Lauingen

Lauingen
Lauingen
	The town hall
	Coat of arms
	Location of Lauingen within Dillingen district
	Lauingen Lauingen
	Coordinates: 48°34′N 10°26′E
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Schwaben
District	Dillingen
Government
• Mayor	Katja Müller (CSU)
Area
• Total	44.39 km2 (17.14 sq mi)
Elevation	439 m (1,440 ft)
Population (2018-12-31)[1]
• Total	11,000
• Density	250/km2 (640/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	89415
Dialling codes	09072
Vehicle registration	DLG
Website	www.Lauingen.de

Lauingen is a town in the district of Dillingen in Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the left bank of the Danube, 5 km west of Dillingen, and 37 km northeast of Ulm.

Sculpture with bridge across the Danube

In June 1800, the armies of the French First Republic, under command of Jean Victor Moreau, fought Habsburg regulars and Württemberg contingents, under the general command of Pál Kray. Kray had taken refuge in the fortress at Ulm; Moreau diverted his army to approach Ulm from the east. Kray had ordered preparation for the destruction of all the bridges across the Danube, including the one at Lauingen. A small group of French captured a foothold on the northern bank of the Danube by Grensheim, and Moreau's forces were able to move against the fortress on both sides of the river. At this battle, the culmination of the Danube Campaign of 1800, Moreau forced Kray to abandon Ulm and withdraw into eastern Bavaria.[2]

Sons and daughters of the town

Lauingen Albertus Magnus memorial in front of the town hall

Albertus Magnus (around 1200-1280), Dominican, bishop and important Aristotelian scholar
Martin Ruland the Younger (1569-1611), physician and alchemist
Nikolaus Geiger (1849-1897), painter and sculptor
Heinz Piontek (1925-2003), writer and Büchner Prize winner lived from 1947 to 1955 in Lauingen

International relations

Lauingen is twinned with:

View of the town

References

"Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). July 2019.
"Höchstädt", History of the Wars of the French Revolution: Including Sketches of the Civil History of Great Britain and France, from the Revolutionary Movements, 1788, to the Restoration of a General Peace, 1815, Kuhl, France, 1820, p. 183.

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[1] "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). July 2019.

[2] "Höchstädt", History of the Wars of the French Revolution: Including Sketches of the Civil History of Great Britain and France, from the Revolutionary Movements, 1788, to the Restoration of a General Peace, 1815, Kuhl, France, 1820, p. 183.