Misplaced Pages

Guttau

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Village of Malschwitz in Saxony, Germany
Guttau
Hućina
Village of Malschwitz
Coat of arms of Guttau HućinaCoat of arms
Location of Guttau
Hućina
Guttau Hućina is located in GermanyGuttau HućinaGuttau
Hućina Show map of GermanyGuttau Hućina is located in SaxonyGuttau HućinaGuttau
Hućina Show map of Saxony
Coordinates: 51°15′N 14°34′E / 51.250°N 14.567°E / 51.250; 14.567
CountryGermany
StateSaxony
DistrictBautzen
MunicipalityMalschwitz
Area
 • Total41.66 km (16.09 sq mi)
Elevation146 m (479 ft)
Population
 • Total1,581
 • Density38/km (98/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes02694
Dialling codes035932
Vehicle registrationBZ
Websitewww.gemeinde-guttau.de
Evangelical Church in Guttau

Guttau (German) or Hućina (Upper Sorbian) is a village in the east of Saxony, Germany. It is part of the municipality of Malschwitz in the district of Bautzen, and lies northeast of the town of Bautzen/Budyšin. The village is part of the bilingual Sorbian settlement area.

It is situated in the Upper Lusatian plain, south of the so-called Lusatian Lake District.

Guttau/Hućina was previously a municipality consisting of nine villages, from 1996 to 2012. That municipality was merged into Malschwitz/Malešecy on 1 January 2013.

Former municipality

From 1996 to 2012, Guttau/Hućina was the name of a municipality (Gemeinde/Gmejny), with nine villages included. Their names are listed below in German and Upper Sorbian.

  • Brösa/Brězyna
  • Guttau/Hućina
  • Halbendorf/Spree / Połpica
  • Kleinsaubernitz/Zubornička
  • Lieske/Lěskej
  • Lömischau/Lemišow
  • Neudorf/Spree / Nowa Wjes/Sprjewja
  • Ruhethal/Wotpočink
  • Wartha/Stróža

Together, the areas of Guttau and Malschwitz formed the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Malschwitz [de] until they merged as one municipality, named Malschwitz/Malešecy, from 2013 onwards.

References

  1. "Gemeinde Malschwitz/Gmejny Malešecy" (PDF). Total-Lokal. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 August 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2024.

External links

Media related to Guttau/Hućina at Wikimedia Commons

Stub icon

This Bautzen location article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: