Lindenau is a municipality

Municipalities of Germany

Municipalities are the lowest level of territorial division in Germany. This may be the fourth level of territorial division in Germany, apart from those states which include Regierungsbezirke , where municipalities then become the fifth level.-Overview:With more than 3,400,000 inhabitants, the...

 in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz

Oberspreewald-Lausitz

Oberspreewald-Lausitz is a Kreis in the southern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Dahme-Spreewald, Spree-Neiße, the districts Kamenz and Riesa-Großenhain in Saxony, and the district Elbe-Elster....

 district, in southern Brandenburg

Brandenburg

Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...

, Germany

Germany

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. Since 1992, it is part of the Amt (municipal confederation) of Ortrand

Ortrand (Amt)

Ortrand is an Amt in the district of Oberspreewald-Lausitz, in Brandenburg, Germany. Its seat is in Ortrand.The Amt Ortrand consists of the following municipalities:#Frauendorf#Großkmehlen#Kroppen#Lindenau#Ortrand#Tettau...

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Lindenau, located between the rivers Pulsnitz

Pulsnitz (river)

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 and Schwarze Elster

Schwarze Elster

The Black Elster or Schwarze Elster is a 179 km long river in eastern Germany, in the states Saxony, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt, right tributary of the Elbe. Its source is in the Upper Lusatia region, near Elstra....

, is the westernmost village of the historic Upper Lusatia

Upper Lusatia

Upper Lusatia is a region a biggest part of which belongs to Saxony, a small eastern part belongs to Poland, the northern part to Brandenburg. In Saxony, Upper Lusatia comprises roughly the districts of Bautzen and Görlitz , in Brandenburg the southern part of district Oberspreewald-Lausitz...

 region. The Reihendorf

Reihendorf

The Reihendorf is a particular form of German settlement characterized by rows of houses situated along a street, riverbank, valley, or creek. The Reihendorf generally does not feature common lands, and can be one-rowed or two-rowed....

arose about 1200 during the reign of King Ottokar I of Bohemia

Ottokar I of Bohemia

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 in the course of the German Ostsiedlung

Ostsiedlung

Ostsiedlung , also called German eastward expansion, was the medieval eastward migration and settlement of Germans from modern day western and central Germany into less-populated regions and countries of eastern Central Europe and Eastern Europe. The affected area roughly stretched from Slovenia...

in the former Milceni

Milceni

The Milceni or Milzeni were a West Slavic tribe, who settled in the present-day Upper Lusatia region. They were first mentioned in the middle of the 9th century AD by the Bavarian Geographer, who wrote of 30 civitates which possibly had fortifications. They were gradually conquered by Germans...

 lands, when a motte-and-bailey

Motte-and-bailey

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 castle was erected on the border with the Margraviate of Meissen, vis-à-vis the fortress of Großkmehlen

Großkmehlen

Großkmehlen is a municipality in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, in southern Brandenburg, Germany.-References:...

. The settlement of Lindenaw was first mentioned in 1342 deed.

Held by the Electorate of Saxony

Electorate of Saxony

The Electorate of Saxony , sometimes referred to as Upper Saxony, was a State of the Holy Roman Empire. It was established when Emperor Charles IV raised the Ascanian duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg to the status of an Electorate by the Golden Bull of 1356...

 since the 1635 Peace of Prague

Peace of Prague (1635)

The Peace of Prague of 30 May 1635 was a treaty between the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand II and the Electorate of Saxony representing most of the Protestant states of the Holy Roman Empire...

, Lindenau with northeastern Upper Lusatia passed to the Kingdom of Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

 according to the Final Act of the 1815 Vienna Congress

Congress of Vienna

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. It was administrated within the Silesia Province (Lower Silesia Province from 1919), again the westernmost village of the province. From 1952 until 1990, it was part of the East German Bezirk of Cottbus

Cottbus (Bezirk)

The Bezirk Cottbus was a district of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Cottbus.-History:The district was established, with the other 13, on July 25, 1952, substituting the old German states...

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