Königswartha
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Königswartha, in Sorbian Rakecy (), is a municipality in the east of Saxony, Germany. It belongs to the district of Bautzen and lies 20 km north of the eponymous city.
Key facts
- German location.name
- Königswartha
- German location.German_name
- Rakecy
- German location.image_photo
- Grenzsteine Am Marktplatz Königswartha.JPG
- German location.image_coa
- Koenigswartha_Wappen.PNG
- German location.image_plan
- Königswartha in BZ.svg
- German location.state
- Sachsen
- German location.district
- Bautzen
- German location.elevation
- 141
- German location.area
- 47.04
- German location.postal_code
- 02699
- German location.area_code
- 035931
- German location.licence
- BZ, BIW, HY, KM
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 14625280
- German location.website
- www.koenigswartha.net
- German location.mayor
- Swen Nowotny
- German location.leader_term
- 2022–29
- German location.party
- CDU
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Villages
- Twin towns – sister cities
- References
Königswartha, in Sorbian Rakecy (), is a municipality in the east of Saxony, Germany. It belongs to the district of Bautzen and lies 20 km north of the eponymous city.
The municipality is part of the recognized Sorbian settlement area in Saxony. Upper Sorbian has an official status next to German, all villages bear names in both languages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Königswartha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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