Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A Boofe (plural: Boofen) is local slang for sleeping out overnight in the open under a rock overhang and has a long tradition in Saxon Switzerland. Many young people travel to Saxon Switzerland at weekends in order to boofen. Today it is only permitted by the National Park Authority at designated sites.
Saxon Switzerland National Park (German: Nationalpark Sächsische Schweiz), is a national park in the German Free State of Saxony, near the Saxon capital Dresden.It covers two areas of 93.5 km 2 (36.1 mi 2) in the heart of the German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, which is often called (the) Saxon Switzerland (German: Sächsische Schweiz).
In Saxon about 1,008 or (30.4%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 219 or (6.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 219 who completed tertiary schooling, 53.0% were Swiss men, 32.9% were Swiss women, 9.1% were non-Swiss men and 5.0% were non-Swiss ...
5. Saxon Switzerland National Park. The Saxon Switzerland National Park lies near Dresden in Saxony and is Germany’s only rock national park. The landscape of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, has ...
Königstein Fortress (German: Festung Königstein), the "Saxon Bastille", is a hilltop fortress near Dresden, in Saxon Switzerland, Germany, above the town of Königstein on the left bank of the River Elbe. It is one of the largest hilltop fortifications in Europe and sits atop the table hill of the same name.
Bohemian Switzerland (Czech: České Švýcarsko; German: Böhmische Schweiz), also known as Czech Switzerland, is a nature region in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in the northwestern Czech Republic, protected as a national park. It has been a protected area (as Elbe Sandstone Mountains Protected Landscape Area) since 1972.
It forms part of the northern perimeter of the Bohemian Massif and comprises Saxon Switzerland, the German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and the Zittau Hills, a small section of the Lusatian Mountains on German soil. Because the boundary between the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and the Lusatian Uplands is on Czech territory, the two natural ...
Pages in category "Populated places in Saxon Switzerland" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.