Type: | Stadt |
Image Coa: | Wappen_Laucha_an_der_Unstrut.png |
Coordinates: | 51.2236°N 11.6797°W |
Image Plan: | Laucha in BLK.svg |
State: | Sachsen-Anhalt |
District: | Burgenlandkreis |
Verbandsgemeinde: | Unstruttal |
Elevation: | 196 |
Area: | 31.12 |
Postal Code: | 06636 |
Area Code: | 034462 |
Licence: | BLK |
Gemeindeschlüssel: | 15 0 84 285 |
Website: | www.stadt-laucha.de |
Mayor: | Michael Bilstein[1] |
Leader Term: | 2024 - 31 |
Laucha an der Unstrut (English: Laucha on the Unstrut) is a town in the Burgenlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the river Unstrut, 13km (08miles) northwest of Naumburg and 7km (04miles) west of Freyburg. It is part of the Verbandsgemeinde (collective municipality) of Unstruttal and is in the Saale-Unstrut wine region. On 1 July 2009 it absorbed the former municipalities Burgscheidungen and Kirchscheidungen.[2]