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Burning plant waste Private vegetable waste should be composted or recycled on the user's own property. If the producers or owners of the waste are not able or do not intend to do so, they must hand over the waste to the disposal company . Burning vegetable waste does not fall within the scope of exceptions under police regulations and therefore cannot be approved as a bonfire. Burning open fires…

Camping, Caravaning & Hostels If you don't like hotels and guesthouses or break the tight holiday budget too quickly, you can fall back on cheap alternatives in Pirna. For nature lovers, Camping Pirna offers the ideal place to stay. Caravan and motorhome pitches are also available here. Motorhome owners who use Pirna as a transit destination also have a public car park with parking spaces directly…

Mills in the Gottleuba Valley and the Pirna fulling mill Numerous water mills have existed along the Gottleuba, which flows from the ridge of the Eastern Ore Mountains to the Elbe, since the Middle Ages. They were mainly used to process grain, vegetable oils and wood. There were also hammer mills and ironworks in the vicinity of the mining town of Berggießhübel. From the 19th century onwards, the…

The Gottlaubatal railway: prehistory, railway construction to Berggießhübel and first years of operation In the course of industrialisation, a dense railway network developed in Saxony between the larger cities and in the direction of neighbouring states following the construction of the first German long-distance railway between Dresden and Leipzig (1839). Pirna gained access to the railway as…

Equalisation and renaturation measures - section between Dresdner Straße and Walkmühlenweg After the tracks of the Gottleuba Valley railway were dismantled in 2002, nature developed largely undisturbed in the area of the railway embankment. Flower-rich ruderal vegetation* as well as hedges, bushes and individual trees such as bramble, field maple and alder established themselves. The area serves…

Floods in the Gottleuba Valley - The tied arch bridge on Walkmühlenweg Floods in the Gottleuba Valley The Gottleuba rises in the ridge area of the Bohemian Eastern Ore Mountains at an altitude of approx. 719 metres and flows into the Elbe in Pirna after almost 34 kilometres at an altitude of approx. 111 metres. The source area of the river is one of the classic flood areas. Heavy rainfall and…

Remscheid Remscheid is one of the largest towns in the Bergisches Land and is also well-known as the “Seestadt auf dem Berge” (the maritime city of the mountains) with a view to the importance of trade and industry. The town started to be called by this name towards the end of the decade before last, as the Remscheid metal and tooling industry traded and still trades with many companies overseas…

High-quality geographic information on Pirna Geo data provide information on objects, terrain and infrastructure to which a certain geographic location on the earth’s surface can be assigned. They describe individual items of a territory and can be linked together using spatial references. Over recent years, it has become increasingly important for high-quality digital geographic information to be…

Towns twinned with Pirna, in Germany and abroad For many years now, Pirna has had active relationships with municipalities in Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Finland, France and Italy. The town is very invested in maintaining and strengthening these relations as they are essential to getting to know other countries and populations, forming friendships and breaking down barriers. What’s more,…