riesa-Großenhain | Sächsische Schweiz | Stollberg | Torgau-Oschatz | Vogtlandkreis | Weißeritzkreis | Zwickauer Land   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: