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
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig. Saxony is the tenth largest of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of 18,413 square kilometres (7,109 sq mi), and the sixth most populous, with more than 4 million inhabitants.
Henry the Lion (with his wife Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony) being crowned as the Duke of Saxony
Saxony before the Congress of Vienna compared to present day Saxony
Leipzig
Dresden