Haus am Stein - the middle of Saxon Switzerland

House 2 For 2 people with a separate bedroom 32 square meters. With internet connection - dLAN and WiFi Pets: 2 pets max. Per pet 25, - € extra. To be paid on arrival. Tourist tax per person and night 1, - €. To be paid on arrival. The holiday home is a low-rise building with an entrance area, a sanitary unit, a lounge with cooking facilities and a bedroom. Amenities include radio, satellite TV, shower, IWC and cold running - hot water. In the kitchen you will find all the little things that you need for cooking. The living room offers a cozy stay and is connected to the central heating. The holiday home has a terrace from which you can enjoy a wonderful view to the Lilienstein. A second terrace with outside shower (cold - warm) as well as garden furniture and loungers are available to all our holiday makers in house 1 and 2! In the living lounge is another sofa bed available. At the house there is a parking space for the car. SAXON SWITZERLAND - The summit of Nature Just beyond the gates of Dresden towards the border CSR surprised one of the most unique natural attractions of Germany: the romantic rock formations of the Elbe sandstone, applicable in many parts of the National Park. Bizarre rock pinnacles, reefs and deep gorges alternate with wide plateaus, large, silent forests and charming valleys, over which rise mesas. Embedded in pure nature: the Elbe, on the oldest paddle steamer fleet in the world operates, and many a cozy town. Clear, because vacation is the most natural thing in the world: 1200 km of hiking trails await cozy and sophisticated natures - in dense diversity that is unparalleled, from walking paths to alpinism. Approximately 14,000 (fourteen thousand!) Climbing routes from easy to extremely difficult lead to 1,100 free-standing peaks - as we wish - Bergheil! -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- Castles and Palaces Burg Hohnstein 1353 certified, on a steeply into Polenztal sloping rocks, the former seat of feudal Hohnstein from the 14th century. Century, served as border fortifications and robber barons, kurfürstliches Jagdschloß, administrative headquarters, court, state prison, concentration camp, POW camp, youth now visit site and youth hostel, worth seeing castle building and courtyard (15-16 century..), Bear Garden, torture chamber, memorial Castle Weesenstein founded in 1200, built on the cliff top above Müglitztal, initially to secure the meißnisch- Bohemian trade route and as an outpost against Bohemian neighbor, in the 15th century. Expansion for residential castle, in the 16th Century. Vorburg arises with Renaissance portal, worth stucco, Chinese leather and picture wallpaper, rococo wall paintings and furniture, chapel, Baroque French garden Stolpen Castle in the 12th century. emerged as a border fortress, rises high visible between Elbsandsteingebirge and Lausitz to 35m high basalt dome, over 300 years owned by the Meissner bishops later in electoral owned buildings from local basalt and later sandstone as a building material, in an electoral period mainly prison fate of Countess v. Cosel, significant mistress Elector Augustus the Strong, held from 1716 to 1765 at Burg 1813 demolition of various buildings by Napoleonic troops today: historical museum, numerous sightseeing as courtyards, armory, stables, torture chamber, Kornbauten, Cosel Tower, seven top tower, dungeons, 82m deeply driven in basalt fountains Castle Kuckuckstein Construction started in 1450, in Müglitztal in Liebstadt on rocks in 364m height, repeatedly rebuilt and expanded, reinforcements in the Late Gothic style, to in 20. Century. Family, 1813 night Napoleon, imposing keep, romantic courtyard, hunting, court and Napoleon Room, medieval paintings, Masonic Lodge Baroque garden 1719 created by Count Wackerbarth, 1733 planned by Augustus the Strong as a symmetrical layout and designed according to plans by Knöffel, Languelune and Pöppelmann, Friedrichschlößchen, orangeries, fountains, cascades, pools, sandstone sculptures, hedges, lawns Koenigstein Fortress 1241 first mentioned, important monument of European fortress architecture, sandstone mesa, about 3 drawbridges one arrives at the 245 m above the Elbe lying rock massif, up to 40m high cliffs, varied history of the plant: originally medieval border castle, later expanding to the fortress, state prison, most famous prisoner 1706/07 Johann Friedrich Boettger, the inventor of European porcelain, refuge of the Saxon electors and kings, preserved in art treasures and treasury, destination of the court buildings of the late Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and last year's century, driven in rock 152,5m deep well, elaborate bronze barrels, walk along 2.2 km of fortified walls: comprehensive view over large parts of the Saxon Switzerland