Grillenburg Sandstone, the Elbe sandstone type in the Tharandt Forest, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, Saxony
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There used to be a number of sandstone quarries in the Tharandt Forest and its neighbourhood, not far from Höckendorf (Paulsdorf Heath) and Ruppendorf, near Grillenburg, Niederschöna and Hetzdorf in the state of Saxony.
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).
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Er kam von Böhmen über den Erzgebirgskamm und führte über Sadisdorf, Dippoldiswalde (romanische Nikolaikirche am Friedhof), Berreuth, Höckendorf, den Markgrafenstein, Grillenburg, Spechtshausen, Fördergersdorf, Grumbach, Wilsdruff (einst eines der ältesten Geläute Sachsens mit so genannter Bennoglocke in der Jakobikirche) nach Meißen.
During the Early Modern Period the forest was a hunting ground for the territorial princes (Grillenburg Hunting Lodge) and was also a source of timber and charcoal for mining (charcoal burning) and the residence city of Dresden (timber rafting).