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3 unusual facts about Tharandt Forest


Tharandt Forest

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).

Forest glassworks are also discernible near Hetzdorf (Glasergrund) and Hartha (Glasbruch).

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).


Grillenburg Sandstone

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.


see also

Grillenburg

Grillenburg Sandstone, the Elbe sandstone type in the Tharandt Forest, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, Saxony