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Zittau Mountains

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Peak
  
Lausche

Highest point
  
Lausche

Elevation
  
792.6 m (2,600 ft)

Country
  
Germany

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State
  
Görlitz, Saxony,  Germany

Parent range
  
Lusatian Mountains (cross-border range) and the overarching Saxon Highlands and Uplands (GE)

Mountains
  
Lausche, Oybin, Jonsberg, Buchberg

Similar
  
Oybin, Hochwald, Töpfer, Jonsberg, Elbe Sandston

The Zittau Mountains (German: Zittauer Gebirge), formerly also called the Lusatian Ridge (Lausitzer Kamm, Czech. Žitavské hory), refer to the German part of the Lusatian Mountains that straddle the Saxon-Bohemian border in the extreme southeast of the German state of Saxony.

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Map of Zittau Mountains, 02796 Jonsdorf, Germany

LocationEdit

The Zittau Mountains lie in the extreme south of the district of Görlitz in Saxony. A few kilometres north of the range lie a number of settlements; from west to east they are Großschönau, Hainewalde, Olbersdorf, Bertsdorf-Hörnitz and Zittau. In the mountains themselves are, again from west to east, the settlements of Waltersdorf, Oybin, Jonsdorf and Lückendorf . The highlands are drained by streams that flow roughly north into the Mandau, a western tributary of the Lusatian Neisse.

MountainsEdit

Among the highest mountains in the range are the following (in order of height in m above NN:

  • Lausche (Luž; 792.6 m), German-Czech border mountain, south of Waltersdorf
  • Hochwald (Hvozd; 749.5 m), German-Czech border mountain, south-southwest of Oybin
  • Jonsberg (652.9 m), east-southeast of Jonsdorf
  • Buchberg (651.6 m), west of Jonsdorf
  • Scharfenstein (569.4 m), east of Oybin, north-northwest of Lückendorf
  • Breiteberg (510.1 m), east of Großschönau, south of Hainewalde
  • Oybin (514.5 m), north of Oybin
  • Töpfer (582 m), northeast of Oybin, south of Olbersdorf
  • Places of interestEdit

  • Oybin mountain with castle and monastery ruins
  • Mühlsteinbrüche, rock formations in Jonsdorf
  • Große Felsengasse ("Great Rock Alley")
  • Töpfer mountain
  • Lausche (792.6m), the highest summit in the Zittau Mountains
  • Breiteberg
  • Scharfenstein
  • Orgel (organ) - a rock formation in the Jonsdorfer Felsenstadt
  • Kelchstein ("Chalice Rock") a mushroom rock formation
  • Nonnenfelsen ("Nun's Rock") near Jonsdorf
  • Zittau Narrow Gauge Railway
  • Lusatian timber-frame farmhouses (Umgebindehäuser), especially in Waltersdorf, Jonsdorf and Bertsdorf
  • LiteratureEdit

  • Peter Rölke (Hrsg.): Wander- & Naturführer Zittauer Gebirge, Berg- & Naturverlag Rölke, Dresden 2006, ISBN 3-934514-17-0
  • References

    Zittau Mountains Wikipedia