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2021 September 22, “Far-right AfD campaigns on anti-vax platform in Germany’s Bautzen”, in France 24, retrieved 23 June 2024:
Although this stance is a minority concern amongst the German electorate at large, many voters in the eastern German town of Bautzen are anti-mask – despite the town recording Germany’s highest ever Covid infection rate in December 2020.
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From Middle High GermanBūdessen (and spelling variants), from Old Sorbian. Cognate with Upper SorbianBudyšin, PolishBudziszyn. First attested in a Medieval Latin text as Budusin in 1002. The German form is an entirely regular outcome of the Slavic: Postalveolar -š- was borrowed as retracted Middle High German -s-, and Modern German diphthongisation and syncope then yielded Bautzen.
The further origin is uncertain, but probably Slavic, with suggestions including:
Some sources derive it from the Slavic name of the Ortenburg castle in Bautzen, which is given as Budetzsch, but they do not explain it further. A derivation from Upper Sorbianbuda(“hut”) is highly unlikely as this is a Germanic loanword.
Bautzen legend/folk etymology explains the name by a tale in which a traveling duchess gave birth in present-day Bautzen, during which the rushing husband asked budeli ssen,[1] or perhaps in modern Upper Sorbian budźesyn?(“will it be a son?”).
Die Stadt Bautzen ist die alte Hauptstadt der Oberlausitz.
The city of Bautzen is the old capital of Upper Lusatia.
2024 June 5, Stefan Schmidt, “Schwindende Bevölkerung und steigende Kosten im Landkreis Bautzen [Declining population and rising costs in the district of Bautzen]”, in Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, retrieved 23 June 2024:
Der Landkreis Bautzen ist seit der Kreisgebietsreform 2008 der flächenmäßig größte Landkreis im Freistaat.
Since the district reform in 2008, the district of Bautzen has been the largest in terms of area in the Free State of Saxony.
^ Johann Georg Theodor Gräße: Der Sagenschatz des Königreichs Sachsen, 1855, Nr. 611 „Die Sage von der Entstehung des Namens Budissin“, S. 454f.; 2. Auflage 1874, 2. Band, S. 117 f. (Digitalisat auf Wikisource); Roger Rössing: Bautzen VEB F.A. Brockhaus Verlag Leipzig, 1. Auflage 1989, S. 3–4.
