Wittichenau

Infobox Ort in Deutschland
name = Wittichenau
Kulow
Art = Stadt
image_photo =
Wappen = Wappen wittichenau.pngWappengröße = 100
lat_deg = 51 |lat_min = 23 |lat_sec = 0
lon_deg = 14 |lon_min = 15 |lon_sec = 0
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Sachsen
Regierungsbezirk = Dresden
Landkreis = Bautzen
Höhe = 127
Fläche = 62.24
Einwohner = 6168
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 02997
Vorwahl = 035725
Kfz = BZ
Gemeindeschlüssel = 14 2 92 600
LOCODE = DE WTU
Gliederung = 12
Straße = Markt 1
Adresse-Verband = Markt 1
Website = [http://www.wittichenau.de/stadt/ www.wittichenau.de/stadt]
Bürgermeister = Udo Popella
Partei = CDU

Wittichenau (Sorbian Kulow) is a bilingual town in the district of Bautzen in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Schwarze Elster, 6 km south of Hoyerswerda.

This small municipality is situated in the heart of bilingual Lusatia region which was for long centuries part of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Wittichenau has 6,300 inhabitants of whom the Sorbian-speaking, Slavic Lusatian population compose about 35-40%; the other 60-65% speak German.

Wittichenau is the birthplace of the following:
*Georg August Swotlick / Jiří Awgust Swotlik (translated the Bible into Sorbish)
*Matthias Wenzel Jaeckel
*Xavier Jakub Ticin (creator of Upper Sorbian grammar)
*Ulrich Pogoda (Sorbian musician and composer)
*Günther Särchen (Roman Catholic social pedagogue)