Pulsnitz (German, pronounced [ˈpʊls.nɪt͡s] ⓘ; Upper Sorbian name: Połčnica, pronounced [ˈpɔwtʃnʲitsa]) or Połčnica is a town in the district of Bautzen, in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany.

Other crafts also developed, with a linen weavers' guild founded in 1597, and the first local potter mentioned in 1653.

[3] During the Thirty Years' War of 1618–1648 the town suffered four fires, and in 1633 and 1680 it was hit by epidemics.

[3] The first Protestant missionary to arrive in India, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg was born in Pulsnitz on July 10, 1682.

[4] During the final stages of World War II, in April 1945, the Polish Second Army captured the town.