Zittau Mountains
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Walter village with mountain Listen
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Called The Zittau Mountains, formerly Lusatian comb ( tschech. Žitavské hory ), the German part of the extending to the Saxon- Bohemian border Lusatian Mountains in the far southeast of Saxony. There is a maximum of 792.6 m above sea level. NN high and belongs to mountain range of the Sudetes.
- 5.1 General
- 5.2 Climbing
Geography
Geographical location
The Zittau Mountains located in the extreme south of the district of Görlitz. A few kilometers north of the mountain range located in west-east direction considered the localities Grossschönau, Hainewalde, Bert Village Hoernitz and Olbersdorf; the eponymous town of Zittau lies northeast Olbersdorfs, a few more miles away, but right on the edge of the broader Natural Park Zittau Mountains.
In the mountains themselves are seen in the same direction, Walter Village, Jonsdorf, Oybin and Lückendorf. Drained the mountains over streams that flow north into the Mandau about, a western tributary of the Lusatian Neisse.
Mountains
To the mountains and ridges of the mountains belong - with height in meters above mean sea level ( MSL ):
- Listen ( Luž; 792.6 m), German - Czech border mountain, south of the village of Walter
- Hochwald ( Hvozd; 749.5 m), German - Czech border mountain, south-southwest of Oybin
- Jonsberg ( 652.9 m), southeast of Jonsdorf
- Book Mountain ( 651.6 m), west of Jonsdorf
- Scharfstein ( 569.4 m), east of Oybin, north-northwest of Lückendorf
- Breiteberg ( 510.1 m), east of Grossschönau, south of Hainewalde
- Oybin ( 514.5 m), north of Oybin
- Töpfer ( 582 m), northeast of Oybin, south of Olbersdorf
Nature Spatial allocation
In the natural environment breakdown Meynen represents the Zittau mountains a main unit (431 ) within the Saxon- Bohemian Cretaceous sandstone area (main unit group 43 ) that the otherwise only includes on German soil, the Saxon Switzerland as the main unit. The interface of the two main mountains, the Lusatian Mountains and the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, located on Czech soil, which is why these natural areas are spatially separated.
The working group ecosystem and area character of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig has now been combined at the beginning of the 21st century, all the Central Mountains in the Saxon- Bohemian border area superunit Saxon mountains and highlands. Heard between Zittau Mountains and Saxon Switzerland to the Lusatian Highlands, which was still grouped by Meynen to the north and east Lösshügellandschaften subsequent to the main unit Upper Lusatia; to the west, the new superunit continues into the main unit groups Erzgebirge and Vogtland.
The natural spatial boundary of the Zittau Mountains passes well south of the popular, as they can be read on many maps. The along its extending in directions ostsüdöstliche Czech border about 14 km long mountain range has thus a width of just 1.5 to ( in extreme cases ) less than 4 km and touches the Lusatian mountain country is not on German soil.
Geology and topographical description
→ Main article: Lusatian Mountains
Special
The main ridge of the Zittau Mountains forming a part of the watershed between the Baltic and North Sea ( North Sea and Baltic Sea watershed ). The watershed is in the Lausitz pronounced as the boundary of the catchment areas of the Lusatian Neisse and Spree and decreases with the Zittau mountains of the north to the running of the Sudetes.
Typically in the Zittau Mountains are located at Oybin and Jonsdorf sandstone rock areas, which by the highest mountains - are surmounted - which consist of phonolite ( phonolite ). The highest and most prominent mountains are Listen ( 792.6 m above sea level. NN ) and high forest ( 749.5 m above sea level. NN ), which are the highest peaks east of the Elbe on German territory. As can be found in these mountains, especially species-rich deciduous forests predominate in the sandstone areas of pine and spruce.
As in all mountain ranges of the Sudeten these were severely damaged by the emissions of the surrounding power stations ( Boxberg, Hagenwerder, Hirschfelde Turow / Poland), but also by Schadstoffverfrachtung from the North Bohemian Basin in the 1970s and 1980s. Visitors will see these effects was carried out afforestation, decommissioning or flue gas cleaning of the remaining power plants in the presence barely.
Tourism
General
The best-known resorts in the Zittau Mountains are Walter village, Jonsdorf, Oybin and Lückendorf. Traditionally, the Zittau Mountains are popular for hiking, climbing and winter sports area. Also of cyclists, especially mountain bikers, it is often visited. The limit may be exceeded to the Schengen Agreement at any point since the accession of the Czech Republic. At most points in the Zittau Mountains but that's just walkers and cyclists possible. Typical of the Zittau mountains is the dense network of roads with many vantage points.
Winter sport is played in all four mountain communities, especially cross-country skiing (entire area ), alpine skiing ( Listen, Oybin Grove, Lückendorf ), sledding ( Hochwald ) and ice ( Jonsdorf ). Snow Winter arms in the 1990s have a reputation as a safe mountain snow but permanently damaged. With the construction of the ice rink in Jonsdorf beginning of the 1990s, an alternative offer was created for the holiday guests.
The since 1890 of Zittau from circulating to Oybin and Jonsdorf Zittau narrow gauge railway is one of the biggest attractions of the Zittau Mountains. This was built from the outset as a tourist railway line is still operated today with historic steam locomotives.
Rock climbing
→ Main article: climbing area Zittau Mountains
As in the neighboring Saxon Switzerland at the end of the 19th century opened up the first rocks for climbing. It is the most important according to the Saxon Switzerland climbing area in Saxony. The most significant climbing peaks are Kelchstein, Jonsdorfer monk, Ernst Schulze- rock, forest gatekeepers and the twins. In 1994 also a climbing wall was opened in the Nonnenfelsen at Jonsdorf after models in the Alps. Followed in 2006 in Oybin below the Big Rock Lane, a second fixed rope.
Attractions
Other attractions in the Zittau Mountains include not only the mountains and surveys in this paragraph " mountains " mentioned:
- Ruined monastery on the mountain Oybin
- Lookout on the high forest
- Kelchstein, mushroom rocks south of Oybin
- Small Organ ( the "Organ "), a rock formation in the Jonsdorfer rock city
- Millstone quarries, rock formations south of Jonsdorf
- Nonnenfelsen, west-southwest of Jonsdorf
- Umgebindehäuser, especially in Walter village, Jonsdorf and Bert village
- Zittau narrow gauge railway, which places Bert Village Hoernitz, Jonsdorf, Olbersdorf, Oybin and connecting Zittau Narrow Gauge Railway