What is Bautzen?
{{Infobox German location |name = Bautzen | German_name = Bautzen/Budyšin |type = Stadt |image_photo = City Bautzen Germany 104.JPG |image_coa = Wappen Bautzen.png |state = Sachsen |district = Bautzen |coordinates = {{coord|51|10|53|N|14|25|27|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Bautzen in BZ.svg |elevation = 204 |area = 66.62 |population = 39743 |Stand = 2012-12-31 |postal_code = 02625 |area_code = 03591 |licence = BZ, BIW, HY, KM |Gemeindeschlüssel = 14625020 |divisions = 15 |website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20041129020013/http://www.bautzen.de/ www.bautzen.de] |mayor = Alexander Ahrens |party = none }} '''Bautzen''' ({{Audio-IPA|De-Bautzen.ogg|[ˈbautsn̩]}}, {{lang-hsb|Budyšin}}, {{lang-dsb|Budyšyn}} {{IPA|[ˈbudɨʃɨn]}}; {{lang-pl|Budziszyn}}) is a [[city]] in eastern [[Free State of Saxony|Saxony]], [[Germany]], and [[Capital (city)|capital]] of the [[Bautzen Rural District]].<ref>KRELL, Detlef. Oberlausitz, Lausitzer Seenland. 3. vyd. Bielefeld: Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump GmbH, 2017. 396 s. ISBN 978-3-8317-2920-3. Kapitola Bautzen – Hauptstadt der Oberlausitz, s. 39. (německy)</ref> It is on the [[Spree]] River. In 2005, 42,189 people lived in Bautzen. [[Asteroid]] ''[[11580 Bautzen]]'' is named in honour of the city. Bautzen is historical capital of [[Lusatia|Upper Lusatia]], and it is the most important cultural centre of the [[Sorbs]], a [[Slavic peoples|Slavic]] minority. During [[World War II]] and the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi era]], there was a subcamp of the [[Groß-Rosen concentration camp]] in Bautzen. [[Ernst Thälmann]] was imprisoned there before being deported to [[Buchenwald]]. After the war Bautzen was well known in the German Democratic Republic because of its prison. Bautzen I was used as an official prison, Bautzen II was a secret prison for [[prisoners of conscience]] (people arrested for the