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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.
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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Key facts
- 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
- Wappen_kamenz.PNG
- 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
- German location.licence
- BZ, BIW, HY, KM
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 14625250
- German location.website
- www.kamenz.de
- German location.mayor
- Roland Dantz
- German location.leader_term
- 2018–2025
- German location.party
- Independent
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Official website
Willkommen - Willkommen in der Lessingstadt Kamenz
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Sorbian settlement area
- Demonym
- Kamjenčenjo
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Bautzen District
- Population
- 16861
- Area
- 53.25
- Elevation
- 171
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Black Elster
- Shares border with
- Bernsdorf
- Official website
- www.kamenz.de
- Image
- Kamenz city centre aerial view north.jpg
- Dialing code
- 03578
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- category for people born here
- Q18335794
- twinned administrative body
- Karpacz
- Commons category
- Kamenz
- topic's main category
- Category:Kamenz
- postal code
- 01917
- native label
- Kamjenc
- short name
- Kam
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kamenz
- member of
- Mayors for Peace
- different from
- Kamenz
- hashtag
- Kamenz
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