# Burkau

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{{Infobox German location
|name        = Burkau/Porchow
|image_photo = Burkau Aerial Pan.jpg
|image_caption = Aerial panorama of the village
|image_coa             = Wappen Burkau (Sachsen).svg
|coordinates        = {{coord|51|11|N|14|11|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan = Burkau in BZ.svg
|state         = Sachsen
|district          = Bautzen
|elevation               = 231
|area             = 31.83
|postal_code                = 01906
|area_code            = 035953
|licence                = BZ, BIW, HY, KM
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 14625060
|divisions         = 9 
|website           = [http://www.gemeinde-burkau.de/ www.gemeinde-burkau.de]
|mayor             = Sebastian Hein<ref>[https://wahlen.sachsen.de/buergermeisterwahl-2019-wahlergebnisse.php Wahlergebnisse 2019], Freistaat Sachsen, accessed 10 July 2021.</ref>
|leader_term       = 2019&ndash;26
|party             = CDU
}}

'''Burkau''' ([German](/source/German_language)) or '''Porchow''' ([Upper Sorbian](/source/Upper_Sorbian_language), {{IPA|hsb|ˈpɔʁxɔf|pron}}) is a municipality in the east of [Saxony](/source/Saxony), in the [district of Bautzen](/source/Bautzen_(district)) in [Germany](/source/Germany).

== Geography ==

Burkau is in the northern part of the Bautzen district in a wood rich region in Upper [Lusatia](/source/Lusatia). It is about 6&nbsp;km away – in northern direction – from the city of [Bischofswerda](/source/Bischofswerda) and about 16&nbsp;km – in western direction – from the main city of the district – [Bautzen/Budyšin](/source/Bautzen). The inner German motorway [A4](/source/A4_(Germany)) between [Dresden](/source/Dresden) and [Görlitz](/source/G%C3%B6rlitz) is near the community and has two direct connections with it. The source of the [Klosterwasser/Klóšterska woda](/source/Klosterwasser) is located in the territory of Burkau/Porchow. Nearby in the hills of the western Lusatia there is the source of the [Schwarze Elster](/source/Schwarze_Elster) – one of the most important rivers of this region.

== History ==

In 1164 the village of Burkau has been mentioned for the first time in document – other sources say it happened some hundred years later in 1312 – that is why the real age of it is still not known.

The administrative community that exists today has been formed in 1994 when three formally independent communities decided to unify – those were:
* Burkau/Porchow
* Uhyst am Taucher/Horni Wujězd
* Kleinhänchen/Mały Wosyk

Together with all their smaller communities:
* Auschkowitz/Wučkecy
* Großhänchen/Wulki Wosyk
* Jiedlitz/Jědlica
* Neuhof/Nowy Dwór
* Pannewitz/Panecy
* Taschendorf/Ledźborecy

== Sights ==

The sights of the community are an old manor in Pannewitz, the stone-mill and the "Jiedlitzer Buchholzmühle" in Bocka and the church of Uhyst of the year 1801, now a [road church](/source/road_church) in classic style.

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.gemeinde-burkau.de/ Gemeinde Burkau]
*[http://www.autobahnkirche-uhyst.de Autobahnkirche Uhyst a. T.] (motorway-church Uhyst a. T.)

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