Tharandt Forest

Bust of Heinrich Cotta, sponsor of the Tharandt Forest
View from the Kienberg of Hartha and the Landberg
Porphyrfächer, geological outcrop near Mohorn-Grund
Sandstone faulting near Niederschöna

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 the cities of Freiberg and Dresden. Administratively it is fully part of the borough of Tharandt today and bears a legally-protected strapline[1] 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.

  1. ^ Marken-Nr.: DE 39401066, accessed on 6 June 1995