Guttau (

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) or Hućina (

Upper Sorbian Upper Sorbian (), occasionally referred to as Wendish (), is a minority language spoken by Sorbs in the historical province of Upper Lusatia, today part of Saxony, Germany. It is a West Slavic language, along with Lower Sorbian, Czech, Poli ...

) is a village in the east of

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

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. It is part of the municipality of

Malschwitz Malschwitz (German) or Malešecy (Upper Sorbian) is a municipality in the east of Saxony, Germany. It belongs to the district of Bautzen and lies 6 km northeast of the eponymous city. The municipality is part of the recognized Sorbian sett ...

in the district of Bautzen, and lies northeast of the town of Bautzen/Budyšin. The village is part of the bilingual

Sorbian settlement area The Sorbian settlement area ( , , ; in Brandenburg officially ''Siedlungsgebiet der Sorben/Wenden'') commonly makes reference to the area in the east of Saxony and the South of Brandenburg in which the West Slavs, West Slavic people of the Sorbs ...

. 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

and

. * 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 until they merged as one municipality, named Malschwitz/Malešecy, from 2013 onwards.

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Former municipalities in Saxony Populated places in Bautzen (district) {{Bautzen-geo-stub