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20-453: The SOEG was founded on 28 July 1994 by the district of Zittau and several neighbouring communities on the Zittau railway. On 15 November 1996 it was given the licence for the narrow gauge line from Zittau to Oybin and Jonsdorf as an official railway operator and railway infrastructure company. On 1 December 1996 responsibility for working the narrow gauge line was finally transferred to

40-673: A Czech Lion and a Silesian Piast Eagle . In 1346 the city became one of the members of the Six-City League of Upper Lusatia . At that time the city was granted a special title—it was called "Die Reiche" ("the Rich") because of its high proportion of well-to-do citizens. In 1359 and 1422 it suffered great fires. In 1469, together with the Lusatian League, the city recognized Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus as rightful ruler, thus passing to Hungary , and after his death in 1490

60-529: A direct link is planned to the nearest motorway between Bautzen and Görlitz . The town is relatively well-connected to Liberec and the rest of the Czech Republic through dual-carriageway 35 just south of the town. Zittau railway station is located north of the town's centre. Passenger services are operated by three railway companies. The first being Vogtlandbahn , which provides a services from Dresden to Zittau and then directly through to Liberec in

80-542: A result of the near-complete destruction of the city during the Seven Years' War , Zittau's then prosperity is reflected today in only a few exceptional buildings and the cemeteries where the well-to-do were buried. One of the most important trading goods of this early age in the 16th century was beer. Later in the 18th and 19th century textiles became important too, a tradition common in the region of Upper Lusatia . In 1813, two Polish military units were established in

100-538: A series of Reichstag Deputies until 1919 when the existing constituencies were scrapped. There are roughly 3,500 students studying at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences and at the independent International Graduate School, Germany's smallest university; it caters to students from nearby Poland and the Czech Republic. The city lacks connections to good infrastructure in Germany, but

120-659: Is a heritage narrow-gauge railway taking passengers from Zittau to the mountain spa resort towns of Oybin and Jonsdorf in the Zittau Mountains . It is operated by the Saxon-Upper Lusatian Railway Company . Zittau is located close to the point where the Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland meet and there are several international border crossings in the vicinity. Permanent immigration and customs controls were, however, removed on 21 December 2007, when all three countries became part of

140-782: Is the birthplace of the German composer Heinrich Marschner . Zittau station is an important railway junction, where four railway lines meet: the Zittau–Hagenwerder line to Görlitz , the Liberec–Zittau line to Liberec , the Zittau–Löbau line to Dresden via Oderwitz and to Löbau via Herrnhut , and the Zittau–Kurort Oybin narrow gauge railway line to Oybin and Jonsdorf in the Zittau Mountains . The Großes Zittauer Fastentuch (Great Zittau Lenten Cloth) is, along with

160-650: Is the southeasternmost city in the German state of Saxony , and belongs to the district of Görlitz , Germany's easternmost district . Zittau is located in Upper Lusatia , the southern part of Lusatia , on the Mandau and Lusatian Neisse rivers, in the foreland of the Zittau Mountains . The city has a population of around 25,000 and is located directly on the western edge of the Turów Coal Mine , one of

180-745: The Bayeux Tapestry , one of the most impressive textile works in Western tradition. It is the third-largest existing Lenten veil . It was made in Zittau in 1472 and is now exhibited in the secularized Kirche zum Heiligen Kreuz , that belongs to the Zittau Municipal Museums, where it is kept in the largest museum display case in the world. Zittau sits on the Mandau River, while the Lusatian Neisse , which forms

200-689: The Schengen Area . Zittau is the only city along the Oder–Neisse line where a number of river bridges remain closed as international crossing-points between Germany and Poland even though both countries are in the Schengen Area. Zittau is twinned with: Zittau Mountains The Zittau Mountains ( German : Zittauer Gebirge , Czech : Žitavské hory ), formerly also called the Lusatian Ridge ( Lausitzer Kamm ), refer to

220-523: The Sudetes ). The climate is cool temperate with cool winters and warm summers with an average annual temperature of 8.6 °C. The annual precipitation total is 883 mm. All twelve months are humid. The climate classification according to Köppen and Geiger is Cfb. The history of the city dates back to a 12th-century Slavic settlement. The area belonged to the Czech (Bohemian) Duchy (and later Kingdom ) from

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240-529: The 11th century. It was first mentioned under the Latinized name Sitavia in 1238. It was granted town rights in 1255 by King Ottokar II of Bohemia , who also built defensive walls. In 1319 it passed to the Piast -ruled Duchy of Jawor of then-fragmented Poland, and after the death of Duke Henry I of Jawor in 1346, it became part of the Czech (Bohemian) Crown again. The city's coat of arms still shows

260-420: The Czech Republic. The second is Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn (ODEG), which links Zittau to Görlitz , with connections to Poland, and Cottbus , where connections to Berlin exist. Zittau is located on the Zittau–Löbau railway which was originally opened in 1848, making it one of the oldest railways in Germany . The Zittau–Kurort Oybin/Kurort Jonsdorf railway with all together four stations within Zittau's limits

280-577: The German part of the Lusatian Mountains that straddle the Saxon - Bohemian border in the extreme southeast of the German state of Saxony . The Zittau Mountains lie in the extreme south of the district of Görlitz in Saxony. A few kilometres north of the range lie a number of settlements; from west to east they are Großschönau , Hainewalde , Olbersdorf , Bertsdorf-Hörnitz and Zittau . In

300-651: The SOEG. From 2002 to 2003 the SOEG had a stake in the Saxon-Bohemian Railway Company with its headquarters in Seifhennersdorf . This German rail transport related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Zittau Zittau ( Upper Sorbian : Žitawa [ˈʒitawa] ; Lower Sorbian : Žytawa [ˈʒɨtawa] ; Polish : Żytawa ; Czech : Žitava ; Upper Lusatian dialect : Sitte )

320-656: The border with Poland , touches the city in the east. The confluence of both rivers is located in the southeast of the city. Further south is a tripoint of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic , and the incorporated village of Hartau lies where the Lusatian Neisse forms the German/Czech border for a short distance. Zittau lies in the Zittau Basin, just north of the Zittau Mountains (part of

340-982: The city returned to the Bohemian Crown, then under the rule of Polish prince Vladislaus II . It remained part of it until 1635 when it passed to the Electorate of Saxony . During the Counter-Reformation , especially following the Battle of White Mountain in 1620, a large number of Protestant refugees from Bohemia came to Zittau, where the Protestant Saxon rulers took them in. Many of them went on to find refuge in surrounding villages, in Dresden, and in Berlin in Brandenburg. Primarily as

360-535: The city, that is the 1st Horse Artillery Company of the Jan Henryk Dąbrowski Division and 2nd Horse Artillery Company of the VIII Corps of Prince Józef Poniatowski . During World War II , a Nazi prison and a labour camp was located in the city. The camp provided forced labour for Phänomen Werke Gustav Hiller, a truck-manufacturing company (which became VEB Kraftfahrzeugwerk Phänomen after

380-418: The largest artificial holes visible from space , on the other side of the Lusatian Neisse. The inner city of Zittau still shows its original beauty with many houses from several architectural periods: the famous town hall built in an Italian style, the church of St John and the stables ( Salzhaus ) with its medieval heritage. This multi-storied building is one of the oldest of its kind in Germany. Zittau

400-830: The war, renamed VEB Robur -Werke Zittau in 1957). The local council has 26 members, the results of the elections in August 2014 are: Following the North German Confederation Treaty the Kingdom of Saxony entered the North German Confederation in 1866. This continued after the founding of the German Empire on 18 January 1871. Following this Saxony participated in Reichstag elections from February 1867. Zittau returned

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