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Explore Obercolmnitz
The district Obercolmnitz of Pretzschendorf in Saxony is located in Germany about 113 mi south of Berlin, the country's capital.
If you need a place to sleep, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Dorfhain, Dorfchemnitz, Rechenberg-Bienenmuehle, Halsbrucke and Klipphausen. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 5°C / 41 °F
Morning Temperature | 4°C / 39 °F |
Evening Temperature | 4°C / 40 °F |
Night Temperature | 3°C / 38 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 3% |
Air Humidity | 84% |
Air Pressure | 1010 hPa |
Wind Speed | Fresh Breeze with 14 km/h (9 mph) from East |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Moderate rain |
Monday, 18th of November 2024
1°C (34 °F)
1°C (35 °F)
Snow, fresh breeze, overcast clouds.
Tuesday, 19th of November 2024
7°C (44 °F)
1°C (35 °F)
Rain and snow, strong breeze, overcast clouds.
Wednesday, 20th of November 2024
3°C (37 °F)
0°C (33 °F)
Light snow, fresh breeze, few clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Parkhotel Forsthaus
NEUE HÖHE
Gasthof zum Fürstenthal
Bergschlößchen Waldhotel
Kirchner
Videos from this area
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Dorfhain - Tharadt - 11.10.2008 - Germany - Lancia Delta HPE
Dorfhain - Tharadt - 11.10.2008 - Germany - Lancia Delta HPE.
Sonderzug vom Bw Glauchau mit 01 509 auf Tharandter Rampe
Am 05.04.2014 organisierte die Dampffreunde vom Bw Glauchau in Kooperation mit Flügelradtouristik eine Rundfahrt durch Sachsen und das Nachbarland. Hier sehen wir die Lok 01 509 mit ...
13.04.2014 Sonderzug der UEF auf der Tharandter Rampe
Nach dem Besuch des 6. Dresdner Dampfloktreffens machte sich der Sonderzug der UEF wieder auf Heimreise. Dabei ging es über die Tharandter Rampe. Der Zug mit 01 150 fuhr diesmal auf dem Gegenricht...
52 8079 mit Leerreisezug auf der Tharandter Rampe
Heute brachte 52 8079 den Wagenpark der Sonderfahrt des SVC von gestern zurück nach Chemnitz. Die Aufnahme entstand nahe Dorfhain.
Berliner Dampffreunde auf der Tharandter Rampe
Am 14.09.2013 waren die Berliner Dampffreunde unterwegs zum Heizhausfest in Dresden. Das Video zeigt den Sonderzug auf der Tharandter Rampe nahe Dorfhain. Dabei wird Zuglok 03 1010 durch Nachschub...
Lausitzer Dampflokclub auf der Tharandter Rampe
Die Dampflokfreunde aus Cottbus waren heute ins Erzgebirge unterwegs. 23 1019 erhielt tatkräftige Unterstützung von 118 770, um die Tharandter Rampe zu schaffen. Die Aufnahme entstand nahe ...
Deutschland - Tharandter Wald
Der Tharandter Wald liegt in der Mitte Sachsens, nicht weit von Freital. Das herrliche Waldgebiet eignet sich für schöne Spaziergänge und die Entdeckung der Natur. Genießt die Landidylle...
26.04.2014 Sonderzug aus dem Vogtland auf der Tharandter Rampe
3 schwer arbeitende Maschinen kämpfen sich den Berg bei Tharandt mit 14 Wagen empor. Vorspannlok 01 509, Zuglok 23 1097 und Schublok 118 770.
Vering Immobilien Dresden- Wohnen nahe dem Tharandter Wald
Objektbeschreibung Schauen Sie sich die Fotos an und Sie werden verstehen, weshalb ich hier ins Schwärmen gerade. Wunderschön gelegen, eingebettet in viel Grün, aus einem Bestand von ...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Freiberg (district)
Freiberg is a former district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It was bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the district of Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis, the city of Chemnitz, the districts of Mittweida, Meißen and Weißeritzkreis, and by the Czech Republic.
Wilsdruff transmitter
The transmitter Wilsdruff is a medium wave radio broadcasting facility near Wilsdruff, Germany. Until the nineties there was a transmitter for 1044 kHz with 250 kilowatts transmission power. This was a 153-metre guyed steel tube mast, insulated with respect to ground. Since the mid nineties transmission power is only 20 kilowatts. The new transmitter is in a circular building on which the mast stands. The old transmitter of the fifties is a technical monument.
Freiberg University of Mining and Technology
The Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (usually translated from German as Freiberg University of Mining and Technology or Freiberg Mining Academy, University of Technology and abbreviated TUBAF) is a small German University of Technology with about 6000 students in the city of Freiberg, Saxony.
Freiberg Cathedral
The Freiberg Cathedral or Cathedral of St Mary (German: Dom St. Marien) is a church of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony in Freiberg in Saxony. The term Dom, a German synecdoche used for collegiate churches and cathedrals alike, is often uniformly translated as cathedral into English, even though this church here was a collegiate church, not a cathedral (seat of a bishop).
Nassau, Saxony
Nassau is a small village near Dresden, the capital city of the Free State of Saxony, and located in the Ore Mountains. It is part of the municipality Frauenstein. The church of Nassau holds one of the last organs built by Gottfried Silbermann.
Halsbrücker Esse
Halsbrücker Esse is a smokestack to the north of Halsbrücke near Freiberg. It is also known as Hohe Esse or Halsbrück(e)ner Esse, Esse being an East Central German word for a smokestack. With a height of 140m it was the highest smokestack in the world at its completion and it remains the tallest brick building in Europe and is a technical and industrial historical monument.
Red Weißeritz
The Red Weißeritz is a river in Saxony that drains the eastern Ore Mountains. It is a right tributary of the Weißeritz and is 36.5 km long. The source of the river is near Altenberg at a height of about 787 metres. The river drops through a height of 606 metres as it heads north-west, running through Schmiedeberg, the district town of Dippoldiswalde and ending in Freital where it forms the Weißeritz together with the longer tributary of the Wild Weißeritz.
Wild Weißeritz
The Wild Weißeritz is a river in the Czech Republic and in the German state of Saxony which drains the eastern Ore Mountains. It is the longest tributary of the Weißeritz. The valley of the Wild Weißeritz is almost free of settlements. The Wild Weißeritz runs through Tharandt just some kilometres before it forms the Weißeritz together with the tributary Red Weißeritz in Freital. The river feeds two water reservoirs for drinking water abstraction.
Wurgwitz
Wurgwitz is a district of the Saxon city Freital in Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district.
Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt
The Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt (tr. Forest Botanical Garden of Tharandt; 33.4 hectares), also known as the Sächsisches Landesarboretum (tr. Saxony State Arboretum), is an arboretum maintained by the Dresden University of Technology. It is among the oldest arboreta in the world, and is located at Am Forstgarten 1, Tharandt, Saxony, Germany, and open daily except Friday in the warmer months.
Weißig (Freital)
Weißig is a municipal subdivision of Freital in Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district. It consists of two other villages, Oberweißig and Unterweißig.
Deuben (Freital)
Deuben is a municipal subdivision of Freital in Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district. It consists of two other villages, Niederhäslich and Schweinsdorf.
Somsdorf
Somsdorf is a municipal subdivision of Freital in Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district. It lies in the west of Freital, between the Rote Weißeritz and the Wilde Weißeritz.
Eisenhammer Dorfchemnitz
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 get operational.
Döhlen Basin
The Döhlen Basin is a landscape unit in the German federal state of Saxony, southwest of Dresden. The Döhlen Basin has a length of 22 km and a width of 6 km and lies within the district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge.
Freiberg Mining Field
The Freiberg Mining Field (German: Freiberger Revier or Freiberger Bergbaurevier) is an ore field which, in its widest sense, is located on an ore deposit of precious and non-ferrous metals roughly 35 x 40 kilometres in area in the lower Eastern Ore Mountains in the German Free State of Saxony.
Tharandt Forest
The Tharandt Forest is a landscape in the centre of the German Free State of Saxony and lies southwest of the forest town of Tharandt, south of the town of Wilsdruff, roughly between the cities of Freiberg and Dresden. Administratively it is fully part of the borough of Tharandt today and bears a legally-protected strapline with the text: Tharandter Wald – schönster Wald Sachsens ("Tharandt Forest - Saxony's most beautiful forest"), which goes back to the tourist advertisements of the 1920s.
Colmnitzbach
Colmnitzbach is a river of Saxony, Germany.
Gimmlitz
Gimmlitz is a river of Saxony, Germany.
Pöbelbach
Pöbelbach is a river of Saxony, Germany.
KNOX (candles)
KNOX is the trade mark of the oldest incense manufacturers in Germany. It is based in the little village of Mohorn-Grund in the borough of Wilsdruff and run by the firm of Hermann Zwetz, Chemist's. In 1865 the chemist, whose name the firm now bears, sold the incense candles, known as Räucherkerzchen as a remedy for whooping cough and asthma. Only later were the little candles used for Christmas festivities.
Saxon Mining Office
The Saxon Mining Office is the executive authority for mining rights in the German state of Saxony. It is also responsible for all non-metallic mineral resources on the terrain of the former East Germany.
Freudenstein Castle
Freudenstein Castle is located on the Schloßplatz ("Castle Square") on the edge of the town centre of Freiberg in the German state of Saxony. Its history is closely linked to the House of Wettin. After several connversions the castle is now a stately home with four wings comprising these buildings: the Langes Haus, Neues Haus, Kirchenflügel, Großer Turm und Schmales Haus ("Long House", "New House", "Church Wing", "Great Tower" and "Narrow House").
Christiansdorf (Freiberg)
Christiansdorf, historically spelt Christianesdorph in 1183 and Christianisdorf in 1185, was a forest settlement in the Duchy of Saxony (the present day German state of Saxony) that only existed for a few years, but is credited as being the first place in the Ore Mountains that silver ore was discovered. The little mining settlement in the March of Meissen and was a forerunner of the present town of Freiberg, which itself was founded in the 1160s.
Holy Way
The Holy Way came about as a result of the canonization of Bishop Benno of Meissen. It led from Bohemia to Meissen and ran between Grillenburg and Wilsdruff in the present-day district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge in the opposite direction and parallel with the Saxon St. James' Way (Sächsischen Jakobsweg). Original sections of the route have survived, for example in the Tharandt Forest between Grillenburg and Spechtshausen.