The landscape outside of the floodplain was formed by ice age (Wolstonian Stage) terminal moraines.

In 1282 Dietrich von Landsberg, the Margrave of Meissen, sieged the city and razed the castle after capturing it.

After Archbishop Otto von Hessen finally renounced ownership of the city in 1355, Taucha became a fief of the Margravate of Meissen.

The mint produced so-called Kippermünzen, a coin currency used during the crisis of Kipper und Wipper.

[3] The city was a member of the Gerichtsamt Taucha from 1856 until 1875, when it joined the administrative district (Amtshauptmannschaft) of Leipzig.

[4] In 1935 the group Mitteldeutsche Motorenwerke, a subsidiary of the Auto Union, began construction of an engine works in the city on Graßdorfer Straße.

The plant was camouflaged in a large forest area, partially lying in the city of Leipzig.