 It is plausible that an early inhabitancy could already have existed at a street between Bautzen and the so-called ""Böhmisch Zwickau"" (Bohemian Zwickau) around the year 1000 or even further back.The real settlement, however, started in the 13th century when colonists from Franconia and Thuringia came to find a new place to live in this region.On the river banks of the "Cunewalder Wasser", the settlers were each assigned a plot of land to cultivate as a meadow, field or forest.