Bad Schandau (German: [baːt ˈʃandaʊ] ; Upper Sorbian: Žandow, pronounced [ˈʒandɔf]) is a spa town in Germany, in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district of Saxony. It is situated on the right bank of the Elbe, at the mouth of the valley of the Kirnitzsch and in the area often described as Saxon Switzerland.
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Saxon Switzerland is the largest and one of the best-known rock climbing regions in Germany, located in the Free State of Saxony. The region is largely coterminous with the natural region of the same name, Saxon Switzerland, but extends well beyond the territory of the National Park within it. It includes the western part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and is the oldest non-Alpine rock climbing region in Germany. Its history of climbing dates back to the first ascent in modern times of the Falkenstein by Bad Schandau gymnasts in 1864. Currently, there are over 1,100 peaks with more than 17,000 climbing routes in the Saxon Switzerland area.
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The Bad Schandau Elevator is a passenger truss-tower elevator built in 1904 at Bad Schandau, a spa town in Saxony, Germany. The height of the elevator is 52.6 metres, in an art nouveau-style steel framework tower, which has a diameter of 5.2 metres at the ground and at the door such of 2.5 metres. On the way upward it overcomes a difference in height of 47.76 metres. It functions as an observation tower.
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Bad Schandau station is a minor junction station in Bad Schandau in the German state of Saxony. The station is located on the south bank on the Elbe on the Děčín–Dresden-Neustadt railway and it is also the terminus of the Bautzen–Bad Schandau railway. The town is located on the north side of the river and is connected to the station by a ferry and a road bridge.
Bad Schandau is a frontier station for international traffic between Germany and the Czech Republic. Bad Schandau station is now the only long-distance stop in the touristic area and national park of Saxon Switzerland. It is marketed as a "national park station" by Deutsche Bahn and the municipality of Bad Schandau.
About 1,600 passengers and visitors pass through and 94 trains stop at the station each day.
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Krippen is a railway station in the village of Krippen in the municipality of Bad Schandau, Saxony, Germany. The station was opened with the Königstein–Krippen section of the Děčín–Dresden-Neustadt railway as Schandau station on 9 June 1850. It was renamed Krippen in 1877 when Bad Schandau station opened.
The station is served by the Dresden S-Bahn S1 service from Meißen, Dresden, Heidenau, Pirna to Schöna. There is also a Regionalbahn service every 2 hours from Děčín to Rumburk via Bad Schandau and Sebnitz.
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Kleinhennersdorfer Stein is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany.
