Drebach is a municipality in the district of

Erzgebirgskreis Erzgebirgskreis is a district ('' Kreis'') in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is named after the Erzgebirge ("Ore Mountains"), a mountain range in the southern part of the district which forms part of the Germany–Czech Republic border. I ...

, in

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It consists of the ''Ortsteile'' (divisions) Drebach,

Grießbach Grießbach is a village and a former municipality in the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge) in Saxony, Germany. It was absorbed into the municipality Venusberg in 1999, and became part of the municipality Drebach in January 2010. It counts approximately ...

, Im Grund, Scharfenstein, Spinnerei, Venusberg, Wilischthal and Wiltzsch.Gemeinde Drebach und ihre acht Ortsteile
Gemeinde Drebach, accessed 12 October 2021.

Sights

Scharfenstein Castle

Scharfenstein Castle is located in the Village of Scharfenstein in the valley of the river

Zschopau Zschopau (), is a town in the Erzgebirgskreis district of Saxony, Germany. Geography The town is located on the northwestern slopes of the Ore Mountains, on both Bank (geography), banks of the Zschopau (river), Zschopau River, about south-east ...

. It houses, amongst other things, a permanent exhibition of

Ore Mountain folk art Ore Mountain folk art (german: link=no, Erzgebirgische Volkskunst) is a well-known form of highly artistic wood carving from East Germany. It encompasses the diverse forms of expression of the creative work beyond the classical or the modern arts ...

under the title ''Longing For the Light'' (''Sehnsucht nach dem Licht'') by Hamburg collector, Andreas Martin, and a number of craftsmen's workshops.

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