Radeberg is a small town in the district of Bautzen,

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. It is located approximately 20 kilometres north-east of

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. The town has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, and an old castle.

History

Radeberg was mentioned for the first time in 1219, when farmers settled on the country to the large Roeder. The name of the place is probably derived from this river. In less than 150 years a market place, a castle and own units developed. In the year 1412 the municipal law was lent to the small market town. 500 years ago silver was found close of the town. The discovery site was thereupon renamed as Silver Hill. The mine was however quickly exhausted. A labour camp of the

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was operated in the town under

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. During

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, the Nazis operated a

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camp for men and women in the town. During the final stages of the war, on April 22, 1945, the Polish 1st Armoured Corps captured the town.

Industry

Its principal industries are the manufacture of glass, machinery, furniture and paper, and it produces a light lager " Radeberger Beer" which is largely exported. The company ''Robotron Elektronik Radeberg'', formerly well known in East Germany for the production of portable television sets and powerful data processing equipment, was there. The

Radeberger Brewery Radeberger started in 1872 when the brewery was founded as ''Zum Bergkeller'', in Radeberg, a town in the vicinity of Dresden. Radeberger ranks No. 9 among Beer in Germany#Breweries, Germany's best selling beers. History This beer was also bre ...

was founded in 1872, and is part of the Oetker Group. It brews Radeberger Pilsner,Radeberger Exportbierbrauerei
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pale lager Pale lager is a pale-to- golden lager beer with a well- attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness. In the mid-19th century, Gabriel Sedlmayr took British pale ale brewing and malt making techniques back to the Spaten Bre ...

Transportation

The town is accessible by Radeberg railway station of

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Notable people

(Chronological order) * Johannes Gelbke (1846–1903), German classical composer * Theodor Arldt (1878–1960), German nature scientist, paleontologist, writer, teacher *

Georg Naumann Kurt Georg Naumann (1901–1978) was a German scientist, Trapping, trapper and pioneer of the early local exploration and use of Athabasca oil sands, oil wells and natural gas deposits in the northern catchment area of Athabasca River in Cana ...

(1901–1978), pioneering the exploration of northwest Canada / Alberta, esp. oil sands research * Erhard Fischer (1922–1996), German music and theatre director * Christian Leuckert (1930 - 2011), German botanist and lichenologist * Hartmut Schade (born 1954), football player * Thomas Scheibitz (born 1968), painter and sculptor

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