Bautzen
Bautzen is an old city in Saxony, Germany. It is a well preserved medieval city and the cultural center of the Sorbian community in Germany.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 38,200 residents
- Description: town in Saxony, Germany
- Also known as: “Bautzen - Budyšin”, “Budissin”, and “Budyšin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sorbian Museum and Cathedral of St Peter.
Sorbian Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Sorbian Museum, Upper Sorbian: Serbski muzej, German: Sorbisches Museum, is hosted in the salthouse of the Ortenburg, Bautzen. It houses approximately 35,000 inventarized objects, making it the most important museum of Sorbian culture and history.
Cathedral of St Peter
Church
Photo: Stephanhoehne, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Peter's Cathedral is an interdenominational church in Bautzen, Germany. It is among the oldest and largest simultaneum churches in Germany. Located in the heart of the city's "Old Town", the church and the square it is situated within is a major tourist attraction.
Serbski dom
Public building
Photo: J budissin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Serbski dom is an administrative building on Postplatz 2 in Bautzen, Saxony, Germany. It is the cultural and political center of the Sorbian people.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bautzen-Gesundbrunnen and Stiebitz/Sćijecy.
Bautzen
- Categories: Greater district town, urban municipality in Germany, district capital, and locality
- Location: Bautzen, Upper Lusatia, Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.1809° or 51° 10′ 51″ northLongitude
14.4276° or 14° 25′ 39″ eastPopulation
38,200Elevation
213 metres (699 feet)United Nations Location Code
DE BAUOpen location code
9F3P5CJH+92OpenStreetMap ID
node 30361883OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bautzen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bautzen”
- Albanian: “Bautzen”
- Arabic: “باوتسن”
- Arabic: “بوتسن”
- Arabic: “بَوتسن”
- Aragonese: “Bautzen”
- Armenian: “Բաուտցեն”
- Azerbaijani: “Bautzen”
- Basque: “Bautzen”
- Belarusian: “Баўтцэн”
- Bosnian: “Budišin”
- Breton: “Bautzen”
- Bulgarian: “Бауцен”
- Catalan: “Bautzen”
- Cebuano: “Bautzen”
- Chechen: “Баутцен”
- Chinese: “包岑”
- Croatian: “Bautzen”
- Croatian: “Budišin”
- Czech: “Bautzen”
- Czech: “Budusin”
- Czech: “Budyšín”
- Danish: “Bautzen”
- Dutch: “Bautzen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باوتسن”
- Esperanto: “Bautzen”
- Estonian: “Bautzen”
- Finnish: “Bautzen”
- French: “Bautzen”
- Galician: “Bautzen”
- German: “Bautzen”
- German: “Budissin”
- German: “Budyšin”
- Greek: “Μπάουτσεν”
- Hakka Chinese: “Bautzen”
- Hebrew: “באוצן”
- Hungarian: “Bautzen”
- Ido: “Bautzen”
- Indonesian: “Bautzen”
- Interlingue: “Bautzen”
- Irish: “Bautzen”
- Italian: “Bautzen”
- Japanese: “バウツェン”
- Kazakh: “Баутцен”
- Kirghiz: “Баутцен”
- Korean: “바우첸”
- Kurdish: “Bautzen”
- Ladin: “Bautzen”
- Latin: “Budissa”
- Latvian: “Baucene”
- Lithuanian: “Baucenas”
- Lombard: “Bautzen”
- Low German: “Bautzen”
- Lower Sorbian: “Budyšyn”
- Macedonian: “Бауцен”
- Malagasy: “Bautzen”
- Malay: “Bautzen”
- Northern Frisian: “Bautzen (Stää)”
- Northern Frisian: “Bautzen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bautzen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bautzen”
- Norwegian: “Bautzen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bodissin”
- Ossetian: “Баутцен”
- Persian: “باوتسن”
- Persian: “بواتزن”
- Persian: “بوتسن”
- Polish: “Budziszyn”
- Portuguese: “Bautzen”
- Romanian: “Bautzen”
- Russian: “Баутцен”
- Scots: “Bautzen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bautzen”
- Serbian: “Baucen”
- Serbian: “Budišin”
- Serbian: “Бауцен”
- Serbian: “Будишин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bautzen”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Budišin”
- Slovak: “Budyšín”
- Slovenian: “Budišin”
- Slovenian: “Budyšin”
- Spanish: “Bautzen”
- Swedish: “Bautzen”
- Tatar: “Баутцен”
- Thai: “เบาท์เซิน”
- Tumbuka: “Bautzen”
- Turkish: “Bautzen”
- Ukrainian: “Бауцен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Budešin”
- Upper Sorbian: “Budyšin”
- Uzbek: “Bautzen”
- Vietnamese: “Bautzen”
- Volapük: “Bautzen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bautzen”
- Welsh: “Bautzen”
- Western Panjabi: “باؤتزن”
- Wu Chinese: “包岑”
- Yue Chinese: “包岑”
- “Bautzen”
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