Klingenberg () is a municipality in the

Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains (, ) is a district ('' Kreis'') in Saxony, Germany. It is named after the mountain ranges Saxon Switzerland and Eastern Ore Mountains. History The district was established by merging the former districts ...

district, in

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

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. It was formed on 31 December 2012 by the merger of the former municipalities Pretzschendorf and

Höckendorf Höckendorf () is a village and a former municipality in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in Saxony, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea ...

Geography

The municipality is located 20 kilometers south-west of

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

and 10 kilometers west of

Dippoldiswalde Dippoldiswalde (; Saxon: ''Dipps'') is a town in Saxony, Germany, part of the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district. It is situated 23 km east of Freiberg, and 18 km south of Dresden. The town is situated on the Weisseritz railway ...

. Klingenberg consists of 11 subdivisions: Beerwalde, Borlas, Colmnitz (including Folge), Friedersdorf, Höckendorf (including Edle Krone), Klingenberg, Obercunnersdorf, Paulshain, Pretzschendorf, Röthenbach and Ruppendorf.

Transport

Klingenberg is located along

Dresden–Werdau railway The Dresden–Werdau railway is an electrified, double-track main line in the German state of Saxony. It runs from Dresden Hauptbahnhof, Dresden via Freiberg (Sachs) station, Freiberg, Chemnitz Hauptbahnhof, Chemnitz and Zwickau Hauptbahnhof, Z ...

, having two stations within its limits: Klingenberg-Colmnitz (located in the boroughs of Klingenberg and Colmnitz) and Edle Krone (located in the village of

). At Klingenberg-Colmnitz station two narrow-gauge railway lines used to branch off until the early 1970s, connecting also the villages of Colmnitz and Pretzschendorf to the rail network.

References

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