Lebach Explained

Type:	Stadt
Image Coa:	Wappen Lebach.svg
Coordinates:	49.41°N 6.91°W
Image Plan:	Lebach in SLS.svg
State:	Saarland
District:	Saarlouis
Elevation:	200-450
Area:	64.15
Postal Code:	66811–66822
Area Code:	06881
Licence:	SLS
Gemeindeschlüssel:	10 0 44 112
Mayor:	Klauspeter Brill^[1]
Leader Term:	2019 - 29
Party:	independent

Lebach is a town in the district of Saarlouis, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated approximately 15km (09miles) northeast of Saarlouis, and 20km (10miles) north of Saarbrücken. As of 2020, its population was 18,828.

Inhabitants

Population development
align=left	Year	1998	2000	2002	2004	2006	2008	2010	2011	2012
align=left	Inhabitants	21.679	21.060	21.540	21.254	20.388	19.962	19.784	19.763	19.456

(31 December)

Mayors

• 1978–2006: Nikolaus Jung, CDU (died 2013)
• 2006–2012: Arno Schmidt, CDU (died 2012^[2])
• since 2013: Klauspeter Brill, independent

On January 22, 2006 Arno Schmidt (CDU) won the election against Jürgen Barke (SPD). Arno Schmidt died in 2012 at the age of 60. Klauspeter Brill was elected as mayor on May 26, 2013.

Transport

Its station is a terminus for the Lebach–Völklingen railway, today part of the Saarbahn.

Education

Daycare centers

• Day care center Aschbach
• Daycare Dörsdorf
• Daycare Lebach
• Daycare Steinbach
• Daycare Thalexweiler
• Kindergarten Herz-Jesu Gresaubach
• Cath. Kindergarten St. Donatus, Landsweiler
• Cath. Kindergarten Hl. Dreifaltigkeit and St. Marien, Lebach
• Day care center "St. Nikolaus", Lebach

^[3]

Elementary schools

• Elementary school Landsweiler
• Elementary school Lebach
• Elementary school Steinbach
• Nikolaus-Groß-School Lebach

^[4]

High schools

• Geschwister-Scholl High School Lebach
• Johannes-Kepler High School Lebach

Community schools

• Theeltalschule Lebach
• Nikolaus-Groß-Schule Lebach

Vocational school

• BBZ Lebach

Notable people

• Rainer Bastuck (born 1960), racing driver and entrepreneur
• Nadine Schön (born 1983), politician (CDU)

Personalities who work, worked or died in the town

• Günther Kastenfrosch (born 1872), international celebrity, lives under the Breeck
• Klaus Steinbach (born 1953), swimming sportsman, lives in Lebach

See also

• Thalexweiler

External links

• Official homepage

Notes and References

1. https://www.saarland.de/stat/DE/_downloads/aktuelleTabellen/Wahlen/Direktwahlen/Gew%C3%A4hlte_B%C3%BCrgermeister_und_Landr%C3%A4te_im_Saarland.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=11 Gewählte Ober-/Bürgermeister*innen, Landrät*innen und Regionalverbandsdirektor*in im Saarland
2. Web site: www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de. https://web.archive.org/web/20131028205719/http://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/aufmacher/lokalnews/Lebacher-Buergermeister-Arno-Schmidt-ist-tot;art27857,4566629. dead. October 28, 2013.
3. Web site: Stadt Lebach - Kindertagesstätten. www.lebach.de. 2019-01-10.
4. Web site: Stadt Lebach - Schulen. www.lebach.de. 2019-01-10.