Niesky

For the community in the United States also known as Niesky, see Hollo, Pennsylvania.

Niesky
Town
Market place
Coat of arms
Location of Niesky within Görlitz district
Country	Germany
State	Saxony
Admin. region	Dresden
District	Görlitz
Government
• Mayor	Wolfgang Rückert
Area
• Total	53.61 km2 (20.70 sq mi)
Elevation	172 m (564 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	9,249
• Density	170/km2 (450/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	02906
Dialling codes	03588
Vehicle registration	GR
Website	www.niesky.de

Niesky (-German, Sorbian/Polish: Niska) is a small town in Upper Lusatia in eastern the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It has a population of about 11,000 and is part of the district of Görlitz.

The town was founded in 1742 by Bohemian immigrants. As members of the Moravian Church, they fled from persecution in their Catholic homeland. The name Niesky is the Germanised version of the Czech word nízký ("low"). In 1776, at the age of 12, Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe, future designer of the United States Capitol, as well as of the Baltimore Basilica, was sent to the Moravian School at Niesky.

In 1926 the architect Konrad Wachsmann was working in the timber construction firm Christoph & Unmack AG.

Localities of Niesky are Neuhof, Neusärchen, Neuödernitz, Ödernitz, See, Zeche-Moholz, Kosel, Zedlig and Sandschänke.

Twin Town

Niesky is twinned with the French town of Albert.