Kreischa
Sign in to saveKreischa is a municipality in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, Saxony, Germany. It directly borders the Saxon capital Dresden and consists of 14 districts.
Key facts
- German location.image_photo
- Kreischa Rathaus (1) 2006-06-27.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Town hall
- German location.image_coa
- Wappen_Kreischa.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Kreischa in PIR.svg
- German location.state
- Sachsen
- German location.district
- Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge
- German location.elevation
- 257
- German location.area
- 28.97
- German location.postal_code
- 01731
- German location.area_code
- 035206
- German location.licence
- PIR
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 14628220
- German location.divisions
- 14
- German location.website
- www.kreischa.de
- German location.mayor
- Frank Schöning
- German location.leader_term
- 2022–29
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Weißeritzkreis
- Population
- 4592
- Area
- 28.92
- Elevation
- 257
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Lockwitzbach
- Shares border with
- Dohna
- Official website
- www.kreischa.de
- Image
- Kreischa Rathaus (1) 2006-06-27.jpg
- Dialing code
- 035206
- Licence plate code
- PIR
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- Commons category
- Kreischa
- postal code
- 01731
- Commons gallery
- Kreischa
- twinned administrative body
- Loffenau
- hashtag
- Kreischa
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Kreischa is a municipality in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, Saxony, Germany. It directly borders the Saxon capital Dresden and consists of 14 districts.
Kreischa was first mentioned in 1282 in the name Heinricus de Kryschowe. The name could be derived from an Old Slavic word meaning "crooked" or "lame".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kreischa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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