What is "oderwitz"

Oderwitz (from Slavic for rinse) is a Saxon municipality in the district Görlitz in Upper Lusatia, Germany. It is located in the southeast of the Free State of Saxony near the border with the Czech Republic. It consists of the two districts Oberoderwitz and Niederoderwitz, in the historic tripartite division of the place also Mitteloderwitz is known.