Altenberg Travel Guide
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Altenberg Overview
Altenberg is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Ore Mountains, close to the border with the Czech Republic, 15 km northwest of Teplice, and 32 km south of Dresden (Dresden vacation rentals | Dresden travel guide). It is home of a bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track that has been in use since 1987.
The municipality is located in the Eastern, its highest point with the Kahlenberg (905 m above sea level) in the municipality is located. Im Gemeindegebiet entspringt die Weißeritz . The municipality is the source of the Weißeritz. While the districts Kipsdorf and Bärenstein in Weißeritztal or Müglitztal to about 400-500 m altitude, for example, lies the village of Falkenhain to about 650-700 m above sea level, the district Zinnwald George-field even at over 800 m height. To town Altenberg includes the 11 districts of the following: Bärenfels, Bärenstein, Falkenhain, Hirschsprung, Kipsdorf, Oberbärenburg, Rehefeld-house fence, Schellerhau, Forest Bear Castle, forest idyll and Zinnwald George Field.
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Things to See in Altenberg
Bell of Peace
and Kurpark (in the district Bärenfels)
Mining Museum Altenberg: The 1957 technical opened museum is housed in an original in the 16th Century mine and is a technically viable Zinnpochwäsche after restoration. It shows, in conjunction with the 180 m long Neubeschert-Glück-Stollen (1802-49 ascended, cleats review since 1971) the path of tin from extraction to processing.
Besucherbergwerk United hybrid field Zinnwald in Zinnwald George Field
Mining Museum Zinnwald: The union of the United Huthaus hybrid field Zinnwald mining museum located since 1983 on the local history and Montanwerke Zinnwald.
Rennschlitten and bobsled: built 1982/83, 1,413 m long, 17 turns, altitude difference 122 m, gradient to 15%; speeds to 130 km / h mobile; venues of Europe and world championships in bobsled, luge and skeleton
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Maps and Driving Directions to Altenberg
Altenberg is situated on the main road 170, the Dresden Zinnwald with Northern Bohemia and Prague links. Since 1923, Altenberg's endpoint is the 38-kilometer Müglitztalbahn, the mountain town by the Müglitztal with Heidenau and connects the upper Elbe valley. The rail line has made a significant contribution to the development of the Old Mountain Ski Center in Osterzgebirge done.
View from the Geisingberg
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Related Sites
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- Homepage of Altenberg: Altenberg (official home page)
- Wikipedia: Altenberg
More about the History of Altenberg
After miners at the southern foot of the Erzgebirge ran out of deposits, they later moved towards Erzgebirgskamm in the 12th century in search of more. Here they discovered the first occurrence to Zinnwald and where Altenberg was founded in around 1440. The local site, the so-called hybrid floor proved over the centuries as the most important Zinnlagerstätte Central. In the immediate vicinity of the city center, numerous small pits were dug. Later in the 1950s, the spa industry expanded, especially after mining decreased significantly after 1991 due to economic reasons.
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