Welcome to the National Park Region Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland

Abstract

Together with the national park the landscape conservation area forms the National Park Region. Around here, diverse habitats between the Elbe Valley and the mesas offer animals and plants as well as people room to unfold in the National Park Region. While national parks focus primarily on the dynamic development of nature, landscape conservation areas are devoted to cultural landscapes. These cover an area of almost 540 km2 of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains on both sides of the state border. Some of them have existed in part for more than 60 years. Traditional structures – like meadows and rural settlements – which were created by people over a long time, lay at the centre of conservation and design efforts. Redaktionsschluss: 05/201