Großer Zschirnstein
The Großer Zschirnstein () is the highest hill in the Saxon and German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. Origin of the name The name appears to be derived from the Slavic root word for "black". Location and area There are two climbing peaks on the Großer Zschirnstein - the Großer and Kleiner Zschirnsteinturm ("Great" and "Little Zschirnstein Tower"). There is also the ''Südwand (IV)'' climbing route that ends directly at the highest point on the hill. This climbing route is one of the three exceptions to Saxon climbing regulations which state that climbing of massifs is generally forbidden. On the south summit, near the viewing point, a Nagel Column (''Nagelsche Säule'') has stood since 1865. It recalls August Nagel, the head of survey in Saxony in the 19th century. The survey was carried out using triangulation. Other trig points in the area are located ''inter alia'' on the Raumberg, the Lilienstein, the Cottaer Spitzberg and the Hoher Schneeberg. The column on th ...
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Zschirnsteine
The Zschirnsteine are two prominent table (landform), table hills in the Germany, German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. They are located in the municipality of Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna, about 7 km south of the German resort of Bad Schandau. They lie west of the River Elbe and not far north of the Czech Republic, Czech border. The 561 m high Großer Zschirnstein ("Great Zschirnstein") is the highest hill in Saxon Switzerland. The Kleiner Zschirnstein ("Little Zschirnstein") is also a sandstone table hill. It is 473 m high and lies north of the Großer Zschirnstein. Both tables lie in the midst of a forest and may be climbed on foot. They offer extensive views of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and beyond. A good base for walking to the hills is the Panoramahotel Wolfsberg near the village of Reinhardtsdorf. Literatur * External links

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Tertiary
Tertiary ( ) is a widely used but obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago. The period began with the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, at the start of the Cenozoic Era, and extended to the beginning of the Quaternary glaciation at the end of the Pliocene Epoch. The time span covered by the Tertiary has no exact equivalent in the current geologic time system, but it is essentially the merged Paleogene and Neogene periods, which are informally called the Early Tertiary and the Late Tertiary, respectively. The Tertiary established the Antarctic as an icy island continent. Historical use of the term The term Tertiary was first used by Giovanni Arduino during the mid-18th century. He classified geologic time into primitive (or primary), secondary, and tertiary periods based on observations of geology in Northern Italy. Later a fourth period, the Quaternary, was applied. In the early d ...
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Jedlová (hill)
Jedlová (german: Schönbrunn) is a municipality and village in Svitavy District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants. Jedlová lies approximately south-west of Svitavy, south-east of Pardubice, and east of Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate .... References Villages in Svitavy District {{Pardubice-geo-stub ...
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Vlčí Hora
The Vlčí hora (German: ''Wolfsberg'', 581 m) is one of the most prominent peaks in the lowlands of the Šluknov Hook (''Šluknovsko'') in the Czech Republic. Location and area The Vlčí hora is located in the Šluknov Hook, six kilometres west of Rumburk immediately on the edge of the forest and rock landscape of the Bohemian Switzerland. At its foot are the municipalities of Staré Křečany (''Alt Ehrenberg'') with the village of Brtníky (''Zeidler''), and Krásná Lípa (''Schönlinde'') with its villages of Sněžná (Krásná Lípa), Sněžná (''Schnauhübel''), Vlčí Hora (''Wolfsberg'') and Zahrady (''Gärten''). The summit is crowned by an old mountain hut with an observation tower. At the eastern foot of the mountain is the Veronica Well (''Veronikabrunnen'' or ''Verunčina studánka''). Immediately north of the mountain is the source region of the River Mandau. File:Vlci_hora2.jpg, Observation tower File:Veronikabrunnen.jpg, Veronica Well File:Koglerova_stezka.j ...
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Kottmar
Kottmar ( hsb, Kotmar) is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany. It is part of the Lusatian Highlands The Lusatian Highlands''Upper Lusatia''
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Zirkelstein
The Zirkelstein is the smallest table hill of Saxon Switzerland, in Germany. It is a wooded, cone-shaped hill with a striking summit block of sandstone rock. Location and area The Zirkelstein is located five kilometres southeast of Bad Schandau in the part of Saxon Switzerland that lies left of the River Elbe. Immediately northwest of the hill is the village of Schöna in the municipality of Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna, whilst east of the hill – in the Elbe valley – is the municipality of Hřensko (''Herrnskretschen''), over the border in the Czech Republic. Immediately at the foot of the Zirkelstein is a former Friends of Nature house with a restaurant and a small bungalow village. The land of the Zirkelstein has been in private hands since 2008. History In 1841 the then owner of the hill, Johann Gottlob Füssel, built a small inn on the side of the Zirkelstein. In 1842 facilities were built to enable the summit to be made accessible to visitors. The inn was run by the famil ...
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Großer Winterberg
Großer Winterberg is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany. It is the second highest mountain of the Saxon Switzerland and is located on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The .... Mountains of Saxon Switzerland Elbe Sandstone Mountains {{Saxony-geo-stub ...
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Schrammsteine
The Schrammsteine are a long, strung-out, very jagged group of rocks in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains located east of Bad Schandau in Saxon Switzerland in eastern Germany. To the north they are bordered by the Kirnitzsch valley, to the south by the Elbe, Elbe valley and to the east by the Affensteine rocks. The high point of the chain lies at over . The viewing point on the Schrammsteine lies at a height of .Map Service
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To the west the frontmost ''Torstein'' forms the start of the chain of rocks in the southwest. The rocks then run up to the Schrammstein viewing point, gashed by three, mighty, vertical rock openings, the ''Schrammtoren'' (''Toren'' = gateways or openings in German, ''vorderer'' ...
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