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Hoyerswerda (hoi'ərsvĕr`dä), city (1994 pop. 60,890), Saxony, SE Germany, on the Black Elster River; chartered 1371. Located in a lignite-mining area, it is an industrial city, manufacturing glass, bricks, and other products. Economic decline after German reunification has resulted in a significant population drop; Hoyerswerda was once a city of 75,000.

Hoyerswerda

a city in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), in Cottbus district; situated on the Schwarze Elster River. Population, 62,800 (1973). Hoyerswerda, a transportation junction, is a center for the mining of brown coal in the Lower Lusatian Basin. The new section of the city has a residential complex for the employees of the Schwarze Pumpe Combine.

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