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12-684: It is bounded in the south to an extent by the Tharandt Forest . In the west the Freiberger and Zwickauer Mulde merge into the Mulde . The region is characterized by loess deposits from the ice age . On the plains there are virtually no woods. These are to be found exclusively on the valley slopes of the rivers (the Mulde and its headstreams, the Freiberger and Zwickauer Mulde). The Central Saxon Loess Hill Country

24-719: A VdN convalescent home, known as Elsa Fenske , for victims of fascism. The entire forest was a recreation area for many years and was signed by volunteers from the Cultural Association of the GDR who also laid out a nature trail. As a contiguous and easily accessible natural region the Tharandt Forest continues to act as a recreation area for the population of the surrounding area and its visitors. There are educational trails and paths for hiking, riding and cycling. Coaches and sleds are permitted on several routes. The region around

36-524: Is a type of protected area designated in some jurisdictions. In the province of British Columbia , recreation areas are lands set aside for recreational use. These lands are also being evaluated to determine whether the area should be "upgraded" to full protected area status, or returned to integrated resource management lands. In the United States , National Recreation Areas are administered by several different agencies. They typically do not meet

48-488: Is of great importance for agriculture , e.g. for growing vegetables and fruit. This Saxony location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tharandt Forest The Tharandt Forest ( German : Tharandter Wald ) is a landscape in the centre of the German Free State of Saxony and lies southwest of the forest town of Tharandt , south of the town of Wilsdruff , roughly between

60-537: 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 ). The beekeepers and forest keepers (collectively called Zeidler ) that settled in Fördergersdorf and Hartha supplied honey and beeswax. And artificial ponds are still used today to farm fish. In

72-717: The Tharandt Forest has been represented since 1997 by the Tharandt Forest Queen ( Tharandter-Wald-Königin ), a new one being appointed every two years and who is presented and crowned at the traditional choir gathering, the Chortreffen am Tharandter Wald by the Tharandt Forest Tourist Association ( Verkehrs- und Verschönerungsverein "Tharandter Wald" e.V. ). 50°57′32″N 13°29′50″E  /  50.95889°N 13.49722°E  / 50.95889; 13.49722 Recreation area A recreation area

84-412: The cities of Freiberg and Dresden . Administratively it is fully part of the borough of Tharandt today and bears a legally-protected strapline with the text: Tharandter Wald – schönster Wald Sachsens ("Tharandt Forest - Saxony's most beautiful forest"), which goes back to the tourist advertisements of the 1920s. In the 12th century, the village of Warnsdorf existed for a short time in the middle of

96-548: 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 ). Tullian was feared throughout Saxony. His lair is stilled recalled by the Lips Tullian Rocks ( Lips-Tullian-Felsen ) named after him and the old Thieves' Chamber ( Diebskammer ). Around 1800 the forest had been seriously reduced by logging and

108-560: The forest by the water-rich Warnsdorf Spring of the Triebisch river. The foundations of a large Roman site from the 13th century were discovered in the neighbouring village of Grillenburg which, then as now, was completely surrounded by the forest. Several routes run through the forest, including the Princes' or Lords' Way . During the Early Modern Period the forest was a hunting ground for

120-723: The sciences and arts as Heinrich Ernemann and Eva von der Osten , who established their summer residences here. During the Nazi era Saxony's Gauleiter and state huntsmaster, Martin Mutschmann , used the Grillenburg hunting lodge as the headquarters of the Saxon Hunting Court ( Sächsischen Jägerhof ). Its guest house, the Neues Jägerhaus , also used by him and acted during the GDR period as

132-461: The strict guidelines to become national parks . In U.S. state park systems, recreation areas may also fail to meet some criteria to be designated state parks , such as having multiple non-contiguous properties. Size is not necessarily a defining criterion. For instance, in Michigan, the largest state recreation area, Waterloo Recreation Area is 20,500-acre (83 km ) while the smallest state park

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144-516: Was reforested by Johann Heinrich Cotta on scientific principles. The Tharandt Forest thus became a model for the concept of sustainable forest management that was born out of necessity. This resulted in the formation of the forestry academy and the botanical forest gardens in Tharandt. From the 18th century the forest was used as a place of recreation by middle-class families, especially from Dresden. These included such well-known personalities from

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