Dora schrieb:
Would some kind soul care to look at the English part for errors?
Here is an improved translation: Description: The landscape on both sides of the Lausitzer Neiße (Görlitz) und the upper Spree, belonging in part to Brandenburg, Lower Silesia, and Saxony, includes mostly the sandy (morains with pinewoods) and swampy (glacial valleys) Lower Lausitz, in the north with weaving industries (Cottbus, Guben, Forst) and brown coal deposits around Senftenberg and Spremberg, also the fruitful Upper Lausitz (agriculture), which passes to the southwest into the Lausitzer Bergland (Zittau), which is bordered by the Lausitzer Gebirge. In the west of the Lausitzer Bergland is the well known Elbsandsteingebirge, also called Sächsische Schweiz. History: The name Lausitz comes from the Slavic tribe Lusici, which since the time of the migration of nations ca. 600 pressed into the Lower Lausitz as did also the Milzenes into the Upper Lausitz. They settled in the formerly eastern homelands of the germanic Hermundures. Heinrich I. and Otto the Great placed both tribes under German dominion. From 1002 to 1031 they were under Polish dominion. After changing hands, the Lower Lausitz (Mark Lausitz) came to the Wettinian Margrave Konrad I. of Meißen. The Upper Lausitz came in 1158 to the Bohemian crown as a fief of the German Empire, and in 1253 as a pledge to the Askanians, Margraves of Brandenburg. With the purchase of the Lower Lausitz in 1303/04, the Askanians united the complete Lausitz region until their line died out in 1319. After that the Luxemburgians purchased the Lausitz by steps, until they could in 1370 make it formally part of the Bohemian crown. In 1620 it became a pledge of the Saxonian prince electorates, which they definitized in 1635 in the Peace of Prague. By the congress of Vienna in 1815, the Lower Lausitz and the northern Upper Lausitz became part of Prussia. Special culture: Who does not know the beautiful folk costumes and colored Easter eggs made of wood? Even today the Lausitz fosters the interesting culture of the Sorbs (Wends), who descend from the former Slavic tribes. They have their own representation of interests and in Saxony are especially numerous around Bautzen. http: //lakoma.tu-cottbus.de/Sorben/ (english, german, sorb) -- =Jim Eggert EggertJ@LL.mit.edu