Leun

Leun
Coat of arms
Leun
Location of Leun within Lahn-Dill-Kreis district
Coordinates: 50°33′N 08°22′E / 50.550°N 8.367°E / 50.550; 8.367Coordinates: 50°33′N 08°22′E / 50.550°N 8.367°E / 50.550; 8.367
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Gießen
District	Lahn-Dill-Kreis
Government
• Bürgermeisterin	Birgit Sturm
Area
• Total	28.66 km2 (11.07 sq mi)
Elevation	155 m (509 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	5,862
• Density	200/km2 (530/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	35638
Dialling codes	06473
Vehicle registration	LDK
Website	www.leun.de

Leun is a small town in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany.

Leun lies some 10 km west of Wetzlar between the foothills of the northern Taunus and the Westerwald in the Lahn valley, at a height of 150 to 330 m above sea level.

Leun borders in the north on the communities of Greifenstein and Ehringshausen, in the east on the town of Solms, in the south on the town of Braunfels (all in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis) and in the west on the community of Löhnberg (Limburg-Weilburg).

The town consists of the five centres of Biskirchen, Bissenberg, Lahnbahnhof, Leun and Stockhausen.

Leun had its first documentary mention in 771. Building a stone bridge in the late 15th century and being granted market rights helped the village's economic growth, which in 1664 resulted in town rights being granted.

As part of Hesse's municipal reform, the new, bigger town of Leun came into being when the main town of Leun and the other aforesaid communities voluntarily joined together on 1 January 1972.

The municipal elections on 6 March 2016 yielded the following results:

Note: FWG is a citizens' coalition.

The town of Leun maintains partnerships with the following places:

In the historic main town of Leun stands the Evangelical Church, whose exact building date is unknown. The mighty "defensive" tower and the main nave are Romanesque, whereas the sanctuary's and transept's origins are early and late Gothic respectively.

Within the church is an old and, in terms of art history, meaningful, wooden pulpit with panelling showing Southwest Asian motifs. In the transept stands the organ built in 1808 by the brothers Philipp Heinrich and Johann Georg Bürgy. It has 13 stops on one manual keyboard, and a pedalboard. In the tower hang three bells, none of which comes from the bellmaker's that originally did business in the town.