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The study deals with the records of the Turkish threat to Europe 16 to 18 century chronicles the town of Zittau. Although Upper Lusatia never been occupied by the Turks, occurs in almost fifty manuscripts urban chronicles of Zittau very frequent reflection "Turkish danger". It consists of records of battles with the Turks, copies of songs about military engagements with them, Christian prayer against the Turks or Turkish conversely against Christians, threatening letters Turkish rulers and high officials of the Habsburg emperors 16 to 18 century. However, the risk that some songs were created in the German lands as a hidden polemic Lutherans with Catholics, which in this case represented just Habsburgs. Study author presents several reasons why it is precisely in Zittau chronicles so much attention given to the topic regionally seemingly insignificant. Besides maintaining the event for future generations there could be motivated effort to leave the moral and religious appeal, show bravery burghers from Zittau, who campaign against the Turks in Hungary attended or justify financial requirements (including tax) for war against "heathens". Chronicles were also showcase awareness of their authors. The frequency of records of Turks in Zittau chronicles could also cause "musealization 'memories by collecting monuments to the Turks. It was the booty they had brought participants from Upper Lusatia trips to Hungary, and that at the beginning of the 18th century was in Zittau museum. Little comparative probe into the chronicles of the neighboring city of Bautzen, showed less interest in anti-Turkish wars and military clashes with the Ottomans. Only further research chronicles former Upper Lusatian towns Bautzen, Görlitz, Kamentz, Lauban and Löbau can show whether the Turks were outstanding issue was only in the early modern annals of Zittau. The study is accompanied by a series of pamphlets of Habsburg 1683rd.