The 140-kilometre-long road, the Silver Road is the first and longest holiday route in the German Free State of Saxony. Against the background of the importance of mining in the history of Saxony, the road links those sights and tourist attractions of the Ore Mountains and its foreland that relate to the centuries-old mining and smelting industries of the region.
Mining altar in St. Anne's Church, Annaberg-Buchholz
Portal in Freiberg
Visitor mine of Markus Semmler Stolln in Bad Schlema
Post milestone at Zwickau, Obertor - start of the Silver Road
Zwickau is, with around 87,500 inhabitants (2020), the fourth-largest city of Saxony, Germany, after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz and it is the seat of the Zwickau District. The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde, and lies in a string of cities sitting in the densely populated foreland of the Elster and Ore Mountains stretching from Plauen in the southwest via Zwickau, Chemnitz and Freiberg to Dresden in the northeast. From 1834 until 1952, Zwickau was the seat of the government of the south-western region of Saxony.
Image: Zwickau Hauptmarkt Panorama
Image: Schloss Osterstein Zwickau
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Image: Zwickau Theatre
