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- proper noun
independent city inSaxony , Germany
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Examples
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Out of his secondary school class of around 25, only three people are still in Hoyerswerda.
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Ask anyone under 30 to describe life in Hoyerswerda, and out it all comes: it's a "pensioner town" where young people are too often sidelined.
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Hoyerswerda is about 90 miles south of Berlin and 40 miles from the Polish border.
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In the short-term, the results of the town's decline were in keeping with that time-honoured symbiosis between shrinking prospects and the politics of hate: Hoyerswerda remains a byword for a deeply ugly episode in 1991 when local neo-nazis besieged a hostel for refugees, cheered on by hundreds of locals.
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Ebeling is an embodiment of Hoyerswerda's predicament: he's been through two traineeships in the retail trade, but remains unemployed, with vague plans to go to either Dresden or Leipzig, east German cities held up as examples of post-reunification success.
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Both his parents, he says, are on benefits – they want him out of Hoyerswerda, and fast.
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On one side of the centre of Hoyerswerda is a stereotypically east German high-rise estate, whose car park is no more than a quarter full.
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On the edge of the Hoyerswerda's main park, six or seven adolescents – all hooded tops, beer bottles and cigarette smoke – seem to be readying themselves for a night of getting pissed and mucking about.
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Hoyerswerda's peak population has dropped by around 40%, emptying out vast residential leviathans that are still being demolished.
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In Hoyerswerda, worthwhile apprenticeships are pathetically thin on the ground.
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