Discover 20 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Ore Mountains/Vogtland Nature Park (Germany). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: German Space Travel Exhibition, Spielzeugmuseum Seiffen, and Eisenhammer Dorfchemnitz. Also, be sure to include Purschenstein Castle in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in Ore Mountains/Vogtland Nature Park (Saxony).
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German Space Travel Exhibition
The German Space Travel Exhibition is a permanent exhibition in the village Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz, Germany. The exhibition is dedicated to Spaceflight and Space exploration.[1]
Address: Bahnhofstraße 4, 08262 Muldenhammer
Spielzeugmuseum Seiffen
Museum. The Ore Mountain Toy Museum in Seiffen is an internationally known museum of Ore Mountain toys and Ore Mountain folk art. It was opened in 1953 in Seiffen. In 1973 it was joined by the Ore Mountains Open-Air Museum, a folk art and local historic museum with 14 houses typical of the Ore Mountains before 1900 on the edge of the toy village.[2]
Address: Hauptstr. 73, 09548 Seiffen
Eisenhammer Dorfchemnitz
Museum in Dorfchemnitz, Germany. Eisenhammer Dorfchemnitz is an historic hammer mill in Dorfchemnitz in the Ore Mountains of Germany. The mill is an important witness to proto-industrial development in the Ore Mountains. Of the once-numerous hammer mills only three others remain working in Saxony apart from the Frohnauer Hammer: the Frohnauer Hammer Mill, the Grünthal Copper Hammer Mill and the Freibergsdorf Hammer Mill.
The mill, which is situated on the Chemnitzbach stream, has been a technology museum since 1969 which, in addition to the actual hammer mill, also has a local history room.[3]
Address: Hauptstraße 11, 09619 Dorfchemnitz
Purschenstein Castle
Also known as: Purschenstein
Castle hotel in Neuhausen, Saxony, Germany. Purschenstein Castle in Neuhausen/Erzgeb. in East Germany was built in the late 12th century, around 1200, probably by Boresch I. The toll and escort castle protected a salt road running from Central Germany to Bohemia. This long-distance trading route, also called the Old Bohemian Track, ran from Leipzig past present-day Neuhausen and over the Deutscheinsiedler Saddle towards Prague. In 2005, the castle was bought by a Dutch businessman. Since then it has been renovated and houses a hotel, the Schlosshotel Purschenstein.[4]
Address: Purschenstein 1, 09544 Neuhausen/Erzgebirge
Scheibenberg
Mountain with basalt columns. Scheibenberg is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany.[5]
Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains
Also known as: Glashüttenmuseum des Erzgebirges
Museum in Neuhausen, Saxony, Germany. The Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains is located in the old socage vault of Purschenstein Castle in Neuhausen/Erzgeb. in the German Free State of Saxony.
The museum displays include a glassworks from the time of Georgius Agricola, as well as a workshop (Werkstattstube) and other writing implements and tools of Ore Mountain glassmakers as well as the history of Neuhausen and Purschenstein Castle. In addition there are demonstrations of glass blowing.[6]
Address: Freiberger Str. 10, 09544 Neuhausen/Erzgebirge
Cranzahl Dam
Also known as: Talsperre Cranzahl
Cranzahl Dam is a dam in the Free State of Saxony in East Germany. It was built from 1949 to 1952 near Sehmatal–Cranzahl and the Bärenstein mountain in the Ore Mountains to supply drinking water to Annaberg-Buchholz and the surrounding area. Together with the Sosa Dam it was one of the two biggest dam construction projects of the newly created GDR. In keeping with the time it was called the Dam of Friendship.
The actual dam itself is a crooked earth-fill dam with a sloping inner seal of loam. It is a large dam based on ICOLD criteria. The streams impounded by it are the Lampertsbach and the Moritzbach.
A trafficable track runs along the dam crest (500 metres). Bathing and water sports in the reservoir are not permitted. However, there is a circular path of 3.5 kilometres for walkers, mountain-bikers and skiers.[7]
St Mary's Church
Also known as: St. Marien
Lutheran church in Marienberg, Germany. St. Mary's Church in Marienberg in the German state of Saxony is an Evangelical-Lutheran church in the southeast of the county of Erzgebirgskreis. It is the most recent of the three Ore Mountain Late Gothic hall churches.[8]
Address: Herzog-Heinrich-Straße 2, 09496 Marienberg
Brückenberg
Mountain in Germany. Brückenberg is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany. With an elevation of 963.8 m above NHN, it is considered one of the highest mountains in Saxon Ore Mountain Range.[9]
Lauterstein Castle
Also known as: Burg Lauterstein
Lauterstein Castle, in German Burg Lauterstein, also called Burgruine Niederlauterstein, is a medieval castle in Niederlauterstein, town of Marienberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony. It has been a ruin since the Thirty Years' War.[10]
Address: Schloßberg 5-7, 09496 Marienberg
Rabenberg
Mountain in Germany. Rabenberg is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany.[11]
Riesenberg
Mountain in Germany. Riesenberg is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany.[12]
Rehhübel
Mountain in Germany. Rehhübel is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany.[13]
Schwartenberg
Mountain in Germany. Schwartenberg is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany.[14]
Katzenstein
Mountain in Germany. The Katzenstein is a mountain in Saxony, southeastern Germany.[15]
Kapellenberg
Mountain in Germany. The Kapellenberg is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany. It is the highest peak of the german part of the Elster Mountains. It is located in the south Saxon Vogtlandkreis, near Schönberg, in close proximity to the Czech border.[16]
Wirtsberg
Mountain in Germany. Wirtsberg is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany.[17]
Adlerfels
Mountain in Germany. Adlerfels is a mountain of Saxony, in southeastern Germany.[18]
Drachenkopf
Mountain in Germany. Drachenkopf bei Nassau is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany.[19]
Morgensternhöhe
Mountain in Germany. Morgensternhöhe is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany.[20]