Cottbus or Kottbus
[key], city, Brandenburg, E Germany, on the Spree River. It is an
industrial center and rail junction, but one that is heavily polluted with
sulfur dioxide. Manufactures include textiles, leather, machinery, and
building materials. Cottbus developed as a market center in the late 12th
cent. and passed to Brandenburg in the mid-15th cent. It was annexed, with
the rest of Lusatia, by Saxony
in 1635 and was taken by Prussia in 1815.
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