Upper Lusatia
Upper Lusatia is a geographic and historic region that is mostly located in modern-day land of Saxony in Germany. In this guide, it is used to refer to the territory of the Bautzen and Görlitz districts of Saxony, although what is referred to as Upper Lusatia by historians would usually include parts of what is now Dolnośląskie in Poland, as well as lands now belonging to the Czech Republic.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Görlitz and Bautzen.
Görlitz
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Görlitz is Germany's easternmost town. It sits across the Neiße River from its Polish sister city of Zgorzelec. It is very well preserved, and survived the Second World War more or less intact.
Bautzen
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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.
Zittau
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Zittau is the southeasternmost city in the German state of Saxony, and belongs to the district of Görlitz, Germany's easternmost district. Zittau is located in Upper Lusatia, the southern part of Lusatia, on the Mandau and Lusatian Neisse rivers, in the foreland of the Zittau Mountains.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Herrnhut and Bad Muskau.
Herrnhut
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Herrnhut is a small town in the Upper Lusatia region of Saxony, in Germany. In the 18th century, Herrnhut gave birth to the Moravian spiritual renewal and missions movement under Count Nicolaus Ludwig Von Zinzendorf.
Bad Muskau
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Bad Muskau is a spa town in northeastern Saxony, Germany, on the border with Poland. It is known for its palace and extensive landscape gardens that are a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Hoyerswerda
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Hoyerswerda is in Upper Lusatia, Saxony. The town is in the historical area of settlement of the Sorbs, a Slavic linguistic and cultural minority and you can still see aspects of their heritage here, even though the language has been in decline for some time.
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Upper Lusatia
- Type: Region with 780,000 residents
- Description: historical region in Germany and Poland
- Also known as: “Milsko”
- Category: historical region
- Location: Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Upper Lusatia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لوساتيا العليا”
- Bashkir: “Үрге Лужица”
- Belarusian: “Верхняя Лужыца”
- Bosnian: “Gornja Lužica”
- Bulgarian: “Горна Лужица”
- Catalan: “Alta Lusàcia”
- Chinese: “上劳西茨”
- Chinese: “上劳齐兹”
- Chinese: “上勞西茨”
- Chinese: “上勞齊茲”
- Chinese: “上卢萨蒂亚”
- Chinese: “上盧薩蒂亞”
- Croatian: “Gornja Lužica”
- Czech: “Horní Lužice”
- Danish: “Oberlausitz”
- Dutch: “Markgraafschap Opper-Lausitz”
- Dutch: “Opper-Lausitz”
- Esperanto: “Supra Luzacio”
- Estonian: “Ülem-Lausitz”
- French: “Haute Lusace”
- French: “Haute-Lusace”
- German: “Oberlausitz”
- Greek: “Άνω Λουσατία”
- Hebrew: “לוזטיה עילית”
- Hindi: “ऊपरी लुसैटिया”
- Hungarian: “Felső-Lausitz”
- Hungarian: “Oberlausitz”
- Italian: “Alta Lusazia”
- Japanese: “オーバー”
- Japanese: “オーバーラウジッツ”
- Japanese: “オーバーラウズィッツ”
- Japanese: “オーベルラウジッツ”
- Japanese: “上ラウジッツ”
- Latin: “Lusatia superior”
- Latvian: “Augšlauzica”
- Lithuanian: “Aukštutinė Lužica”
- Lower Sorbian: “Górna Łužyca”
- Macedonian: “Горна Лужица”
- Northern Frisian: “Boower Lausitz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oberlausitz”
- Norwegian: “Oberlausitz”
- Persian: “ووژیتسای علیا”
- Polish: “Górne Łużyce”
- Polish: “Łużyce Górne”
- Polish: “Milsko”
- Portuguese: “Alta Lusácia”
- Romanian: “Silezia Luzaciană”
- Romanian: “Silezia Luzațiană”
- Russian: “Верхняя Лужица”
- Serbian: “Горња Лужица”
- Silesian: “Gůrno Łużyca”
- Slovak: “Horná Lužica”
- Slovenian: “Hornja Łužica”
- Slovenian: “Oberlausitz”
- Slovenian: “Zgornja Lužica”
- Spanish: “Alta Lusacia”
- Swedish: “Oberlausitz”
- Turkish: “Oberlausitz”
- Ukrainian: “Верхня Лужиця”
- Upper Sorbian: “Hornja Łužica”
- Venetian: “Alta Luzasia”
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