Radeberg is a small town in the district of Bautzen,

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. It is located approximately 20 kilometres north-east of

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. The town has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, and an old castle.

History

Radeberg was mentioned for the first time in 1219, when farmers settled on the country to the large Roeder. The name of the place is probably derived from this river. In less than 150 years a market place, a castle and own units developed. In the year 1412 the municipal law was lent to the small market town. 500 years ago silver was found close of the town. The discovery site was thereupon renamed as Silver Hill. The mine was however quickly exhausted.

Industry

Its principal industries are the manufacture of glass, machinery, furniture and paper, and it produces a light lager " Radeberger Beer" which is largely exported. The company ''Robotron Elektronik Radeberg'', formerly well known in East Germany for the production of portable television sets and powerful data processing equipment, was there. The

Radeberger Brewery Radeberger started in 1872 when the brewery was founded as ''Zum Bergkeller'', in Radeberg, a town in the vicinity of Dresden. Radeberger ranks No. 9 among Germany's best selling beers. History This beer was also brewed for a period for the K ...

was founded in 1872, and is part of the

Oetker Group Dr. Oetker () is a German multinational company that produces baking powder, cake mixes, frozen pizza, pudding, cake decoration, cornflakes, party candles, and various other products. The company is a wholly owned branch of the Oetker Gro ...

. It brews Radeberger Pilsner,Radeberger Exportbierbrauerei
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pale lager Pale lager is a very pale-to-golden-colored lager beer with a well- attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness. The brewing process for this beer developed in the mid-19th century, when Gabriel Sedlmayr took pale ale brewing ...

Transportation

The town is accessible by

Radeberg railway station Radeberg (german: Bahnhof Radeberg) is a railway station in the town of Radeberg, Saxony, Germany. The station lies on the Görlitz–Dresden railway, train services are operated by Trilex and DB Regio Südost. Train services The station is serv ...

Deutsche Bahn The (; abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). The Federal Republic of Germany is its single shareholder. describes itself as the se ...

Notable people

(Chronological order) *

Johannes Gelbke Johannes Woldemar Gelbke (19 July 1846 – 1 March 1903) was a German composer, choir lieder, conductor and singer He became known especially in Germany for his song ''Horch! Die alten Eichen rauschen...'' ("Heimkehr"). He also worked as a compose ...

(1846–1903), German classical composer * Theodor Arldt (1878–1960), German nature scientist, paleontologist, writer, teacher *

Georg Naumann Kurt Georg Naumann (1901–1978) was a German scientist, trapper and pioneer of the early local exploration and use of oil wells and natural gas deposits in the northern catchment area of Athabasca River in Canada. Biography Georg Naumann wa ...

(1901–1978), pioneering the exploration of northwest Canada / Alberta, esp. oil sands research *

Erhard Fischer Martin Erhard Fischer (10 November 1922 – 20 December 1996) was a German music and theater director. Career Born in Radeberg, Fischer studied with in Dresden. His directing debut took place in Radebeul with Mozart's ''Die Entführung aus dem S ...

(1922–1996), German music and theatre director *

Christian Leuckert Christian Leuckert was a lichen taxonomist who applied the diversity of secondary metabolites within lichens as useful taxonomic criteria. He was Director of the Institute of Plant Systematics and Plant Geography at the Free University of Berl ...

(1930 - 2011), German botanist and lichenologist *

Hartmut Schade Hartmut Schade (born 13 November 1954 in Radeberg, East Germany) is a German former football player and won the gold medal with the East German Olympic team at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He played for Dynamo Dresden Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo ...

(born 1954), football player *

Thomas Scheibitz Thomas Scheibitz (born 1968 in Radeberg, East Germany) is a German painter and sculptor. Together with Tino Sehgal he created the German pavilion on the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. He lives and works in Berlin. Life and work The son of an East ...

(born 1968), painter and sculptor

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