Rietschen (, ) is a municipality in the
district of Görlitz,
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 ...
,
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
. It consists of the ''Ortsteile'' (divisions) Rietschen,
Daubitz,
Teicha, Altliebel, Hammerstadt and Neuliebel.
Zahlen, Fakten, Ortsgeschichte
Gemeinde Rietschen, accessed 12 October 2021.
The municipality is part of the recognized 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 ...
in Saxony. 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 ...
has an official status next to German, all villages bear names in both languages.
References
Populated places in Görlitz (district)
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