The Saxon Uplands , Saxon Hills or Ore Mountain Foreland ( German : Erzgebirgsvorland ) is a strip of countryside of about 200 m to 500 m above sea level (NN) high, in the German state of Saxony , that lies immediately north of the German Ore Mountains and runs mainly through the areas of Zwickauer Land , Zwickau , Chemnitzer Land , Chemnitz , Mittelsachsen and the country south of Dresden . It borders on the Upper Pleißeland to the extreme west, the Ore Mountain Basin in the south and the Mulde Loess Hills to the north and east.
8-727: Immediately north of the Western and Central Ore Mountains lie the cities of Zwickau and Chemnitz in the Ore Mountain Basin , whose western extension, the Upper Pleißeland is usually considered part of the basin today. Northeast of Chemnitz a narrow strip of land, the Mulde Loess Hills ( Mulde-Lösshügelland ) is squeezed in between the Dresden Basin ( Elbtalkessel ) and the eastern section of
16-845: Is a natural region that forms the westernmost part of the Ore Mountains in the German state of Saxony . It is also part of the major landscape unit known as the Saxon Highlands and Uplands . It extends eastwards to include the valley of the Schwarzwasser , and, below its mouth, that of the Zwickauer Mulde , and incorporates the western parts of the former major units known as the Lower and Upper Western Ore Mountains ( Unteres und Oberes Westerzgebirge ), no. 423, as well as
24-677: The Ore Mountains/Vogtland Nature Park . The Western Ore Mountains transition gradually towards the (south)west into the "historic" Vogtland region and include several of its villages, whilst the official boundary with the natural region of Vogtland largely follows the watershed between the rivers of the Zwickauer Mulde and, in the extreme south, the Svatava , with the Vogtland river of the White Elster ,
32-529: The Ore Mountains. The Ore Mountains are often divided into the following areas (main units based on Meynen, and, in brackets, the Federal Office for Nature Conservation ( Bundesamt für Naturschutz or BfN ): This Saxony location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Western Ore Mountains The Western Ore Mountains ( German : Westerzgebirge )
40-617: The Southern Slopes of the Ore Mountains ( Südabdachung des Erzgebirges ), no. 420. In the current classification system of natural regions, the Western Ore Mountains only covers the western part of the region that bore the same name in the preceding system, whilst the eastern part of that region is now part of the Central Ore Mountains . The higher regions of the Western Ore Mountains are part of
48-550: The Svatava, officially belongs to the natural region of the Western Ore Mountains. In the south is the highest point on Saxon soil, the Auersberg (1019 m NN), northwest of Johanngeorgenstadt . It is overlooked by the 1,043 m high Blatenský vrch ( Plattenberg ) southeast of the town and on the other side of the international border. The following list includes all the towns and municipalities that lie wholly or partly within
56-529: The central and southern part of this boundary lying somewhat to the east, so that the source regions of the eastern Elster tributaries are still counted as being in the Ore Mountains. The Vysoký kámen ( Hoher Stein ) near Erlbach is the southernmost mountain of the Ore Mountain range. To the north the Western Ore Mountains descend to the gently rolling Ore Mountain Basin and the town of Zwickau , whilst
64-610: The mountain range continues to the south on the far side of the border with the Czech Republic . The state border largely follows the ridgeline of the mountains, which continues southwest on both sides of the border into the Elster Mountains and the natural region of Vogtland. The 805 m high Hoher Brand , which is generally accepted as being in the Elster Mountains range, because it is located southwest of
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