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3 unusual facts about Zittau


Stone cross

They could also be placed by relatives following a fatal accident or - as is recorded in writing in Zittau in 1392 - in gratitude for the charitable foundation of a Kuttenberg citizen for repairing a mountainous border road to the town of Gabel.

Uwe Böning

Uwe Böning (born 1947 in Zittau) is a German business coach, management consultant and author.

Žitava

Zittau, Žitava being the Slavic name of the town in Germany


Alwin Korselt

The Korselts are a huge, widespread family that has been resident in the village of Mittelherwigsdorf near Zittau in Saxony (nowadays close to the Czech and Polish borders) since the early Middle Ages.

Bautzen railway station

In 1950, together with the sheds at Löbau and Zittau, trains were still leaving here hauled by locomotives of classes state railway times, which were 35 to 45 years old.

Bogatynia

The town used to be connected via narrow gauge railway lines opened in 1884 to Zittau and to the Bohemian border, where it was linked with the Frýdlant–Heřmanice Railway in 1900.

Frýdlant–Heřmanice Railway

In 1864, a committee for construction of normal gauge railway line Zittau - Reichenau (Bogatynia) - Frýdlant - Liegnitz (Legnica) was established.

Gustav Merkel

Gustav (Adolf) Merkel (November 12, 1827 in Oberoderwitz, near Zittau – October 30, 1885 in Dresden) was a German organist and composer.

Henry I of Jawor

After 1329 Henry I only retained the Lusatian towns of Lubań, Żytawa, and Przewóz.

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.

Poena cullei

In at least one case in Zittau 1712, a snake from the non-venomous class Colubridae was used.

Porajów

It lies on a railway line and road running from Zittau in Germany to Hrádek nad Nisou village in Liberec district in the Czech Republic; however the trains do not stop on Polish territory.

Saxon X V

The X V was then deployed mainly on the passenger trains from Dresden to Bodenbach, Leipzig and Zittau until its retirement.

Zittau Mountains

A few kilometres north of the range lie a number of settlements; from west to east they are Großschönau, Hainewalde, Olbersdorf, Bertsdorf-Hörnitz and Zittau.


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