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BACKGROUND GENEALOGY
Bischofswerda, Saxony, Prussia
http://www.postleitzahl.org/sachsen/bischofswerda/
http://www.reisen-deutschlandweit.de/?menu=objekt&objekt=487&bund=14®ion=86
http://www.bischofswerda.de/stadt/karte1.htm
The town is located 33 km to 40 km to the east of Dresden at the edge of the Upper Lusatian mountain country.
http://www.uwe-fiedler.eu/bischofswerda.pdf
1856
BISCHOFSWERDA
(just North-East of Dresden)
[Source: Das Koenigreich Sachsen, entworfen und gezeichnet von C.F. Weiland. (with) Grundriss von Dresden n.d. neust. Aufnahmen gez. von A. Roetsch. (with) Der besuchteste Theil dersogenannten Sachsischen Schweiz nach v. Odeleben gez. von F. Hockner. Gest. v. C. Poppey. Weimar, im Verlage des Geograph. Instituts, 1856 - http://www.davidrumsey.com/directory/where/Saxony++Germany+/ ]
1911
BISCHOFSWERDA, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, on the Wesenitz, and at the junction of the DresdenGorlitz and Bischofswerda-Zittau railways in the governmental district of Bautzen. Pop. (1905) 7465. There are cloth, artificial flower, and cigar factories, glass-works, potteries, and in the neighbourhood large granite quarries. It is famous as the scene of a battle, on the 12th of May 1813, between the French and the Allies after Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. It was the residence of Benno, bishop of Meissen, in the 1 i th century, and the "Bishop's Road" still runs from here to Meissen.
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Bischofswerda