Kamenz
Federal state	Saxony
Administrative region	Dresden
District	Kamenz
Population	18,236 source (2005)
Area	53.15 km²
Population density	343/km²
Elevation	173 m
Coordinates	51°16′ N 14°6′ E
Postal code	01917
Area code	03578
Licence plate code	KM
Mayor	Roland Dantz
Website	kamenz.de

Kamenz (Sorbian Kamjenc) is a Lusatian town in eastern Saxony, Germany, with a population of 18,243, and is the capital of the Kamenz district. The town is located about 40 km (25 miles) northeast of Dresden and about 30 km (19 miles) northwest of Bautzen. The philosopher and poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born in Kamenz. Image File history File links Wappen_kamenz. ... Image File history File links Kamenz_sachsen_karte. ... Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (transliterated as Laender in English, singular Land). ... The Free State of Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen; Sorbian: Swobodny Stata Sakska) is at a land area of 18,413 km² and a population of 4. ... A Regierungsbezirk is an administrative region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (Bundesländer). ... Dresden is one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Saxony, Germany, located in the south-east of the country. ... There are 439 German districts, administrative units in Germany. ... Kamenz (Lusatian: Kamjenc) is a Kreis (district) in the north-east of Saxony, Germany. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... See Cartesian coordinate system or Coordinates (elementary mathematics) for a more elementary introduction to this topic. ... German Postleitzahl map of the first two digits Postal codes in Germany, known as Postleitzahl (pl. ... see also Telephone numbering plan of Germany for further codes including service numbers, cell phones etc. ... German car number plates show the place where the car carrying them is registered. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... The Sorbian languages (serbšćina) are members of the West Slavic branch of languages spoken in eastern Germany. ... Lusatia (German Lausitz, Upper Sorbian Łužica, Lower Sorbian Łužyca, Polish Łużyce, Czech Lužice, sometimes called Sorbia, is a historical region between Bóbr-Kwisa rivers and Elbe river in northeastern Germany (states of Saxony and Brandenburg), south-western Poland (voivodship of Lower Silesia and northern Czech... The Free State of Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen; Sorbian: Swobodny Stata Sakska) is at a land area of 18,413 km² and a population of 4. ... Kamenz (Lusatian: Kamjenc) is a Kreis (district) in the north-east of Saxony, Germany. ... From left to right: Brühls Terrace; the Hofkirche and the castle; the Semper Opera House. ... Bautzen (pronounced , listen, until 1868: Budissin; Upper Sorbian: Budyšin; Lower Sorbian: Budyšyn; , listen; Polish: Budziszyn; Czech: Budyšín) is a city in eastern Saxony, Germany, and capital of the eponymous district. ... Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (January 22, 1729 – February 15, 1781), writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic, is the most outstanding German representative of the Enlightenment era. ...

History

At the location of today's old town a castle has been build to secure the crossing of route Via Regia and river Schwarze Elster at the end of the 12th century. The Via Regia was an important trade route between Belgium and Silesia. In 1225 the town was mentioned the first time and in 1319 it became independent. The Oberlausitzer Sechsstädtebund (upper lusatian town alliance) has been founded by Kamenz and five other lusatian towns for protection against robber barons in 1346. In 1707 a fire destroyed large parts of the old town. The philosopher and poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born in Kamenz in 1729. Schwarze Elster is a 188 km long river in eastern Germany, in the states Saxony, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt. ... (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... Prussian Silesia, 1871, outlined in yellow; Silesia at the close of the Seven Years War in 1763, outlined in cyan (areas now in Czech Republic were Austrian-ruled at that time) Silesia (-Latin, Polish: ÅšlÄ…sk, German: Schlesien, Czech: Slezsko) is a historical region in central Europe. ... Events Births Thomas Aquinas, Christian philosopher and theologian (d. ... Events Magnus VII ascends the throne of Norway and unites the country with Sweden. ... // Events Serbian Empire was proclaimed in Skopje by Dusan Silni, occupying much of the South-Eastern Europe Foundation of the University of Valladolid Foundation of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge August 26 Battle of Crecy after which Edward the Black Prince honored the bravery of John I, Count of Luxemburg... Events January 1 - John V is crowned King of Portugal March 26 - The Act of Union becomes law, making the separate Kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country, the Kingdom of Great Britain. ... Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (January 22, 1729 – February 15, 1781), writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic, is the most outstanding German representative of the Enlightenment era. ... Events July 30 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded. ...

Sights and Culture

View over city centre of Kamenz.

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Theater

• Stadttheater (City theater)
• Hutbergbühne Kamenz (an open-air stage for up to 10,000 visitors)

Museums

• Museum der Westlausitz (Museum of Western Lusatia)
• Lessingmuseum (Museum of Lessing)

Buildings

• Town hall of Kamenz (build 1848 to 1849, italien Neorenaissance)
• Andreasbrunnen (Andreas Fountain), on the market square
• Red Tower, Mönchsmauer (monk wall), Pichschuppen (parts of the mediaeval town battlement)
• protestant main church St. Marien (build 1275 - 1479, late gothic architecture)
• minster St. Annen (1499)
• catechism church (1358)
• Lessing memorial (place where birth house of Lessing was situated)
• Lessing-Haus

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Nature

• Hutberg (294 m) - mountain with park, with Rhododendron
• about 32% of the nature of the District is under protection
• there is a good network of routes for riding by bicycle and hiking

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Events

• Blütenlauf auf dem Hutberg (Run on the Hutberg)
• Lessing Days (every year, January and February)
• Fete de la Musique every year on June, 21st
• Forstfest (Forest Festival), every year in the week of August, 24th (St Bartholomew's Day)
• Kamenzer Nasenfest (Nose Festival), Festival with the so called nose market every year on October, 3rd
• carnival

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References

• Kamenz (Saxony), in: Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, 1911

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External links

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