Place:Pulsnitz, Bautzen, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany

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NamePulsnitz
Alt namesPulsnitz
Pulsnitz (Stadt)source: FHLC
Pfefferkuchenstadtsource: wikipedia
TypeAmtsgericht/Town
Coordinates51.183333°N 14.016667°E
Located inBautzen, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Pulsnitz
Unknown
Weißbach
source: Family History Library Catalog
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Pulsnitz is a town in the district of Bautzen, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the small river Pulsnitz, 11 km southwest of Kamenz, and 24 km northeast of the centre of Dresden.

Pulsnitz became famous for its Pfefferkuchen, a type of Christmas cookie, when in 1558 the bakers of Pulsnitz received permission to bake them. Today there are still eight Pfefferküchlereien bakeries. In 1745 the Pfefferküchler Tobias Thomas was known to be practising his craft in Pulsnitz as well as in Thorn, Prussia now Toruń, Poland, where the famous Thorner Kathrinchen were made. Pulsnitz is informally known as Pfefferkuchenstadt meaning "Gingerbread Town".

The first Protestant missionary to arrive in India, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg was born in Pulsnitz on July 10, 1682. The town Pulsnitz absorbed the former municipality Friedersdorf in 1994, and Oberlichtenau in 2009.

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