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UPPER LUSATIA | |
A SPECIAL BUSINESS LOCATION
Upper Lusatia is a traditional industrial and commercial location with the advantage of economic networks and infrastructural connections to Dresden and Liberec/Mlada Boleslav. This development
is sustained by many solid small and medium-sized (SME) businesses in growing economic sectors. They are well organized and positioned to compete on a national and international level.
The backbone of Upper Lusatia is strong economic industries: machine building, metal processing, textile industry, plastics, food and beverages, and renewable resources. The expansion of the automotive industry in Upper Lusatia has turned into one of the major industrial locations in this sector. It has become the most complete automotive region in Saxony: Railway technology, automotive and supplying industry, agricultural machine building and bicycle industry. | ||
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HOLIDAYS IN THE THREE COUNTRY BORDER TRIANGLE In the middle of beautiful eclectic landscapes you can enjoy hiking, bicycling or water sports activities, or simply relax and kick back. Villages and historical sites offer cultural attractions and make you discover old traditions, trade and history. Sorbian and German customs and festivals influence life in Upper Lusatia. Leisure activities are inviting families, children and youth groups to get to know the region and to discover our neighbor countries, Poland and the Czech Republic. 
The members of the Six-City-Union in Upper Lusatia, Bautzen, Kamenz, Löbau, Zittau, Görlitz and
Lauban in Poland are lively cities, rich in history. Guided city tours, cultural activities, theatre and
concerts, stylish restaurants in the middle of ancient towns, are among the tourist attractions.
In Upper Lusatia there are more than 8000 km of hiking and bicycling trails that are ideal for outdoor activities. "Upper Lusatia by bicycle" and "Upper Lusatian Hiking Hotel" stand for high quality service for tourists and visitors. 
There are many lakes, pools and ponds for all types of water sports - swimming, sailing, surfing - in the Upper Lusatian lake land. Romantic parks and beautiful gardens like Prince Pückler Park in Bad Muskau, a World
Heritage Site, the magnificent baroque garden in Ramenau and the rhododendron park in Kramlau are waiting for you.The information centre "Living Trade" at the Baroque Palace Rammenau shows our guests what traditional handicraft in historically conserved huts set in beautiful landscapes is all about: In workshops and studios of local potters, weavers, basket makers and gingerbread makers you can learn all about the history of these products and how they are made. If you wish, you can be creative and try by yourself. Another attraction is the yearly Fishing Festival, a traditional happening in Upper Lusatia. Guided tours through the pond land, culinary delights made of carp and other local fish in selected restaurants are part of the festivities. For informations: www.oberlausitz.com | ||
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| Welcome to Saxony - Germany's most dynamic federal state
There's a lot we could write about Saxony here. But let us turn to other sources for an assessment. It has recently been established that Saxony is the most dynamic federal state in Germany. In the 2004 ranking of
the 16 federal states (Bundesländer), the New Social Market Economy Initiative (INSM) and the business journal
'WirtschaftsWoche' found that Saxony had made the greatest economic progress.
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Saxony tops the table ahead of Lower Saxony and Rhineland-Palatinate. Good marks for prosperity, structure and location brought the Free State forward from 6th position in 2003. "The highest rate of economic growth,
the second highest rate of investment and the lowest debt increase make Saxony a shooting star among the German federal states,"
says the managing director of the New Social Market Economy Initiative, Tasso Enzweiler, in response to this result. The deputy chief editor of
'WirtschaftsWoche', Klaus Methfessel, praises the extraordinary achievement of the people of Saxony: "The Free State has taken up the challenge
of federal competition and has succeeded in spite of the difficult conditions in eastern Germany." The development of all the Länder was recorded from 2001 to 2003. The analysis,
which was carried out by a research team led by the Institute of the German Economy in Cologne (Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Consult GmbH),
was based on 30 economic and locationally relevant indicators - from economic power to education spending. | ||