Wittichenau

Wittichenau
Coat of arms
Wittichenau
Location of Wittichenau within Bautzen district
Coordinates: 51°23′N 14°15′E / 51.383°N 14.250°ECoordinates: 51°23′N 14°15′E / 51.383°N 14.250°E
Country	Germany
State	Saxony
District	Bautzen
Government
• Mayor	Udo Popella (CDU)
Area
• Total	62.24 km^2 (24.03 sq mi)
Population (2014-12-31)[1]
• Total	5,826
• Density	94/km^2 (240/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	02997
Dialling codes	035725
Vehicle registration	BZ
Website	www.wittichenau.de/stadt

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.

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.

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  Pfarrkirche Wittichenau

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  Protestant church in Wittichenau

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  Saxon post milestone

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  Column for the title character of Krabat

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  School in Wittichenau

Wittichenau is the birthplace of the following:

• Georg August Swotlick / Jurij Hawštyn Swětlik (translated the Bible into Sorbish)
• Matthias Wenzel Jäckel/Maćij Wjacław Jakula
• Xavier Jakub Ticin (creator of Upper Sorbian grammar)
• Ulrich Pogoda (Sorbian musician and composer)
• Günther Särchen (Roman Catholic social pedagogue)

References

1. "Aktuelle Einwohnerzahlen nach Gemeinden 2014] (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011)" (PDF). Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen (in German). 7 September 2015.