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Country
  
Germany

District
  
Bautzen

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Area
  
62.24 km²

Population
  
6,084 (31 Dec 2008)

Dialling code
  
035725

State
  
Saxony

Elevation
  
127 m (417 ft)

Postal codes
  
02997

Local time
  
Wednesday 12:05 AM

Postal code
  
02997

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Weather
  
9°C, Wind W at 6 km/h, 88% Humidity

Wittichenau (Sorbian Kulow) is a bilingual town in the district of Bautzen in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Schwarze Elster, 6 km south of Hoyerswerda.

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Map of Wittichenau, Germany

This small municipality is situated in the heart of bilingual Lusatia region which was for long centuries part of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Wittichenau has 6,300 inhabitants of whom the Sorbian-speaking, Slavic Lusatian population compose about 35-40%; the other 60-65% speak German.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Georg August Swotlick (1650-1729), translated the Bible into Sorbian and created the first printed Sorbian dictionary.
  • Mathias Wenzel Jäckel (1655-1738), was a prominent baroque sculptor, works can be seen in the Wittichenau Pfarrkirche and on the Karlsbrücke in Prague.
  • Xaver Jakub Ticin (1656-1693), wrote the first Upper Sorbian grammar, died near Belgrade as a chaplain in the Turkish War.
  • Franz Georg Lock (1751-1831), bishop, was a prominent representative of the Catholic Enlightenment in the Upper Lusatia.
  • Herta Nikovich (1923-1994) left 102,000 dollars as a founder of the "Wittichenau children" - Mrs. Nikovich Foundation for the promotion of education, education, youth welfare and youth welfare for all children of the city of Wittichenau.
  • Günter Särchen (1927-2004), Catholic social pedagogue, publicist and pioneer of German-Polish reconciliation, honorary citizen of Wittichenau.
  • Hubertus Zomack (born 1941), Catholic theologian and priest, was Vicar General of the Bishopric of Görlitz.
  • Waltraut Skoddow (1942-2014), writer.
  • Ulrich Pogoda (born 1954), Sorbian composer of classical music.
  • Peter Schowtka (born 1945), politician (CDU), deputy in the Saxonian Landtag 1991-2014 and from 1990 to 1994 mayor of Wittichenau.

    • More information about these people can be found in the German Wikipedia.

    References

    Wittichenau Wikipedia
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