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Rathen
Rathen is a village in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, in Saxony, Germany, about southeast of Dresden. The village occupies both banks of the river Elbe and, as of 2020, has 339 inhabitants. Rathen is a popular tourist destination, the main sights are the Bastei cliffs, the Amselsee (a lake), and the outdoor theater ''"Felsenbühne Rathen"''. History Rathen was founded in the 13th century around 1261 as place for a castle fortress. During World War II, a subcamp of Flossenbürg concentration camp was located here. Tourism The state-recognised climatic spa of Rathen is not only the base for tours in the western part of Saxon Switzerland, but also for the world-famous Bastei (rock), Bastei rocks. Other popular destinations in the local Amselgrund valley are the lake of Amselsee and the Rathen Open Air Stage. There are a good 400 inhabitants on both sides of the Elbe, linked by the historic Rathen Ferry, which is a protected monument. In addition to the Old Mill of 1567, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rathen Open Air Stage
The Rathen Open Air Stage () is a natural stage in Saxon Switzerland in East Germany. It is located in a hollow at the upper end of the Wehlgrund valley between the rocks of ''Kleine Gans'' and ''Großer Wehrturm'' below the famous Bastei rocks and Neurathen Castle. The entrance to the hollow branches off just above the valley's junction with the Amselgrund. History The open-air theatre has 2,000 seats (since its expansion in 1957) and was laid out in 1936, inspired by the ideas of the '' Thingbewegung'' movement, by the municipality of Rathen for the staging of plays and concerts. It opened with ''Basteispiel'' by Kurt Arnold Findeisen. By 1938 the first Karl May Festivals were being held. After the war the stage reopened in 1946. Since 1954 the stone stage has been used by the '' Landesbühnen Sachsen''. In 1984 their performance of ''Schatz im Silbersee'' in an adaptation by Helmut Menschel continued the interrupted tradition of Karl May. It was followed by ''Winnetou'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurort Rathen Railway Station
Kurort Rathen station serves the village of Rathen in the German state of Saxony. The station is located in the Oberrathen quarter of the village on the south bank on the Elbe on the Dresden to Děčín railway line. It is linked to the Niederrathen quarter on the other bank of the river by the Rathen Ferry, a passenger-only reaction ferry. The station is served by the Dresden S-Bahn S1 service. Trains run to Pirna, Dresden and Meißen in one direction, and to Bad Schandau Bad Schandau (; , ) is a spa town in Germany, in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district of Saxony. It is situated on the right bank of the Elbe, at the mouth of the valley of the Kirnitzsch and in the ar ... and Schöna in the other direction. The service provides two trains per hour in both directions for most of each day. References {{reflist, 30em Railway stations in Saxony Rathen Dresden S-Bahn stations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bastei (rock)
The Bastei is a rock formation rising above the Elbe River in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains of Germany. Reaching a height of above sea level, the jagged rocks of the Bastei were formed by water erosion over one million years ago. They are situated near Rathen, not far from Pirna southeast of the city of Dresden, and are the major landmark of the Saxon Switzerland National Park. They are also part of a climbing and hiking area that extends over the borders into the Bohemian Switzerland (Czech Republic). The Bastei has been a tourist attraction for over 200 years. In 1824, a wooden bridge was constructed to link several rocks for the visitors. This bridge was replaced in 1851 by the present Bastei Bridge made of sandstone. The rock formations and vistas have inspired numerous artists, among them Caspar David Friedrich (). The spa town of Rathen is the main base for visiting the Bastei; the town can be reached from Dresden by paddle steamer on the river Elbe. History The na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schwedenlöcher
The Schwedenlöcher is a gorge-like side valley of the Amselgrund near Rathen in Saxon Switzerland. History The deeply incised ravine was formed by the erosion of the soft sandstone. Its course follows the Elbe Sandstone Mountains#Geology, main direction of fissuring in the Elbe sandstone. Originally the Schwedenlöcher was an undeveloped gorge that was difficult to access and was known as the ''Blanker Grund''. When, during the Thirty Years' War, the village of Rathewalde to the north was destroyed by Swedish soldiers in August 1639, the peasants of the region fled into the wild gorge and carried their possessions to safety. The gorge served as a refuge during later conflicts, such as in 1706 during the Great Nordic War, in 1813 during the German Campaign of 1813, Wars of Liberation and in 1945 during the last days of the Second World War. In the 1780s, the first tracks were made in the Schwedenlöchern in order to extract timber. This is recalled by several dates chiselled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amselsee
The Amselsee (also ''Amselsee Rathen'') is a small reservoir in the spa town of Rathen in Saxon Switzerland. It is located in the Free State of Saxony in Eastern Germany. Reservoir To create the Amselsee in Saxon Switzerland, in 1934 a stream, the ''Grünbach'' (or ''Amselgrundbach''), the main waterbody in the Amselgrund valley, was impounded by the municipality of Rathen just above its confluence with the Wehlgrund that joins from the rights 1934. The dam is around five metres high. At 127 m above sea level the curved, narrow, roughly 550 m long trout pond is used in summer for boat rides (using slot machines!) as well as for fish breeding and also provides flood prevention. Round trips have been possible since 1969. The trout stock is sometimes mixed with American rainbow trout. Amongst the lakeside vegetation broad-winged damselflies or demoiselles may be seen. Dam The barrier is a straight gravity dam made of rubble stone masonry. It was built in 1934 and taken into ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neurathen Castle
Neurathen Castle (), which was first mentioned by this name in 1755,http://www.raubschlösser.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84&Itemid=64 is located near the famous Bastei rocks near Rathen in Saxon Switzerland in the German state of Saxony. This was once the largest rock castle in the region, but today only the rooms carved out of the rock, passages, the cistern and the beam supports of the former wooden superstructure have survived. In the years 1982–1984 parts of the extensive castle were used to build the open-air museum. See also * List of castles in Saxony References Sources * Anne Müller, Matthias Weinhold: ''Felsenburgen der Sächsischen Schweiz. Neurathen - Winterstein - Arnstein.'' Reihe Burgen, Schlösser und Wehrbauten in Mitteleuropa Band 23, Verlag Schnell und Steiner, Regensburg 2010, * Richard Vogel: ''Gebiet Königstein Sächsische Schweiz''. Reihe Werte unserer Heimat Werte der deutschen Heimat (literally "Values of the German Hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altrathen Castle
Altrathen Castle () is located on a rock outcrop near Rathen in Saxon Switzerland in the German state of Saxony. History Unlike the neighbouring Neurathen Castle, very little is known about the history of this fortification. It was probably built at the same time in the 11th century. The castle was first mentioned in the records in 1289. In 1469, Altrathen and Neurathen castles were slighted. In 1888, the industrialist Eduard Seifert bought the ruins of the castle and rebuilt it in 1893 in a Neogothic style. Of the medieval castle, only the cellars and parts of the spiral staircase of the keep have survived. After 1945 the building acted as a works holiday home for the VEB Brau und Malz in Dresden and later for the East German state bank. In 1995 the site was sold by the ''Treuhandanstalt The (, " Trust agency"), colloquially referred to as , was an agency established by the government of the German Democratic Republic to reprivatise/ privatise East German enterprises, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rauenstein (mountain)
The Rauenstein is a table hill in Saxon Switzerland in Germany. It rises west of the Elbe inside the Elbe loop near Rathen. It has a height of and drops steeply to the north into the Elbe valley. It has a deeply incised structure and is about long and wide. It thus rises almost over the surrounding area. The Rauenstein is almost completely wooded, but has several dominant sandstone rock faces. The sandstone here is very soft and heavily weathered. Location and area On the eastern side is the village of Weißig in the borough of Struppen. On the north and east side there are various climbing towers, the best known being the ''Nonne'' or ''Nonnenstein'', that is situated 200 metres from the eastern side of the Rauenstein. The rock was the site of a medieval watchtower (''Burgwarte''). At the southeastern end of the Rauenstein is a hill restaurant that has been there since 1893. Before that, from 1886 to 1893, drinks were sold in the Kapp Cave (''Kapphöhle''), also the Kap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elbe Sandstone Mountains
The Elbe Sandstone Mountains, also called the Elbe Sandstone Highlands (, ; , ), are a mountain range straddling the border between the state of Saxony in southeastern Germany and the North Bohemian region of the Czech Republic, with about three-quarters of the area lying on the German side. In both countries, core parts of the mountain range have been declared a national park. The name derives from the sandstone which was carved by erosion. The river Elbe breaks through the mountain range in a steep and narrow valley. The Saxon Switzerland and Bohemian Switzerland national parks, known also as Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland, are located within the territory of Elbe Sandstone Mountains. Geography Extent The Elbe Sandstone Mountains extend on both sides of the Elbe from the Saxon town of Pirna in the northwest toward Bohemian Děčín in the southeast. Their highest peak with is the Děčínský Sněžník in Bohemian Switzerland on the left bank of the river in Bohemian Switzerl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
