Market Square in Bautzen

Date made: 2011-08-24


Bautzen (niem. Bautzen, górnołuż. Budyšin, dolnołuż. Budyšyn – district town in Germany, in the eastern part of the State of Saxony, in the administrative district of Dresden, the county seat of Bautzen, Spree River, counts ok. 40 470 residents (2009).
Bautzen is the historical capital of Upper Lusatia and cultural center of the Sorbs. The town has a railway station Bautzen / Budyšin.

Traces of human settlement in the city of Bautzen, the so-called. Lusatian, derived from V-IV century BC. Bautzen was a town founded by the Slavs Polabian of the tribe Milceni. Before y. 1000 Bautzen, on the site of a Slavic settlement gained, Germany established a castle Ortenburg, around which the city was founded later. The first written mention of it dates from 1002 r. Castle played a strategic role during the wars of the Polish-German years 1002-1018. In 1018 r. Bautzen was signed between Boleslaw the Brave room and Emperor Henry II, granting the city Poland, which belonged to Bautzen 1032 r. W l. 1032-76 the town belonged to the Margrave of Meissen, becoming a center of German colonization in Lusatia. The first documented mention of granting the Charter comes from 1240 r.
In 1253 r. the city was connected to the Brandenburg, a w 1319 to the Kingdom of Bohemia. In 1346 r. to combat robbery okolicznemu Bautzen joined forces with other grodami joining the so-called. Association of Upper Lusatian Six Towns (resolved 1815 r.). As a result of the oppression of the urban plebs by the rich patricians in the period 1400 i 1405-1408 occurred in Bautzen to the emergence of artisans, which was bloodily suppressed (executed 14 leaders of the uprising)[2]. The city was besieged by the troops of the Hussites in 1429 r. and again in 1431 r. In 1469 r. Bautzen came under the rule of the Hungarian. The Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus took care of strengthening the fortifications of the castle and because of the close to the border with the Czech Republic and the danger of attack from their side. In 1490 r. Bautzen returned to the Czech rule.
During the Reformation Protestant church was established here in 1524 r., and the local cathedral was turned into a church dwuwyznaniowy. In 1547 r. was to receive town privileges by the emperor. During the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) Bautzen was repeatedly occupied and plundered. The city was also destroyed in the great fire in 1620 i 1634 r. From 1635 r. connected with Lusatia to Saxony. Seriously damaged during two successive fires in 1707 i 1720 r. Renewed growth came from half. In the eighteenth century 1804 r. was in Bautzen Stanislaw Staszic, who noted the presence of the element in the Sorbian[2]. In May 1813 r. Bautzen was Napoleon's army battle the combined forces of the Prussian-Russian, which were defeated by the French. Before the battle in the city slept Emperor Napoleon I.
In 1846 r. saw the opening of the railway line Dresden-Bautzen, and the city entered the era of industrialization. Only in 1868 r. Bautzen was present German name Bautzen (before he was called by the Germans Budissin). In 1904 r. House opened in Serbian, which became the center of Sorbian culture and national traffic. During World War II, the Nazis turned the castle into a prison budziszyński, which held opponents of the system and prisoners of war. In April 1945 r. the city was announced claim. About Bautzen heavy fighting involving m.in. 2 Armii WP. The city was destroyed in the 77%, a Serbian house demolished by the SS. In 1950 r. Bautzen held a congress Sorbs, and sixteen years later, the Lusatian Culture Festival. This tradition was continued in later years; do 1989 r. held in the city of seven festivals Sorbian. East German authorities imprisoned in Bautzen members of the democratic opposition. In 1992 the town had 46 311 residents[3]. Discovered in 1994 r. Asteroids 11580 Bautzen was named in honor of the city.

Quoted from the description http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budziszyn

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Technique:
apparatus: Canon 500D
lens: Falcon 8mm/F:3,5
exposure: 8, 1/50 s, ISO100
type: Spherical panorama
HDR: not
location: Bautzen (Germany)

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