Silver Road

The 140 km long scenic route Silver Street is the first and longest of its kind in Saxony. Given the importance of mining for the Saxon history, the road connects the landmarks and tourist offers that are related to the centuries- old mining and metallurgy in the Ore Mountains and the Ore Mountains foreland. Since 2012 it is marketed as the Saxon and Bohemian Silver Street, with the extension of Annaberg- Buchholz to Ostrov, from the Erzgebirge Tourism eV.

Background

The Ore was particularly marked over 800 years of sustainable mining and to start from the silver mining industry, whose support industries and trades. It originated mines, smelters and mints that up to the present time traditions and customs were in turn arise. Several technical monuments, especially numerous mines and several iron works to the hilly landscape and the even regional accents in the Erzgebirge of life led to the development of the tourist route.

Today's Holiday Road Silver Street is, inter alia, on the historical Erztransportwege Silberwagenweg Annaberg -Buchholz - Selva - Lengefeld - Brand-Erbisdorf - Freiberg and Silver Street Scharfenberg - Freiberg back and symbolizes the way the silver from the silver mines in the Ore Mountains to the Erzaufbereitungsstätten and leads in the course of the historical prince path through the Tharandter forest to Dresden in the Green Vault, the treasure house of Wettin.

Course

Beginning in Zwickau leads the silver road over the mountain town of Schneeberg, the cities Aue, Black Mountain, the mountain towns of Annaberg -Buchholz, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Wolkenstein, Marienberg, Lengefeld, Sidon, fire -Erbisdorf to Freiberg and from here, about Tharandt and Freital, further into the Saxon capital of Dresden. From Annaberg -Buchholz, there is a turnoff to Ostrov in Bohemia.

The course coincides largely with the line management of the national highways 93, 169, 101, 171 and 173 and State Road 194 south south-east of Zwickau it performs the same town of Silver Street. Between Annaberg and Lengefeld and between fire -Erbisdorf and Freiberg she is partially in the course of the so-called silver carriage passage, an old post office and commercial street, between Freiberg and Obernaundorf part of a road which led from Scharfenberg on the Elbe to Freiberg, and extends in the direction of Dresden they also in the course of the historical prince path through the forest Tharandter. From Dresden to Zwickau Silver Street is accompanied by the Silver Street bike path. The branch of Annaberg -Buchholz direction Bohemia follows the old post road on the B 95 towards Carlsbad.

Attractions

The silver road opens up numerous special witnesses of the Saxon Mont estate tourism, including for example, the teaching and research mine " Reiche Zeche " and " Old Elizabeth ," the iron hammer Dorfchemnitz and Frohnauer hammer.

Numerous late Gothic hall churches (St. Wolfgang Church, St. Anne's Church, St. Mary's, Freiberg Cathedral ), Renaissance constructions and a variety of village churches with works of art of architecture, painting, sculpture and of organ building ( Gottfried Silbermann ) testify to the former wealth of the mining region.

In addition to the significant Minieraliensammlungen in Freiberg, like the terra mineralia, it also opens up the Geological Open-Air Museum and the Geological trail in Tharandter forest where you can explore almost all geological ages based on geological outcrops.

Even in the former residence of Saxon city of Dresden had the proceeds from the silver mining a significant proportion of the investment of the art collections and the development of architectural monuments.

The Holiday Road Silver Street is a very good place to start to get to know the Ore Mountains. The road layout is marked with a silver "S" and partly identical to the German Avenues.

Many events along the scenic route Silberstraße provide insight into mountain parades, Christmas customs and folklore. From crafts and handicrafts in particular carving, lace making and the Zinngießen well as producing the world-famous Christmas pyramids, nativity scenes, nutcrackers, smoking and other wood art are mentioned.