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Bad Schandau
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Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Saxony
- District
- Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge
- Municipal assoc
- Bad Schandau
- Subdivisions
- core town and 7 villages
- Mayor 2022 29
- Thomas Kunack
- Total
- 46.76 km (18.05 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 146 m (479 ft)
- Density
- 71.56/km (185.3/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Postal codes
- 01812–01814
- Dialling codes
- 035022
- Vehicle registration
- PIR
- Website
- bad-schandau.de
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Bad Schandau ( German: [baːt ˈʃandaʊ] ; Upper Sorbian: Žandow, pronounced [ˈʒandɔf]) is a spa town in Germany, in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district of Saxony. It is situated on the right bank of the Elbe, at the mouth of the valley of the Kirnitzsch and in the area often described as Saxon Switzerland.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bad Schandau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.