Cottbus

Cottbus is a university town and the second one largest city in Brandenburg, Germany. Situated round 125 km southeast of Berlin, at the River Spree, Cottbus is likewise a chief railway junction with sizable sidings depots. Although simplest a small Sorbian minority lives in Cottbus itself, the city is considered because the political and cultural middle of the Sorbs in Lower Lusatia. The agreement became set up inside the tenth century, when Sorbs erected a citadel on a sandy island within the River Spree.

The first recorded point out of the metropolis's call became in 1156. In the 13th century German settlers came to the metropolis and thereafter lived facet by side with the Sorbs. In the Middle Ages Cottbus became recognized for wool, and the cities drapery changed into exported for the duration of Brandenburg, Bohemia and Saxony. In 1445 Cottbus turned into obtained by way of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from Bohemia. In 1514 Jan Rak based the Universitas Serb rum, a Sorbian health club, in the metropolis. In 1701 the towns have become part of the Kingdom of Prussia. It becomes additionally ruled via Saxony among 1807 and 1813.