Cunewalde (German: [kuːnəˈvaldə]) or Kumwałd (Upper Sorbian) is a municipality in the district of Bautzen in the east of the federal Free State of Saxony in Germany.

It lies between the cities of Bautzen and Löbau in a valley between the hills of the Czorneboh, the Hochstein and the Bieleboh, all part of the northernmost mountain ranges of the Lusatian Highlands.

On the river banks of the Cunewalder Wasser, the settlers were each assigned a plot of land to cultivate as a meadow, field or forest.

At the end of the 19th century, the small weavers in their typical Upper Lusatian houses had to face a growing textile industry.

During that time, the infrastructural network was also developing at a rapid pace, as a new railway-connection between Großpostwitz and Cunewalde was opened in 1890 and eventually extended to the nearby city of Löbau.