Zittau Mountains

Zittau Mountains (Zittauer Gebirge)
View over Waltersdorf to the Lausche
Highest point
Peak	Lausche
Elevation	792.6 m above NN
Geography
Zittau Mountains (Zittauer Gebirge)
State	Görlitz, Saxony,  Germany
Range coordinates	50°50′56″N 14°38′49″E / 50.84889°N 14.64694°E / 50.84889; 14.64694
Parent range	Lusatian Mountains (cross-border range) and the overarching Saxon Highlands and Uplands (GE)

The Zittau Mountains (German: Zittauer Gebirge, Czech: Žitavské hory), formerly also called the Lusatian Ridge (Lausitzer Kamm), refer to the German part of the Lusatian Mountains that straddle the Saxon-Bohemian border in the extreme southeast of the German state of Saxony.

Geography

Location

The Zittau Mountains lie in the extreme south of the district of

Among the highest mountains in the range are the following (in order of height in m above NN:^[1]

• Lausche (Luž; 792.6 m), German-Czech border mountain, south of Waltersdorf
• Hochwald (Hvozd; 749.5 m), German-Czech border mountain, south-southwest of Oybin
• Jonsberg (652.9 m), east-southeast of Jonsdorf
• Buchberg (651.6 m), west of Jonsdorf
• Scharfenstein
  (569.4 m), east of Oybin, north-northwest of Lückendorf
• Breiteberg (510.1 m), east of Großschönau, south of Hainewalde
• Oybin
  (514.5 m), north of Oybin
• Töpfer
  (582.0 m), northeast of Oybin, south of Olbersdorf

Places of interest

• Oybin
  mountain with castle and monastery ruins
• Mühlsteinbrüche, rock formations in Jonsdorf
• Große Felsengasse ("Great Rock Alley")
• Töpfer
  mountain
• Lausche (792.6m), the highest summit in the Zittau Mountains
• Breiteberg
• Scharfenstein
• Orgel (organ) - a rock formation in the Jonsdorfer Felsenstadt
• mushroom rock
  formation
• Nonnenfelsen ("Nun's Rock") near Jonsdorf
• Zittau Narrow Gauge Railway
• Lusatian timber-frame farmhouses (Umgebindehäuser), especially in Waltersdorf, Jonsdorf and Bertsdorf