Guben

Guben is a town at the Lusatian Neisse River inside the nation of Brandenburg, Germany. Located in the Spree Neisse district, Guben has a populace of 20,049. Along with Frankfurt and Gorlitz, Guben is a divided city at the border among Germany and Poland, having been separated into Guben and Gubin in 1945 by means of the Oder Neisse line. Guben started out to expand around 1200 as a change and market on the roads among Leipzig and Poznan and among Gorlitz and Frankfurt.

A settlement on the jap shore of the Lusatian Neisse changed into protected by using swamps to the south and by means of the Lubst, a tributary of the Neisse, to the north and the east. Henry III, Margrave of Meissen, granted this settlement Magdeburg rights on June 1, 1235 and had it opium. On the western shore of the river, a cloister of Benedictine nuns commenced developing as an outlying suburb of the metropolis at the eastern shore of the river. In a constitution of 1312 Guben obtained its coat of palms displaying three towers.