Saxony, Germany · Europe
Zittau is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Mittelherwigsdorf, 33km from Bohemian Switzerland National Park.
Zittau is in Saxony, Germany, with about 25,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Mittelherwigsdorf, about 4 km away.
Zittau (German: [ˈtsɪtaʊ] ; Upper Sorbian: Žitawa [ˈʒitawa] ; Lower Sorbian: Žytawa [ˈʒɨtawa]; Polish: Żytawa [ˈʐɨtava] ; Czech: Žitava; Upper Lusatian dialect: Sitte) is a city in the German state of Saxony, belonging to the district of Görlitz, Germany's easternmost district.
Zittau is located in Upper Lusatia, theRead more
southern part of Lusatia, on the Mandau and Lusatian Neisse rivers, in the foreland of the Zittau Mountains. The city has a population of around 25,000 and is located directly on the western edge of the Turów Coal Mine, one of the largest artificial holes visible from space, on the other side of the Lusatian Neisse.
The Großes Zittauer Fastentuch (Great Zittau Lenten Cloth) is, along with the Bayeux Tapestry, one of the most impressive textile works in Western tradition. It is the third-largest existing Lenten veil. It was made in Zittau in 1472 and is now exhibited in the secularized Kirche zum Heiligen Kreuz, that belongs to the Zittau Municipal Museums, where it is kept in the largest museum display case in the world.
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Within an hour or so of Zittau: Jested Tower (22 km), Panská skála (27 km), Görlitz Old Town (31 km), Bohemian Switzerland National Park (33 km).
The nearest famous roads are Road of a Hundred Bends.
Zittau is in Saxony, Germany, about 4 km from Mittelherwigsdorf.
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ADAC roadside assistance: +49 89 22 22 22. No general speed limit on some autobahn sections but advisory 130 km/h.
Full driving guide for Germany8 notable places within an hour's drive.
scenic viewpoint
A rocket-shaped 1970s hotel and TV tower crowning the 1,012 m summit above Liberec, reached by a twisting mountain road with sweeping views over Bohemia: an icon of Czech modernist architecture.
22 km · about 25 min drive
photogenic
Bohemia's oldest protected geological site (1933): a hillside of hexagonal basalt columns up to 12 m tall arranged like organ pipes, right beside the road at Kamenický Šenov. Famous from the Czech fairy-tale film Three Wishes for Cinderella.
27 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Germany's easternmost city, a stunningly preserved jumble of Gothic, Renaissance and baroque facades nicknamed 'Görliwood'.
31 km · about 35 min drive
national park
A mesmerizing landscape of deep gorges, towering sandstone pillars, and dense forests in the Czech-German borderlands along the Elbe River.
33 km · about 40 min drive
natural wonder
The largest natural sandstone arch in Europe, standing majestically in the heart of Bohemian Switzerland National Park.
37 km · about 45 min drive
natural wonder
Sandstone wonderland in the Czech Republic with Europe's largest natural stone arch and dramatic rock formations.
37 km · about 40 min drive
natural wonder
Largest natural sandstone arch in Europe, the centrepiece of Bohemian Switzerland National Park, walked from car parks at Hrensko or Mezni Louka.
37 km · about 45 min drive
castle
A turreted medieval castle above a reservoir near the German border, full of secret passages and legends.
38 km · about 45 min drive
April to October
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