Lucka is a town in the
Thuringian
landkreis of
Altenburger Land.
History
The settlement of the area around Lucka occurred in the early
Stone Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4,000 BC and 2,000 BC, with t ...
(5000-2500 b.c.). Lucka was first mentioned in writing in 1320 as "opidum Luckowe". The area was also the site of a
battle in 1307 between the
Habsburg
The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...
s and the
Wettins. Within the
German Empire
The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...
(1871–1918), Lucka was part of the
Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg.
International relations
Lucka is
twinned with:
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Unterschleißheim,
Bavaria
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Weselberg
Weselberg is a municipality in the Wallhalben municipality of the Südwestpfalz district of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. The sister portion of the town on the western outskirts is Zeselberg. The chief economic activity is agriculture.
The ...
,
Rhineland-Palatinate
Town Division
Lucka is divided into three parts: the town itself, Breitenhain and Prößdorf.
Personalities
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Otto Engert
Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".
The name is recorded fro ...
— a Communist politician (b. in Prößdorf)
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Erika Zuchold
Erika Zuchold (''née'' Barth; 19 March 1947 – 22 August 2015) was an East German gymnast who competed at the European, World, and Olympic level from the mid-1960s to early 1970s.
She and Karin Janz were the two most significant (in terms of m ...
- World Champion and Olympic Medalist in Gymnastics
References
*The information in this article is based on and/or translated from that found in its German equivalent.
Altenburger Land
Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg
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