Ostrau (Bad Schandau)

Ostrau Bad Schandau municipality Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 10 ″  N , 14 ° 10 ′ 30 ″  E
Height :	245 m above sea level NN
Residents :	428  (May 9, 2011)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1934
Postal code :	01814
Area code :	035022
Location of Ostrau in Saxony

Ostrau is a district of the state-approved Kneipp spa town of Bad Schandau in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district .

geography

location

Ostrau is located southeast of the Saxon capital Dresden in Saxon Switzerland and in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains . It is located in the east of the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district in the Saxon Switzerland landscape protection area and is part of the Saxon Switzerland National Park . The Waldhufendorf is located in the east of the city of Bad Schandau. The local situation Ostrau is at 245 m above sea level. NN on the Ostrauer Scheibe , the flatness between the narrow valley of the Elbe 130 m lower in the south, the Kirnitzsch valley in the west and north and the Zahnsgrund in the east. The actual Ostrauer Waldhufenflur, which is largely used for agriculture, comprised 340 hectares. However, the area of ​​the Ostrau district multiplied when a large part of the forest areas of the Upper Saxon Switzerland were added to it, which had previously belonged to the Postelwitz state forest district, an independent estate district outside the municipality.

Corridor area

The eastern border of the district runs through the entire German part of the Großer Zschand , with the armory belonging to the Ottendorfer Flur, which is adjacent to the east and which in turn belongs to the city of Sebnitz . From the confluence of the Großer Zschand into the Kirnitzschtal at the level of the Ottendorfer Neumannmühle , the boundary runs downstream almost to the Tiefer Hahn bus stop along the embankment of the Kirnitzschtalstraße; the river bed of the Kirnitzsch belongs entirely to Ostrau in this approximately two kilometer long section. Since the sawmill Felsenmühle is orographically to the left of the Kirnitzsch, but belongs to Ottendorf, it forms an Ottendorf enclave within Ostraus and an enclave of Sebnitz within Bad Schandau.

From the Lichtenhainer mill to the Bad Schandau location, but with minor exceptions such as in the area of ​​the Lichtenhainer waterfall , where the southern, orographically left-hand side of the valley does not belong to Ostrau, the northern border of the district runs along the Kirnitzsch. The Sebnitz districts of Lichtenhain , Mittelndorf and Altendorf and the corridor of Bad Schandau border this area . The southern border of the district runs along the Elbleiten above Postelwitz and around the Schmilka location (both also districts of Bad Schandau); between Schmilka and the Großer Zschand it is identical to the federal border with the Czech Republic . The corridors of Hřensko (Herrnskretschen) and, to the east of the Prebischtor , of its districts of Mezná (Stimmersdorf) and Mezní Louka (Rainwiese) border there.

Landscape description

In the district of Ostrau are the Great Winterberg , 556  m above sea level. NHN the second highest elevation in Saxon Switzerland, the neighboring Kleine Winterberg , the Rauschenstein , the Winterstein and the Frienstein , the Affensteine with the Bloßstock , the Schrammsteine with the Teufelsturm and the Falkenstein as well as the Hohe Liebe , to name just a few elevations and peaks in the Saxon climbing area To name Switzerland . The Kleine Zschand , the ruins of Wildenstein Castle , the cowshed and the Krinitz grave are also located in the Ostrau district, and the Bad Schandau Luther monument near its westernmost point . The Häntzschelstiege , Rübezahlstiege and Heilige Stiege as well as several sections of the Malerweg run in the area .

Transport infrastructure

The most important street on Ostrauer Flur is the Zahnsgrund – Falkensteinstrasse street, which, as district road 8740, connects Ostrau into the Elbe Valley to federal highway 172 in the section between the center of Bad Schandau and Schmilka. Via this route, Ostrau is also connected to the regional bus network of Saxon Switzerland and Eastern Ore Mountains (RVSOE) . The street Ostrauer Berg leads into the Kirnitzschtal, where the houses on Niederweg and Pflanzgartenweg also belong to Ostrau. The village center and some side streets open up to the center of Ostrau. There are old half-timbered farms , guest houses, holiday homes, the Falkenstein Clinic as a rehabilitation facility , inns and single-family houses. The Ostrauer Ring opens up the Neuschandau villa colony southeast of the town center, which is also located on the Ostrauer Flur and was built on the initiative of the hotelier Rudolf Sendig . A quick connection of Ostrava and Neuschandau to the center of Bad Schandau, the erected in 1904 Elevator Bad Schandau represents. Along the northern border Ostraus in Kirnitzschtal the main road extends 165 (Kirnitzschtalstraße) as the compound of Bad Schandau and Sebnitz, on the western part of the Kirnitzschtalbahn drives .

literature

• Between Sebnitz, Hinterhermsdorf and the Zschirnsteinen (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 2). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 72 ff.

• Arthur Glootz: The Schandauer Chronicle. Bad Schandau 1917

Web links

Commons : Ostrau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ostrau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Districts of Bad Schandau on the city's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population, households, families as well as buildings and apartments on May 9, 2011 according to parts of the municipality. (PDF; 770 KB) In: Kleinräumiges Gemeindeblatt Census 2011. State Statistical Office Saxony , accessed on October 4, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )