La forteresse de Königstein (en allemand Festung Königstein) est une forteresse qui occupe les 9,5 hectares d'un promontoire (butte témoin) dominant de 240 mètres la courbe de l'Elbe à 30 km au sud-est de Dresde en Allemagne. Elle a été surnommée la « Bastille de Saxe » car, forteresse militaire, elle a été utilisée de 1591 à 1922 en tant que prison d'État et aussi, notamment durant les deux guerres mondiales, comme camp d'internement pour des officiers prisonniers de guerre.
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Oflag IV-B Koenigstein was a German POW camp for Allied officers during World War II. It was located in Festung Königstein near the town of Königstein in Saxony.
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Königstein Fortress, the "Saxon Bastille", is a hilltop fortress near Dresden, in Saxon Switzerland, Germany, above the town of Königstein on the left bank of the River Elbe. It is one of the largest hilltop fortifications in Europe and sits atop the table hill of the same name.
The 9.5-hectare rock plateau rises 240 metres above the Elbe and has over 50 buildings, some over 400 years old, that bear witness to the military and civilian life in the fortress. The rampart run of the fortress is 1,800 metres long with walls up to 42 metres high and steep sandstone faces. In the centre of the site is a 152.5-metre-deep well, which is the deepest in Saxony and second-deepest well in Europe.
The fortress, which for centuries was used as a state prison, is still intact and is now one of Saxony's foremost tourist attractions, with 700,000 visitors per year.
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Königstein is a town on the river Elbe in Saxony in Germany. Königstein lies in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge District and had a population of 2,089 in 2018. It includes land on both banks of the Elbe, but the centre and most of the town lies to the south of the river. The Königstein Fortress is situated above and to the south-west of the town.
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The Biela or Bělá or Ostrovská Bělá is a river in eastern Germany and northern Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Elbe. The source is near Ostrov hamlet in the municipality of Tisá, in the Bohemian Switzerland, northwest of Děčín. After a few km it crosses into Saxony. The town Königstein is located at the confluence of the Biela with the Elbe.
Toujours intacte, c'est aujourd'hui l'attraction touristique la plus populaire de Saxe, avec 700 000 visiteurs par an.