Hoyerswerda
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Hoyerswerda or Wojerecy is a major district town in the district of Bautzen in the German state of Saxony. It is located in the Sorbian settlement area of Upper Lusatia, in which the Upper Sorbian language is spoken in addition to German.
View of the Old Town's Market Square
View at the New Town's Lusatian Square (Lausitzer Platz)
Hoyerswerda Castle in the 18th century
GDR type housing built in the 1950s
Sorbs
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Sorbs are an indigenous West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting the parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg. Sorbs traditionally speak the Sorbian languages, which are closely related to Czech, Polish, Kashubian, Silesian, and Slovak. Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian are officially recognized minority languages in Germany.
The reconstructed Lusatian gord (fortification) of Raduš (Raddusch), near Vetschau, in Lower Lusatia
Sorbian church in Senftenberg (Zły Komorow)
First issue of the Bramborski Serbski Casnik Sorbian newspaper, 1848