Räckelwitz
Encyclopedia
Räckelwitz is a municipality in the district of Bautzen
, in Saxony
, Germany
.
It is located in Upper Lusatia
and belongs to the central settlement area of the Sorbs
. The municipality consists of following villages:
Räckelwitz is the birthplace of the well-known Sorbian author Jurij Brězan
. The prime minister of Saxony, Stanislaw Tillich
, was born in Neudörfel.
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...
, in 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
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
It is located in Upper Lusatia
Upper Lusatia
Upper Lusatia is a region a biggest part of which belongs to Saxony, a small eastern part belongs to Poland, the northern part to Brandenburg. In Saxony, Upper Lusatia comprises roughly the districts of Bautzen and Görlitz , in Brandenburg the southern part of district Oberspreewald-Lausitz...
and belongs to the central settlement area of the Sorbs
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...
. The municipality consists of following villages:
- Dreihäuser (Horni Hajnk), 11 inh.
- Höflein (Wudwor), 135 inh.
- Neudörfel (Nowa Wjeska), 171 inh.
- Räckelwitz (Worklecy), 532 inh.
- Schmeckwitz (Smječkecy), 316 inh.
- Teichhäuser (Haty), 27 inh.
Räckelwitz is the birthplace of the well-known Sorbian author Jurij Brězan
Jurij Brezan
Jurij Brězan was a Sorbian writer. He lived in East Germany.- Life and work :Brězan was born in Räckelwitz near Kamenz. He attended school in Bautzen and then studied political economics. After 1933, he worked illegally for Domowina and was active in a Sorbian resistance group. In 1937-38, he...
. The prime minister of Saxony, Stanislaw Tillich
Stanislaw Tillich
Stanislaw Tillich is a German CDU politician. He is the Minister-President of the Free State of Saxony...
, was born in Neudörfel.