Kamenz

Kamenz ; Upper Sorbian: Kamjenc) is a town in the district of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany. Until 2008 it was the administrative seat of Kamenz District. The town is known as the birthplace of the philosopher and poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and the criminal, Bruno Hauptmann. It lies north-east of the major city of Dresden.

This small town is located in the west of the Upper Lusatia historic region , about 40 km northeast of Dresden and about 30 km northwest of Bautzen. Situated on the Black Elster river, between the West Lusatian Hills and the Lusatian Highlands rising in the south, the town was built on greywacke and granite rocks which were mined here for centuries. Kamenz railway station is the terminus of Lübbenau–Kamenz and Kamenz–Pirna railway lines. It is served by Regionalbahn trains from Dresden Hauptbahnhof, operated by the Städtebahn Sachsen.

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