Thürmsdorf

Thürmsdorf is a district of Struppen in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Osterzgebirge in Saxony. Thürmsdorf is a state-recognized spa resort and has the status of a locality within the municipality.

Thürmsdorf is located southeast of the Saxon state capital Dresden in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. The row village spreads out in the valley basin of the Behnabach, which flows through the town in an east-west direction. It is situated in the east of the Struppen plain, left above the valley of the Elbe. The Pehna Waterfall, where the creek plunges into a sandstone rock basin below the edge of the village, has a total drop height of about 20 meters, with approximately 12 meters in one go, making it the highest waterfall in Saxon Switzerland. To the north, the terrain rises to the plateau of the Kleiner Bärenstein, which reaches a height of 338 meters, a typical table mountain for this part of the range. On its southern side lies the Thürmsdorfer Stein, a significant summit in the climbing area of Saxon Switzerland, with 63 climbing routes on its rock face, which is up to 30 meters high. The lowest point of the Thürmsdorfer area is located in its extreme southeast by the Pehnabach, about 200 meters west of where it flows into the Elbe. The lands around Thürmsdorf are mostly used for agriculture, especially the slopes at the edge of the area are forested.

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