Welcome

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The „Grosse Kreisstadt“ (Large district town) is situated right in the middle of the Upper Lusatia („Oberlausitz“) – it’s tucked away between the „Spreewald“ and the Lusatia mountains („Lausitzer Gebirge“). It is a marvellous part of Germany with its heath and pond landscape, the ending in mountainous country and the picturesque and beautiful valleys.

Because of our geographic situation, close to the German - Polish borderline, we have been maintaining intensive relations for years with our twin town Zary (Sorau), just 40 kms away from here.

The city is marked by an old tradition of glass industry, by brown coal mining and the power station in Boxberg where the brown coal will be converted into electricity.

As we are a quite young and lively city, sports plays an important part as well.

The residents of our city can do more than 36 different sports in their leisure time. There are world champions, European champions and German champions among them. A prominent draw for traditional reasons is ice sports. Particularly the successful ice hockey teams - boys, pupil, youth and junior team as well as the pro field are known in the whole federal republic.

On the following pages we compiled a lot of current and interesting facts for you.
Go and see yourself and get to know us as a visitor, an investor or a future inhabitant.
We are looking forward to your visit.

Yours
Hartwig Rauh
Lord Mayor