Großschönau
Municipality
Municipal office
Coat of arms
Location of Großschönau within Görlitz district
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Coordinates: 50°53′47″N 14°39′44″E / 50.89639°N 14.66222°E / 50.89639; 14.66222
Country	Germany
State	Saxony
District	Görlitz
Municipal assoc.	Großschönau-Waltersdorf
Government
• Mayor (2022–29)	Frank Peuker[1]
Area
• Total	23.87 km2 (9.22 sq mi)
Elevation	350 m (1,150 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	5,276
• Density	220/km2 (570/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	02779
Dialling codes	035841
Vehicle registration	GR, LÖB, NOL, NY, WSW, ZI
Website	www.grossschoenau.de

Großschönau (Upper Sorbian: Wulki Šunow, pronounced [ˈwulkʲi ˈʃunɔf]; Czech: Velký Šenov) is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany located in the cross-border region with the Czech Republic. It used to be a famous Upper Lusatian center of Damask fabric production until the end of the 1980s. Since then it has turned into an area of tourism.

In Großschönau is the historical sylvan lido Trixi Park, a spa which was expanded with indoor swimming pools, a sauna, camping ground and holiday flats. The town is a child-friendly starting point for hikers and cyclists alike who want to explore both sides of the Czech-German border area with its relatively attractive price level. Mount Lausche (793 m) is situated in the community of Waltersdorf and marks the highest peak of the Lusatian Mountains.

A road connects German Großschönau with its Czech neighboring city of Varnsdorf. The railway station of Grossschönau offers tri-national connections to Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany as the existing track runs through all three countries of the Euroregion. As all countries are members of the Schengen Area, all border checkpoints have been eliminated.

• Johann Eleazar Zeissig, known as Schenau (1737–1806), German artist

• Richter, Friedrich Theodor (1837). Geschichtlich-statistische Darstellung der Damastmanufactur-Orte Groß- und Neu-Schönau in der Königl.-Sächs. Oberlausitz (in German) (1 ed.). Leipzig, Germany: Julius Klinkhardt [de]. ISBN 978-3-75361-315-4. Retrieved 2024-10-12. [1] (440 pages)
• Raetzer, Maren (2003) [2002]. Damast aus Großschönau - Die Produktionsstätte und die dort gewebten Kunstwerke vom 17. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert - Band I: Text & Band II:Katalog und Abbildungen (Dissertation thesis). Schriften zur Kulturwissenschaft (in German). Vol. 52. Hamburg, Germany: Verlag Dr. Kovač [de]. ISBN 3-8300-0864-3. ISSN 1435-6589. (402+4 & 268+2+198+4 pages in 2 volumes)