Weisswasser

Weisswasser is a large district city in the northeast of Saxony and the 3rd biggest metropolis in the district of Gorlitz and the 8th biggest in Upper Lusatia. The metropolis is placed in a lignite rich heathland between the Lusatian Lakeland and the German Polish border. After his upward thrust from rural Heide village to an industrial city, Weisswasser is currently experiencing social trade. Within a period of forty years 1970 to 2010, the population multiplied from 19,000 to over 38,000 and dropped returned to 19,000, considering that then, the number continued to decline. On June 8, 1552 Weisswasser became first referred to inside the ownership of the kingdom Muskau.

The first cartographic survey of Weisswasser in a map of Upper Lusatia dates back to 1593. The original village of Weisswasser was positioned in the western a part of state of the art metropolis, as an instance on August Bebel Strasse. This region of the city is nowadays called the Old Village. In 1772 the first faculty became founded in Weisswasser and in 1817 the primary licensed instructor got here to Weisswasser. In 1860 lignite mining started out. At across the equal time, the first brick manufacturing facility turned into constructed. From 1815 to 1945 Weisswasser belonged to Silesia.