Finsterwalde
Sign in to saveFinsterwalde (, , ) is a town in the Elbe-Elster district (German: Landkreis), in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_coa
- Wappen Finsterwalde.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Finsterwalde May2015 img2 Rathaus.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Town hall
- German location.image_plan
- Finsterwalde in EE.png
- German location.state
- Brandenburg
- German location.district
- Elbe-Elster
- German location.elevation
- 108
- German location.area
- 77.21
- German location.postal_code
- 03238
- German location.area_code
- 03531
- German location.licence
- EE, FI, LIB
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 12 0 62 140
- German location.divisions
- 3 Stadtteile / 2 Ortsteile
- German location.website
- www.finsterwalde.de
- German location.mayor
- Jörg Gampe
- German location.leader_term
- 2017–25
- German location.party
- CDU
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- Overview
- History
- Demography
- Known persons
- Buildings and Monuments
- Climate
- Notes
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Finsterwalde (, , ) is a town in the Elbe-Elster district (German: Landkreis), in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany.
==Overview== It is situated on the Schackebach, a tributary of the Kleine Elster, 28 m. W.S.W of Cottbus by rail. Pop. (2005) 18,840. The town has a Gothic church (1581), a castle, schools, cloth and cigar factories, iron-foundries, flour and saw mills and factories for machine building. Popular are the "four singers from Finsterwalde" and their "singer-song".