Luckaitztal (
Lower Sorbian
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''Lukajca Dolk'') is a
municipality
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in the
Oberspreewald-Lausitz
Oberspreewald-Lausitz ( dsb, Wokrejs Górne Błota-Łužyca, hsb, Wokrjes Hornje Błóta-Łužica) is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the southern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Dahme-Spreewald, Spree- ...
district, in
Lower Lusatia
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,
Brandenburg
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Germany
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.
History
From 1815 to 1947, the constituent localities of Luckaitztal (Buchwäldchen, Muckwar, Gosda and Schöllnitz) were part of the
Prussian
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Province of Brandenburg
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.
From 1952 to 1990, they were part of the
Bezirk Cottbus
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History
The district was established, along with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, ''de facto'' replacing the East German ...
of
East Germany
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On 31 March 2002, the municipality of Luckaitztal was formed by merging the municipalities of Buchwäldchen, Muckwar, Gosda and Schöllnitz.
Demography
References
Populated places in Oberspreewald-Lausitz
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