Rothenburg, Oberlausitz

Rothenburg/Oberlausitz is a small Lusatian town in eastern Saxony, in eastern Germany, on the Neisse river on the border with Poland. Its Upper Sorbian name is Rózbork and its Polish name is Rozbork, and it lies directly opposite the former village of Prędocice in Poland. The population was 4,405 in 2020. The town was first mentioned in 1268, passed to the Duchy of Jawor in 1319 and to the Bohemian crown in 1329, was ruled by the Electors of Saxony from 1635, and became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815. From 1816 until 1945 it was the seat of the district of Rothenburg in the province of Silesia. On 16 April 1945 it was the site of a battle in which the Polish Second Army defeated the Germans and captured the town, and after the war it formed part of East Germany. Its sights include the Evangelische Stadtkirche of 1798 and Martinshof, a home and complex for people with disabilities founded by Friedrich von Martin in 1883.