Lauta is a village in the Saxon town of Marienberg in the German district of Erzgebirgskreis.

Southwest of Lauta lies the 688 m above sea level (NN) high Dreibrüderhöhe, southeast of the village is the 655 m above NN high Lautaer Höhe.Until the opening of the Marienberg ring road in 2007 the B 174 federal road from Chemnitz to Reitzenhain passed through the village.

[2] Mining started in 1523 with Bauernzeche pit on the ore vein Bauer Morgengang.

A rare mineral that was found in 1881 in Rudolph-Schacht mine was examined by the Freiberg mineralogist A. Frenzel and was named Lautite.

The water is fed into the Neunzehnhain II reservoir which supplies the city of Chemnitz.