Königstein, en Suisse saxonne (Sächsische Schweiz), est une ville du Land de Saxe (Allemagne), située dans le district de Dresde et plus précisément dans l'arrondissement de Suisse-Saxonne-Monts-Métallifères-de-l'Est. Elle est particulièrement connue à cause de la Forteresse de Königstein, « la Bastille de Saxe ».
Location
0 m
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.
212 m
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.
468 m
Königstein is a station on the Dresden to Děčín line that serves the town of Königstein in the German state of Saxony.
The station is served by the Dresden S-Bahn S1 service. Trains run to Pirna, Dresden and Meißen in one direction, and to Bad Schandau and Schöna in the other direction. The service provides two trains per hour in both directions for most of each day.
1.0 km
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.