Riesa-Großenhain

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Riesa-Großenhain

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State:	Saxony
Capital:	Großenhain } } |- | Area:||820.51 km² |- | Inhabitants:||120,539 (2001) |- | pop. density:||147 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||RG |- | Homepage:||http://www.riesa-grossenhain.de |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center| |} Riesa-Großenhain is a district in Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Elbe-Elster and Oberspreewald-Lausitz in Brandenburg, Kamenz, Meißen, Döbeln and Torgau-Oschatz. Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Coat of arms 4 Towns and municipalities 5 External links History The district was created in 1994 by merging the two previous districts Riesa and Großenhain. Geography The district is situated in the plain countryside north of the virtual line connecting Leipzig and Dresden. The main river is the Elbe which runs through the district from south to northwest. Coat of arms The linden branch in the left of the coat of arms symbolizes the nature in the district, and is also a symbol for Riesa as it was present in the coat of arms of Riesa since 1623. The black lion on yellow ground stands for Großenhain, as it is also present in then coat of arms of the city Großenhain. The cogwheel in the bottom symbolizes the industrial tradition of the district, mostly iron and steel production, engineering and textile production. Towns and municipalities Towns Verwaltungsgemeinschaften free municipalities Gröditz¹ Großenhain Riesa Strehla ¹ administrated in a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Gröditz Nünchritz Röderaue-Wülknitz Schönfeld Thiendorf Zabeltitz Ebersbach Hirschstein Priestewitz Röderaue Stauchitz Zeithain 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: