Grillenburg Sandstone, the Elbe sandstone type in the Tharandt Forest, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, Saxony
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.
Michal Hieronim Leszczyc-Suminski (Born September 30, 1820 in Ośno - Died 26 May 1898 in Tharandt) was a Polish botanist, painter and art collector.
In the early 18th century in the Tännichtgrund bottom near Naundorf in the Tharandt Forest was the hideaway of the notorious robber, Lips Tullian and his Black Guard (Schwarzen Garde).