Pegau

Infobox German Location
Art = Stadt
image_photo =
Wappen = Wappen_Pegau.pngWappengröße = 120
lat_deg = 51 |lat_min = 10 |lat_sec = 0
lon_deg = 12 |lon_min = 15 |lon_sec = 0
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Sachsen
Regierungsbezirk = Leipzig
Landkreis = Leipzig
Verwaltungsgemeinschaft = Pegau
Höhe = 127
Fläche = 21.61
Einwohner = 4768
Stand = 2005-12-31
PLZ = 04523
Vorwahl = 03 42 96
Kfz = L
Gemeindeschlüssel = 14 3 79 580
Gliederung = 3
Straße = Markt 1
Adresse-Verband = Markt 1
Website = [http://www.pegau.de www.pegau.de]
Bürgermeister = Peter Bringer

Pegau, a town in the Leipzig district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, situated in a fertile country, on the Weiße Elster, 18 m. S.W. from Leipzig by the railway to Zeitz.

It has two Evangelical churches, that of St. Lawrence being a fine Gothic structure, a 16th-century town-hall; a very old hospital and an agricultural school. In the 19th Century its industries embrace the manufacture of felt, boots and metal wares.

Pegau grew up round a monastery founded in 1096, but does not appear as a town before the close of the 12th century. Markets were held here and its prosperity was further enhanced by its position on a main road running east and west. In the monastery, which was dissolved in 1539, a valuable chronicle was compiled, the "Annales pcgevienses", covering the period from 1039 to 1227.

External links

* [http://www.pegau.de/ Town of Pegau in German]

References

*1911