Königswartha, in Sorbian Rakecy, is a municipality in the east of Saxony

Saxony

The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....

, Germany

Germany

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. It belongs to the district of Bautzen

Bautzen (district)

Bautzen is a district in the Free State of Saxony in Germany including the former districts of Bischofswerda and Kamenz. It is bounded by the Czech Republic, the district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, the district-free city Dresden and the districts of Meißen and Görlitz...

 and lies 20 km north of the eponymous city

Bautzen

Bautzen is a hill-top town in eastern Saxony, Germany, and administrative centre of the eponymous district. It is located on the Spree River. As of 2008, its population is 41,161...

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"Rakecy" means "men of the cancer". The village was mentioned the first time in 1350.

Geography

The municipality is situated in the Upper Lusatian

Lusatia

Lusatia is a historical region in Central Europe. It stretches from the Bóbr and Kwisa rivers in the east to the Elbe valley in the west, today located within the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg as well as in the Lower Silesian and Lubusz voivodeships of western Poland...

 flatland. The village lies in the sorbian

Sorbs

Sorbs are a Western Slavic people of Central Europe living predominantly in Lusatia, a region on the territory of Germany and Poland. In Germany they live in the states of Brandenburg and Saxony. They speak the Sorbian languages - closely related to Polish and Czech - officially recognized and...

 settlement area along the river Schwarzwasser.

Villages

Several villages belong to the municipality:

• Caminau (Kamjenej)
• Commerau (Komorow)
• Entenschenke (Kača Korčma)
• Eutrich (Jitk)
• Johnsdorf (Jeńšecy)
• Königswartha (Rakecy)
• Neudorf (Nowa Wjes)
• Niesendorf (Niža Wjes)
• Oppitz (Psowje)
• Truppen (Trupin)
• Wartha (Stróža)