Elbersdorf is a village in the municipality

Dürrröhrsdorf-Dittersbach Dürrröhrsdorf-Dittersbach () is a municipality in the district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. It is located on the river Wesenitz, 6 km west of Stolpen, 9 km northeast of Pirna and 18 km east of Dresden. ...

, in the landkreis Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, 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 ...

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. The village is near the river

Wesenitz The Wesenitz (''Wjazońca'' in Upper Sorbian language) is a river in Saxony, Germany, right tributary of the Elbe. Its total length is . The Wesenitz runs through the tourist regions of the Lusatian Highlands and Saxon Switzerland. Its name is d ...

and is known for the Belvedere Schöne Höhe: a

castle A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...

on the top of the hill of the village. Formerly an independent municipality, it was absorbed into Porschendorf in 1969, and with Porschendorf into Dürrröhrsdorf-Dittersbach in 1994. elbersdorf

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Former municipalities in Saxony Populated places in Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge {{SächsischeSchweizOsterzgebirge-geo-stub