Kamenz
Sign in to saveKamenz (German, ) or Kamjenc (Upper Sorbian, ) is a town (Große Kreisstadt) in the district of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany. Until 2008 it was the administrative seat of Kamenz District. The town is known as the birthplace of the philosopher and poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Bruno Hauptmann, convicted kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby. It lies north-east of the major city of Dresden.
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Kamenz is a town in eastern Germany (Saxony) that was once the administrative center of its own district until 2008. The town is historically significant as the birthplace of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, an influential philosopher and poet, and Bruno Hauptmann, who was convicted in the famous Lindbergh baby kidnapping case.
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- German location.name
- Kamenz/Kamjenc
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_photo
- Kamenz_city_centre_aerial_view_north.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Old town
- German location.image_coa
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- German location.image_plan
- Kamenz in BZ.svg
- German location.state
- Sachsen
- German location.district
- Bautzen
- German location.elevation
- 173
- German location.area
- 98.3
- German location.postal_code
- 01917, 01920
- German location.area_code
- 03578
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- Geography
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- History
- Politics
- Twin towns — sister cities
- Sights
- Theatre
- Museums
- Buildings
- Events
- Notable people
- References
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Kamenz (German, ) or Kamjenc (Upper Sorbian, ) is a town (Große Kreisstadt) in the district of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany. Until 2008 it was the administrative seat of Kamenz District. The town is known as the birthplace of the philosopher and poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Bruno Hauptmann, convicted kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby. It lies north-east of the major city of Dresden.
==Geography== thumb|left|upright|Lessing Tower This small town is located in the west of the Upper Lusatia historic region (West Lusatia), about northeast of Dresden and about northwest of Bautzen. Situated on the Black Elster river, between the West Lusatian Hills and the Lusatian Highlands rising in the south, the town was built on greywacke and granite rocks which were mined here for centuries. Kamenz railway station is the terminus of Lübbenau–Kamenz and Kamenz–Pirna railway lines. It is served by Regionalbahn trains from Dresden Hauptbahnhof, operated by the Städtebahn Sachsen. The Hutberg hill west of the town centre, at an elevation of , is the site of an extended landscape park laid out in 1893. It is known for its major rhododendron and azalea collections flowering at Pentecost. In 1864 the Lessing Tower was erected on the hilltop, offering a panoramic view over the West Lusatian lands and the Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape in the north. About 32% of the nature in former Kamenz District is under protection, including a network of routes for riding by bicycle and hiking.