DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Freistaat Sachsen	Saxony
Landkreis: Leipzig

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The spa town Bad Lausick is situated at an elevation of 164 m in the Middle Saxony hill country (Mittelsächsisches Hügelland) at the edge of the landscape conservation are Colditzer Forst, about 25 km southeast of Leipzig. Bad Lausick is the seat of the administrative union Bad Lausick which comprises the municipalities Bad Lausick and Otterwisch. Bad Lausick has a population of about 8,750 (2007).

The earliest written mention of Luzke is found in a document of 1096. Ten years later the lord of Groitzsch founded a monastery the church of St. Kilian. In the middle of the 12th century Lausick had obtained the privileges of a market place. However, the town was almost completely destroyed by a large fire in 1605. Lausick was looted twice during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), further fires occurred in 1649, 1667, 1693 and finally in 1719. In the course of the mining activities for brown coal, mineral waters were discovered in 1820. The first spa was opened only one year later. In 1887 Lausick was connected to the railroad system after the opening of the railway from Neukieritzsch to Chemnitz. The predicate Bad (spa) was officially added to the town's name in 1913. The neighbouring communities of Ballendorf, Buchheim, Ebersbach, Etzoldshain, Glasten, Lauterbach and Thierbaum were incorporated into the municipality in 1994. Steinbach, Beucha, Kleinbeucha and Stockheim were incorporated into Bad Lausick in 1999.

The Kurbad (Kurhaus) Hermannsbad, the oldest spa in Bad Lausick, was originally opened in 1821. It was named for its founder and first owner, Gottlieb Friedrich Hermann. The spa was later converted into a stock corporation. In 1930 the health insurance company Barmenia from Leipzig acquired the premises and began to continuously extend the facilities. During the 1950s the original mineral water and mud bath was converted to a sanatorium for cardiovascular diseases.