The Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape[1][2][3] (also ... District[4] or ... Lake District,[5] German: Oberlausitzer Heide- und Teichgebiet; Upper Sorbian: Hornjołužyska krajina holy a hatow) is a natural region in Saxony.
It runs from a line between Wittichenau and Kamenz for roughly 60 kilometres in an east-west direction as far as the River Neisse.
The region is part of the Saalian glaciation meltwater valley or urstromtal.
Almost 10% of the area is made up of 335 ponds, which makes the Upper Lusatian Heath and Lake District the largest economically utilized pond region in Europe.
Part of the original landscape was destroyed by the brown coal open-cast mine around the Boxberg Power Station, however the pits left behind have been flooded and now form a new part of the countryside.