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unusual facts about Upper Lusatia



Bogatynia

The settlement of Richnow in the historical region of Upper Lusatia was first mentioned in a 1262 deed, then a possession of Cistercian St. Marienthal Abbey near Ostritz.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Born in Breslau in the Prussian Silesia as the son of a Reformed Church chaplain in the Prussian army, Schleiermacher started his formal education in a Moravian school at Niesky in Upper Lusatia, and at Barby near Magdeburg.

Henriette Catharina von Gersdorff

Henrietta Catharina, Baroness von Gersdorff (maiden name von Friesen auf Roetha, October 6, 1648, Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate – March 6, 1726, Grosshennersdorf, Upper Lusatia, Saxony) was a German Baroque religious poet, an advocate of Pietism and also a supporter of the beginnings of the Moravian Church.

Low Lusatian German

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).

Lusatian Lake District

Around the city of Leipzig, a new lake district is starting to develop, and there are other examples, such as the Bärwalder See and Berzdorfer See near the city of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia.

Spree

It runs on the border for a short distance at two points (near Ebersbach and Oppach) before leaving the hills and passing through the old city of Bautzen/Budyšin, the center of the Sorbs in Upper Lusatia.

Valentin Friedland

Friedland was born in Trozendorf near the town of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia, of parents so poor that they could not keep him at school.

Wolfgang Böhmer

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böhmer (born 27 January 1936 in Dürrhennersdorf, Upper Lusatia) is a German politician (CDU) and former Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt from 16 May 2002 to 19 April 2011.


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Karl Gotthelf von Hund

The family of von Hund and Altengrotkau owned their estate from 1607 and from 1704 the estate of Upper Kittlitz in Upper Lusatia.

Königsbrück

First mentioned in 1248 the settlement arose around a fortress in the Bohemian crown land of Upper Lusatia where the Via Regia trade route crossed the border with the Margraviate of Meissen.

Mandau

Afterwards it flows eastwards through another part of Upper Lusatia in which the Lausur joins in Großschönau, from Hainewalde through the Roschertal to Mittelherwigsdorf, where the Landwasser joins, and finally it reaches Zittau where it flows east of the town 747 feet above sea level into the Lusatian Neisse.

Spreelauf

The Spreelauf starts in Spandau (Berlin) and follows the river Spree upstream to one of its three sources in Eibau (Upper Lusatia).