Kamenz

Kamenz in the district of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany. Until 2008 it was the managerial seat of Kamenz District. The town is known as the origin of the logician and writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing additionally Bruno Richard Hauptmann. It lies north-east of the real city of Dresden. The community is situated in the west of the Upper Lusatia notable locale West Lusatia, around 40 km upper east of Dresden and around 30 km northwest of Bautzen. Arranged on the Black Elster waterway, between the West Lusatian Hills and the Lusatian Highlands ascending in the south, the town was based on greywacke and stone rocks which were dug here for quite a long time. Kamenz railroad station is the end of Lubbenau-Kamenz and Kamenz-Pirna railroad lines. It is served by Regionalbahn trains from Dresden Hauptbahnhof, worked by the Stadtebahn Sachsen.

The settlement emerged in the late 12^th century, when a post was raised at the area of the present old town, so as to verify the intersection of the medieval Via Regia exchange course with the Black Elster waterway. From here, the Via Regia offered significant transport joins from the Low Countries up to Silesia. After the war, the town turned out to be a piece of the Soviet occupation zone and East Germany. Until 1990, an officer hopeful school of the East German Air Force Staff Offiziershochschule Franz Mehring was situated at the Kamenz Airfield. The previous region Schonteichen was converged into Kamenz in January 2019.