Lübben

Lübben stands on the Spree at a narrowing between the upper and lower Spreewald in Lower Lusatia. Its location provided firm ground and a crossing amid a network of wetland channels. The town became a political centre of the margraviate, and the estates of Lower Lusatia met there.

A governor's administration was established in Lübben in 1564, followed by a church consistory in 1635 and a higher administrative government in 1666. Lower Lusatia passed to Saxon rule in 1635 and remained there until 1815, when it became Prussian. The change ended the older regional administrative organisation centred on Lübben.