Historic cities, extraordinary landscapes, rich traditions, and a fascinating culture are the inexhaustible treasure trove awaiting visitors in Upper Lusatia. The holiday region invites people to come and discover towns and villages with centuries of exciting history, unique sacred treasures as well as hidden green gems.
The World Heritage Site Fürst Pückler Park Bad Muskau, Kromlau Park, and the baroque palace park in Großharthau are popular tourist destinations. Saxony’s most beautiful baroque landscaped gardens in Rammenau provide the right setting for the performance of celebrated artists and renowned events such as, for example, the traditional International Upper Lusatian Linen Days at the end of August.
Active guests will also find numerous opportunities in Upper Lusatia – on foot, by bike, or in and on the water between the Zittau Mountains and the Upper Lusatian Highlands, the Upper Lusatian Land of Heaths and Ponds, Western Lusatia, the Lusatian Neisse River Region as well as the Lusatian Land of Lakes. The partners of “Upper Lusatia by Bike” provide a comprehensive service network of bicycle rentals and tours that may be booked along a superbly built network of bike paths that has an excellent system of sign posts and even provides partial GPS assistance which is unique in all of Germany. It is also possible to hike along the Upper Lusatian Mountain Trail, a popular and prominent hiking trail in the region which ascends to the summits and provides stunning panoramic views of the spectacular countryside, while the luggage is conveniently transported to the next destination.
Discovering Industrial culture and traditional handcrafts.
The numerous sites of Lusatian industrial culture, for example, the mining museum Energiefabrik Knappenrode, historic machine halls, textile factories as well as the Zittau Narrow Gauge Railroad and the Muskau Forest Railway bring industrial history to life and provide a glimpse into the daily work routines of bygone eras.www.lausitzer-industriekultur.de
Along the vacation route “Handwerk erleben” [Experience Handcrafts], it’s possible to still encounter the traditional art of potters, blue dye printers, gingerbread makers, linen weavers, and basket makers in demonstration workshops and traditional craft enterprises; it’s even possible to visit a coco mat factory.
www.handwerk-erleben.com
Groups of children and adolescents will find attractive, pedagogically assisted programs and overnight stays in child and adolescent recuperation centers, school holiday homes, youth hostels as well as with private organizations. The recreational blockbusters of Upper Lusatia provide lots of opportunities for play, fun, thrills, and adventure as well as relaxation and wellness. Endless recreational fun may be found, for example, at the Dinosaur Park in Kleinwelka, the cultural center Kulturinsel Einsiedel, the luge track in Oberoderwitz, the Muskau Forest Railway, or the Schmetterlingshaus [Butterfly House] Jonsdorf in the Zittau Mountains.
www.freizeitknueller.de
Developing a Taste for Upper Lusatia.
It’s possible to truly savor culinary delights anywhere and everywhere in Upper Lusatia. Highly committed restaurant owners have launched the Upper Lusatian Festival of Culinary Delights. Between mid-June and mid-July, scrumptious dishes are created out of local products according to traditional recipes and served in the typical Upper Lusatian ambience at participating inns. Rich in tradition are also the fish ponds, in particular in the Upper Lusatian Land of Heaths and Ponds where Saxony’s only biosphere reserve is located. Every year in autumn during the Lusatian Fish Weeks, the annual fi sh harvest thrills thousands of visitors with its numerous ancillary festivals, tour packages revolving around fi sh and nature as well as hearty meals created from local fi sh.
www.oberlausitz.com/geniessen
www.lausitzer-fischwochen.de
Cultural Experience Upper Lusatia.
Upper Lusatia is a cultural experience with diverse and multifaceted events such as the music festivals and days, light-sound productions, and summer theater performances. Sorbian culture with its customs and traditions is cultivated in the bilingual region located between Bautzen, Kamenz, Hoyerswerda, and Schleife. In Bautzen’s German Sorbian Folk Theatre, Germany’s only bilingual theater, regular performances are staged in German and Sorbian. The Sorbian National Ensemble, which is also at home in Bautzen, holds numerous guest performances on many international stages.
The many historic old town districts, such as in Bautzen and Görlitz, provide a fasci- visitors also get to hear a lot of exciting tales dating, for example, all the way back to the times of the medieval Upper Lusatian Six Cities’ Alliance. Very valuable and unique art historic sites, including many richly decorated baroque patrician homes and fortifi ed towers, are all historic eye witnesses of these eventful times. Relics of the shared history, culture, and intellectual traditions in the cross-border region of Upper Lusatia, Silesia, and Bohemia may be discovered along the Via Sacra – a singular cultural tourist route along sacred sites right in the heart of Europe. Traveling across borders – for contemplation. A section of the Via Sacra follows historic trails. The Via Regia, one of the most important trade and pilgrim routes of the European Middle Ages, winds its way through Upper Lusatia starting in Königsbrück: Past the Upper Lusatian representatives of the Six Cities’ Alliance Kamenz, Bautzen, the European City Görlitz-Zgorzelec, and Lauban (today’s Luban in Poland). Additional cities of this historic alliance include Löbau and Zittau. Here, it is possible to see the unique treasures of ecclesiastic history, the Large Zittau Lenten Veil dating back to 1472 and the Small Zittau Lenten Veil dating back to 1573.
www.oberlausitzer-sechsstaedtebund.de
www.via-sacra.info
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