Orlasenke. Originally it comprised the following 8 villages:
Bad Klosterlausnitz,
Hermsdorf,
Oberndorf,
Reichenbach,
Schleifreisen,
Sankt Gangloff,
Tautenhain and
Weißenborn.
Description and history
The reason for the extensive forests of this landscape is its rather infertile soils, which have been formed from the
sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks.
Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicat ...
s of the
Bunter formation that make up the area. As a result, the Holzland is of limited use for agriculture.
The rich timber industry of the area meant that once typical occupations, such as ladder maker (''Leitermacher''), blacksmith (''Peckschmied''), tubmaker (''Muldenhauer''), etc., were very common here. Which is why the area is also often referred to not infrequently as ''Leiterland'' ("ladder land"). In the late 19th century, the
china
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industry (the industry was based in
Hermsdorf - household porcelain was especially centred on
Reichenbach. After 1989 there were a large number of spin-offs from the Hermsdorf ceramic works (KWH) (from 1990 Tridelta AG) and several start-ups of companies in the
pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and ...
,
micro-electronics
Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture (or microfabrication) of very small electronic designs and components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre-sc ...
,
micromachinery
Micromachines are mechanical objects that are fabricated in the same general manner as integrated circuits. They are generally considered to be between 100 nanometres to 100 micrometres in size, though that is debatable. The applications of ...
,
powder metallurgy
Powder metallurgy (PM) is a term covering a wide range of ways in which materials or components are made from metal powders. PM processes can reduce or eliminate the need for subtractive processes in manufacturing, lowering material losses and ...
and
service industries
Service industries are those not directly concerned with the production of physical goods (such as agriculture and manufacturing).
Some service industries, including transportation, wholesale trade and retail trade are part of the supply chain de ...
, etc.
For many years the Thuringian Holzland has also been used as the recreational area of the East
Thuringia
Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million.
Erfurt is the capital and lar ...
n region and beyond. In warm weather, tourists walk in small and large groups by the
Zeitzgrund or the Eisenberg Mill Valley. The mills were mostly converted into
restaurant
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s and footpaths have largely been improved.
The railway line between
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...
,
Jena
Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a po ...
and
Gera
Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of cit ...
(via Stadtroda, Hermsdorf and Klosterlausnitz ) is called the
Holzland Railway.
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Regions of Thuringia
Saale-Holzland-Kreis
Forests and woodlands of Thuringia