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Zittau
Sitte | |
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View of Zittau with the Turów Coal Mine Zittau town hall Roland Fountain St John's Church Swan Fountain Samaritan's Fountain Monastery Church | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Zittau within Görlitz district  | |
  Zittau  Zittau | |
| Coordinates: 50°53′46″N 14°48′26″E / 50.89611°N 14.80722°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Saxony |
| District | Görlitz |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2022–29) | Thomas Zenker[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 66.74 km2 (25.77 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 242 m (794 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 24,794 |
| • Density | 370/km2 (960/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 02763 |
| Dialling codes | 03583 |
| Vehicle registration | GR, ZI |
| Website | www.zittau.de |
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Zittau (Upper Sorbian: Žitawa [ˈʒitawa]; Lower Sorbian: Žytawa [ˈʒɨtawa]; Polish: Żytawa; Czech: Žitava; Upper Lusatian dialect: Sitte)[a] is the southeasternmost city in the German state of Saxony, and belongs to the district of Görlitz, Germany's easternmost district.
Zittau is located in Upper Lusatia, the southern part of Lusatia, on the Mandau and Lusatian Neisse rivers, in the foreland of the Zittau Mountains. The city has a population of around 25,000 and is located directly on the western edge of the Turów Coal Mine, one of the largest artificial holes visible from space, on the other side of the Lusatian Neisse.[3]
The inner city of Zittau still shows its original beauty with many houses from several architectural periods: the famous town hall built in an Italian style, the church of St John and the stables (Salzhaus) with its medieval heritage. This multi-storied building is one of the oldest of its kind in Germany.[citation needed] Zittau is the birthplace of the German composer Heinrich Marschner.
Zittau station is an important railway junction, where four railway lines meet: the Zittau–Hagenwerder line to Görlitz, the Liberec–Zittau line to Liberec, the Zittau–Löbau line to Dresden via Oderwitz and to Löbau via Herrnhut, and the Zittau–Kurort Oybin narrow gauge railway line to Oybin and Jonsdorf in the Zittau Mountains.
The Großes Zittauer Fastentuch (Great Zittau Lenten Cloth) is, along with the Bayeux Tapestry, one of the most impressive textile works in Western tradition. It is the third-largest existing Lenten veil. It was made in Zittau in 1472 and is now exhibited in the secularized Kirche zum Heiligen Kreuz, that belongs to the Zittau Municipal Museums, where it is kept in the largest museum display case in the world.[4]
- ^ Gewählte Bürgermeisterinnen und Bürgermeister im Freistaat Sachsen, Stand: 17. Juli 2022, Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen.
- ^ "Einwohnerzahlen nach Gemeinden als Excel-Arbeitsmappe" (XLS) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen. 2024.
- ^ Guinness World Records
- ^ see Guinness World Records
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