Taucha

Taucha is a small city inside the district of North Saxony, northeast of Leipzig, on whose city area it's far directly adjacent. The area turned into first stated in 974 as urbs Cothung in the chronicle of Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg. 1170 obtained the market patch cloth with the aid of the Magdeburg archbishop Wichmann of Seeburg the town right. This ought to construct a opposition to Meissnische Leipzig. Archbishop Albert of Magdeburg built a fort and town wall in 1220 as a visible expression of city autonomy.

In 1282, Dietrich von Landsberg, Margrave of Meissen, besieged the metropolis and, after taking it, dragged the citadel. After the Archbishop of Magdeburg Otto finally renounced the possession of the city in 1355, Taucha sooner or later reached a feudal feudal rule. The Leipzig Council sold 1569 Schloss und Rittergut Taucha. In 1621, there was a tipper mint within the metropolis, in which tipper coins had been beaten beneath the mint masters Matthias von Neuss and David Wolke.