page_title: Cottbus
section_title: before 1800
hierarchical_section_title: Cottbus / Notable people / before 1800
context_page_description: Cottbus is a university city and the second-largest city in Brandenburg, Germany. Situated around 125 km southeast of Berlin, on the River Spree, Cottbus is also a major railway junction with extensive sidings/depots. Although only a small Sorbian minority lives in Cottbus itself, the city is considered as the political and cultural center of the Sorbs in Lower Lusatia.
context_section_description: Carl Blechen (1798–1840), landscape painter
caption: Carl Blechen - Self-Portrait
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