The Hoyerswerda Riots were xenophobic riots that lasted from 17 to 23 September 1991 in Hoyerswerda, a town in the north-east of Saxony, Germany.
Low Lusatian German (in German: Niederlausitzer Mundart (also English: Low Lusatian Dialect)) is a variety of Central German spoken in northern Saxony and southern Brandenburg within the regions of Lower Lusatia (Cottbus) and the northern part of Upper Lusatia (Hoyerswerda).
It is organised as a "special purpose association" (German: Zweckverband), the members of which are the towns of Chemnitz, Crimmitschau, Ehrenfriedersdorf and Hoyerswerda.