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Weißenberg
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Weißenberg (German, ) or Wóspork (Upper Sorbian, ) is a town in the district of Bautzen, in Saxony, in eastern Germany. The Upper Lusatian town has approximately 3,100 inhabitants and is part of the recognized Sorbian settlement area in Saxony.
Key facts
- German place.name
- Weißenberg/Wóspork
- German place.type
- Stadt
- German place.image_photo
- Wóspork – radnica.jpg
- German place.image_caption
- Main square with town hall
- German place.image_coa
- Wappen Weissenberg (Oberlausitz).png
- German place.image_plan
- Weißenberg in BZ.svg
- German place.state
- Sachsen
- German place.district
- Bautzen
- German place.elevation
- 197
- German place.area
- 50.96
- German place.postal_code
- 02627
- German place.area_code
- 035876
- German place.licence
- BZ, BIW, HY, KM
- German place.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 14625610
- German place.divisions
- 15
- German place.website
- www.stadt-weissenberg.de
- German place.mayor
- Jürgen Arlt
- German place.leader_term
- 2022–29
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Sorbian settlement area
- Demonym
- Wósporčenjo
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Bautzen District
- Population
- 3068
- Area
- 50.96
- Elevation
- 197
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Löbauer Wasser
- Shares border with
- Hohendubrau
- Official website
- www.stadt-weissenberg.de
- Image
- Wóspork – radnica.jpg
- Dialing code
- 035939
- Licence plate code
- BZ
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- postal code
- 02627
- twinned administrative body
- Deckenpfronn
- Commons category
- Weißenberg
- topic's main category
- Category:Weißenberg
- native label
- Weißenberg
- different from
- Q409432
- hashtag
- Weißenberg
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Subdivisions
- History
- Sights
- Education
- Notable people
- In fiction
- Twin towns
- External links
- References
Weißenberg (German, ) or Wóspork (Upper Sorbian, ) is a town in the district of Bautzen, in Saxony, in eastern Germany. The Upper Lusatian town has approximately 3,100 inhabitants and is part of the recognized Sorbian settlement area in Saxony.
== Geography == Weißenberg is located 16 km east of Bautzen/Budyšin in the region of Lusatia. The town borders Malschwitz/Malešecy and Hohendubrau in the north, Vierkirchen and Löbau in the south, and Hochkirch and Kubschütz in the west. It also borders the district of Görlitz. It's near to the border to the Czech Republic and Poland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Weißenberg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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