Saxony Center
Posted on June 29, 2023 in News
Where is the center of Saxony: the city Nossen, in the landscape of Meissen and the Tharandt forest? And how are they calculated or determined? Due to different calculations give it several centers of Saxony. The geographical center of the State of Saxony within the boundaries of grilling Castle from the spa town of Hartha in the Tharandt forest is probably the most famous Center of Saxony. Heinz Finger, astronomer at the TU Dresden, and Hans Brunner, cartographer from Dresden, the coordinates have calculated in 1990 and 1992. The coordinates are as follows: 50 degrees, 55 minutes, 46.1 seconds of North latitude and 13 degrees, 27 minutes, 30 seconds East longitude. (50 55’46 “N, 13 27’30” O) The values are a calculation of the mean values of the coordinates of the northernmost and southernmost, as well as the easternmost and westernmost point of the country.
In September 1994, the marking in the MDR television show “Maverick leader” carried the former Saxony Interior Minister Heinz Eggert with a granite pillar. By any chance is this Instead the lips Tullian thief Chamber. Many unknowns is there in the life of the lips Tullian, which probably was called Phillip John stone and 1675 in Strasbourg as the son of Imperial lieutenant came to the world. Because of a rural exodus, he arrived in 1702 to Saxony, where he worked up to the leader of the “Black Guard”. This today as “lipps Tullian rocks” in the Tharandt forest well-known rock formation in the Tannichtgrund was regarded as shelter, as well as Chamber of the thief. The Silver Street and churches in the district were main features of the robbers. In 1715, he was beheaded because of his actions with the sword. Due to these sights the gastronomy and hotel industry offers for your guests specialties and arrangements around this topic.
The hotel Portal Saxony offers in in the Erzgebirge and Vogtland, and in Leipzig and Dresden room on the site for excursions and accommodation options. So you can for example in the flair hotel “to the new KLINGENBERG height” in KLINGENBERG the “lips Tullian robber Pfannchen” with the in-house Enjoy Fuhrmann drops. The hotel and guest house “to the new KLINGENBERG height” is also an ideal spot for excursions and hikes and offers various programs and arrangements. The center of the largest geometrical circle which fits within the limits of the free State of Saxony, is located near the monastery of Altzella in Nossen. A further focus is the physical focus in the Nossener Germans Bora. This was determined with the aid of about 60,000 geographic points of the State border. There are several centers of the free State, that invite you to explore. Whether now in the autumn or in the winter months, our home with exciting surprises and information on which to wait.
